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hundreds of windows. Eight big lights hang
from ... is (well) worth sth/ doing sth: đáng để làm gì
It is well worth a visit.
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President Obama and his wife, Michelle, toured ... Người sở
hữu dinh thự Biltmore ở Bắc Carolina là
George Vanderbilt.
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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Biltmore is huge. It
looks...
...
distance in fact, from India. As soon as lessons are over you must make
each other's acquaintance."
The pupils bowed ceremoniously, and Sara made a little curtsy, and then
they...
... with a carriage and a pony
and a maid, and a voyage from India to discuss, was not an ordinary
acquaintance.
"My name's Ermengarde St. John," she answered.
"Mine is Sara Crewe," ... remembered them, she
did not understand them. So it was natural that, having made Sara's
acquaintance, she should sit and stare at her with profound admiration.
"You can speak French, ... voice,
"You areclever, aren't you?"
Sara looked out of the window into the dingy square, where the sparrows
were hopping and twittering on the wet, iron railings and the sooty branches...
... hall, wondering if she ought to go into the room,
because she had recently begun a friendly acquaintance with Lottie and
might be able to quiet her. When Miss Minchin came out and saw her,...
... replied to the letter asking her
if the doll would be an acceptable present, Sara had been very quaint.
"I am getting very old," she wrote; "you see, I shall never live to have ... present, and she thought she could guess whom it came from. She opened
it quite tenderly. It was a square pincushion, made of not quite clean red
flannel, and black pins had been stuck carefully ...
secrets changed hands, particularly if the younger pupils behaved themselves
well, and did not squabble or run about noisily, which it must be confessed
they usually did. When they made an uproar...
...
outgrown frock whose shortness showed so much thin black leg.
Ermengarde was too slow a girl to be equal to such a situation. She could not
think of anything to say. She knew what had happened, but,...
... them," said Sara. "I was at first but I am not
now."
"Was it a ghost?" quaked Ermengarde.
she had never known the existence of, until she reached the attic floor. There ... left her seat on the battered footstool in
a great hurry. A large rat was sitting up on his hind quarters and sniffing the
air in an interested manner. Some of Lottie's crumbs had dropped ... gnome that Sara
was rather fascinated. He looked at her with his bright eyes, as if he were
and quarrelled with each other fiercely until one pecked the other and drove
him away. The garret window...
... to catch glimpses of rooms before the shutters were closed.
There were several families in the square in which Miss Minchin lived, with
which she had become quite familiar in a way of her own. ... it would be so nice to see it propped open someday and a head
and shoulders rising out of the square aperture.
"If it looked a nice head," she thought, "I might begin by saying, ... anyone but under servants would sleep there."
One morning, on turning the corner of the square after a visit to the grocer's,
the butcher's, and the baker's, she saw, to...
... books, and she would devour them and end by
knowing them by heart. She might be trusted to be equal to teaching a good
deal in the course of a few years. This was what would happen: when she ... mistress, were
insolent and ordered her about, she would hold her head erect and reply to
them with a quaint civility which often made them stare at her.
on to Ram Dass's shoulder and sat there ... to look.
THE LITTLE PRINCESS
Chapter 11
11. Ram Dass
There were fine sunsets even in the square, sometimes. One could only see
parts of them, however, between the chimneys and over the...
...
world, and if you began to refurnish all the attics in this square, there would
still remain all the attics in all the other squares and streets to put in order.
And there you are!"
Mr. ... way of this particular subject.
pleasure to the afternoons when they were allowed to cross the square and
make their well-behaved little visits to him. They were extremely decorous
little visits ... Large Family, after he had heard
this description, "I wonder how many of the attics in this square are like that
She would go away, feeling quite comforted and a little warmer herself. Her...
... was so much alarmed and
mystified that he scuttled back to his hole and hid there, and really quaked
and trembled as he peeped out furtively and with great caution to watch what
was going ... I should be overeating myself if I went on like this."
It was dark when she reached the square where the Select Seminary was
situated. The lights in the houses were all lighted. The blinds ... always send her out on errands on the
horridest days and nights there are."
Sara crossed the square to Miss Minchin's area steps, feeling faint and shaky.
"I wonder who the little...
... was so much alarmed and
mystified that he scuttled back to his hole and hid there, and really quaked
and trembled as he peeped out furtively and with great caution to watch what
was going...