... top ofthe house, the
picture ofDorianGray grew older every year. The terrible
face showed the dark secrets of his life. The heavy mouth, the
yellow skin, the cruel eyes - these told the ... passed, the face in thepicture grew slowly more terrible.
The Pictureof
Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
retold by
Jill Nevile
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1989
The PictureofDorianGray
of my life. ... intelligent, of course, but with
The PictureofDorianGray
Dorian stood and listened. He could hear nothing —
only the drip, drip of blood onto the floor.
The Hand of a Killer
again. The murdered...
... and hung them over the side. ey
talked to each other across the theatre, and shared their or-
anges with the tawdry painted girls who sat by them. Some
women were laughing in the pit; their voices ... of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowa-
days. ey have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty
that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable.
ey feed the ... one charm of
the past is that it is the past. But women never know when
the curtain has fallen. ey always want a sixth act, and as
soon as the interest ofthe play is entirely over they propose...
... women."
THE VALLEY OFTHE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 11
The horses, resting frequently and lathered by the work, had climbed the steep
grade ofthe old road to Moraga Valley, and on the ... childhood
the talk by the pioneer women ofthe courtesy and attendance ofthe caballeros of
the Spanish-California days.
Sunset greeted them when, after a wide circle to the east and south, they ... share of their wages. He was so handsome and
so quiet and soft-spoken. And he had the nicest eyes and the softest, cleanest
hands. I can see them now. He played with me sometimes, in the afternoon,...
... because ofthe dependence of their trades on the other
tied-up trade's, that odd jobs at common labor were hard to obtain. Billy
minutes he was the worst wreck they ever hauled to the receivin' ... ofthe public
and broke the strikes. But the healthy beating up of a scab, he contended the
"throwing ofthe fear of God into a scab," as he expressed it was the only right
and proper ... know."
One ofthe stablemen who had not gone out, Henderson by name, worked at Billy's
stables. Despite the urging ofthe bosses to eat and sleep in the stable like the other
men, Henderson...
... Interpreting the early evolution
of the angiosperms is contentious, partly because of
the paucity of fossilized flowers prior to the period of
radiation, and also because ofthe apparent rapidity
of the ... matching of fig and fig wasp traits. For ex-
ample, the sensory receptors ofthe wasp respond only
to the volatile chemicals of its host fig, and the size and
morphology ofthe guarding scales ofthe ... outside the country of
introduction and, in the former case, always in quaran-
tine. The results of these tests will determine whether
the regulatory authorities approve the importation of
the agents...
... regu-
late the transcription of genes located on the two sides
of the /11 cI-cro intergenic region. Furthermore, the
information gathered in the present study may prove
useful in the construction of ... involved in the dimerization of LexA CTD were
also present in the CTD of /11 CI (data not shown).
The CTDs of two /11 CI monomers may therefore be
responsible for the formation of a dimeric /11 CI ... homol-
ogy over the entire length ofthe k repressor. Interest-
ingly, although the sequences ofthe C-terminal ends of
the above S. aureus phage repressors are identical, the
sequences of their N-terminal...
... flow on the
direction of atom movement is opposite to theofthe island is fixed. Therefore, the growth causes
the electric field to decrease at the area around theeffect ofthe decrease ofthe potential ... into the mechanism of island formationbetween the STM tip and the sample could occur.
The appearance ofthe large pit at the place ofthe with the STM. At a constant tunneling current
mode of STM ... function ofthe tunneling current.
The tunneling current dependence ofthe rate has a maximum at 0.3 nA, and the decrease ofthe rate at tunneling
currents above 0.3 nA was related to the effect of...
...
of the lignocellulosic biomass, and the fermentation ofthe sugars, all occurring in
one step (Hogsett et al. 1992). The relatively lower tolerance ofthe ethanol is the
main disadvantage of ... Depending on the type and concentration ofthe sub-
strates, cellulase enzyme could be used in the hydrolysis (7–33 FPU/g substrate). The
adsorption ofthe cellulase enzymes onto the surface ofthe cellulose, ... ethanol conversion of 90% ofthe theoretical yield (Nguyen 1998).
The degradation ofthe lignocellulosic structure often requires two steps, rst, the
prehydrolysis in which the hemicellulose...
... was reported that the superconducting properties of these
materials are affected with increase ofthe amount of doping, regardless ofthe nature ofthe
dopants. The repression of superconductivity ... used as the organic or
inorganic binder. The addition of several % these binders to the slurry improves the forming
performance ofthe green body and the homogenization properties ofthe sintered ... to study the Figure of
merit ofthe ceramic superconductors.
One ofthe important thermomagnetic transport quantities is the electrothermal conductivity
and is shown to be one ofthe powerful...
... sources.
The quality ofthe radiograph is affected by the source to film distance
– the greater this is the sharper the image; the size ofthe radiation source
– the smaller the source the sharper the ... result in the beam being reflected away
from the receiver and lost – remember the analogy ofthe torch and the
mirror .The probe angle should be selected to optimise the reflection of the
sound ... quality control tool to determine the quality ofthe work. The extent
of NDE depends upon the application and the criticality ofthe joint and is
generally specified in the relevant application standards...
... severity ofthe spill.
The purpose of contingency plans is to coordinate all aspects ofthe response to
an oil spill. This includes stopping the flow of oil, containing the oil, and cleaning
it up. The ... serious. As the
seriousness of an incident is often not known in the initial phases, one ofthe first
priorities is to determine the magnitude ofthe spill and its potential impact.
Alerting the first ... contingency plan for this phase ofthe operation and the importance
of a high level of training in first response.
Stopping the flow of oil is a priority in the first phase ofthe operation, although
response...