as the inspector said and other stories oxford bookworms

... was wearing black clothes. His mask was the face of a dead man. Yes, it was a death mask, but it was the colour of that mask that made everyone shake with horror. The mask was red. It was the ... but I answered their questions easily. Then, on the fourth day, the police came. I was not worried when they searched the house. They asked me to come with them as they searched. They looked everywhere, ... to hide the body in one of the walls of the cellar. It was quite an old building, near the river, so the walls of the cellar were quite wet and the plaster was soft. There was new plaster on...

Ngày tải lên: 14/10/2013, 17:11

... scores of cases—in reality, they are innumerable—where they have killed, now a child in its mother's womb, asserting positively that the mother could not give birth to it (when the mother could ... that it was the noblest and highest occupation in the world. But when this expected feeling came at last, and I, a man, abandoned myself to it, the lie was pierced through and through. Theoretically ... in this task by the doctor, and she will suffer as she does suffer. "So it was with my wife. Whether there was one child or five, the feeling remained the same. In fact, it was a little...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 09:20

... They had two sons and Wilde wrote a book of stories for the boys. The book was called The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Three of the stories in this book are taken from there. The other ... to them and threw himself down and kissed his mother’s feet. ‘Mother,’ he said, ‘I was proud and unkind. Now please forgive me and take me as your son.’ He held out his hands and touched the ... at them. Now they were a king and queen. The queen said, ‘This is your father. You helped him when he was the sick man.’ And the king said, ‘This is your mother.’ Then they kissed him and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 15:47

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... grabbed the stick with the noose on the end. He caught the snake's head in the noose. Then he threw the snake into the iron safe and closed the door. The metal door clanged shut. 8 The Speckled ... dead on the floor. Near the window, his wife was sitting with her head against the wall. One side of her face was red with blood. The window was shut and the room was full of smoke and the smell ... if there was a place near Ridling Thorpe Manor that was called Elrige's. If there was, then I knew that this was where the writer of the messages was staying.' Inspector Martin and...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 12:15

... touching it. The other car passed us and the driver blew his horn wildly. It reached the lorry - and then the lorry turned towards it. For a moment I thought that the car was going to pass the lorry ... it was moving very fast. Then the front of the lorry just touched the back of the car. It was only a light touch, but it knocked the car towards the side of the road and the woman at the table. ... the Yucatan The Dream and Other Stories Language in use Loок at the sentence on the right. Then report these words from the story. 1. 'You can have half the money,' said Mr Beaseley....

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 15:51

... while the canaries in the dining-room chirped their hardest, exasperated by the hissing of the smouldering mint. I was fatherless and motherless, and my aunt spoiled me. She placed the whole ... amount. Exhausted and sleepy, I came out into the fresh air, and sat down on a mound. It was a splendid, The Jew and Other Stories 40 ‘Where’s he going?’ ‘To the Caucasus, and taking his young ... Fustov, on the way home with The Jew and Other Stories 2 calm morning; the long lines of our fortifications were lost in the mist; I gazed till I was weary, and then began to doze where I was sitting....

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... suit and waited the maddening few minutes it took the lock to recycle. As soon as pressure was equalized she slid open the outer door and ran up the ramp. There was no sign of her father on the ... another’s arms. Sex was their favorite pastime, and who could blame them? They went about it as if their lives depended on the next coupling. That was biology at work, he supposed—but if it was ... was breaking all the gray land- scape into particles, no piece of the moon connected to any other piece, and all of it was dead. The voices of the other searchers calling to each other sounded in...

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... of the room to the other, on which baby-clothes and a pair of big black trousers are hanging. There is a big patch of green on the ceiling from the ikon lamp, and the baby-clothes and the ... mistress, who has come to feed the baby, and is standing in the middle of the room. While the stout, broad-shouldered woman nurses the child and soothes it, Varka stands looking at her and waiting ... she shakes her head, rocks the cradle, and murmurs her song. The green patch and the shadows from the trousers and the baby- clothes move up and down, nod to her, and soon take possession of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 14:13

... too. His father‟s pain subsided, and the car moved once again toward the Flushing Y pool. They said nothing. Once at the Y, his father parked the car. They walked inside together. As their paths ... for his country. Now he was forgetful, weak, and unwilling to give away the little time he knew was left to him. AFTERLIFE AND OTHER STORIES AFTERLIFE AND OTHER STORIES He hoped that ... It was not that the boy minded distance. In fact, distance was his forte. He had the stamina and determination to handle the strain. He was not as good at sprints, though. The boy lacked the...

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