... that stuff There was the population of all cities in it, and the way to tell a girl's age, and the number of teeth a camel has It told you the longest tunnel in the world, the number of the stars, ... May be it belonged to the class of rhymes they call figurative They offend law and order, but they get sent through the mails on the grounds that they mean something that they don't say I'd be ... tabulated, and compiled from nature by Herkimer Idaho and the other gay Lutherans of the town got every minute of the rest of the week that they could I never imagined that Idaho was trying to work...
Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15
... brother with a Curtis bullet in him on the bank of the lake at Cibolo And then the Kiowa Indians made their last raid upon the ranches between the Frio and the Rio Grande, and Truesdell at the ... sounds to be heard at the store were the rattling of the tin spoons and the gurgling intake of the juicy fruits by the cowpunchers, the stamping of the grazing ponies, and the singing of a doleful ... miles away they saw a faint cloud dimming the green ripples of the mesquites In twenty minutes they heard the clatter of the horses' hoofs: in five minutes more the grey plugs dashed out of the thicket,...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15
LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Higher Pragmatism
... you want the dime back in advance ?" said he I handed him a dollar "The dime," said I, "was the price of listening to your story." "Right on the point of the jaw," said he "Go on." And then, incredible ... jaw," said he "Go on." And then, incredible as it may seem to the lovers in the world who confide their sorrows only to the night wind and the gibbous moon, I laid bare my secret to that wreck of ... her beauty and dignity, the great sway she had in society, and the magnificence of her life as the elder daughter of an ancient race whose pride overbalanced the dollars of the city's millionaires...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15
LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Hypotheses Of Failure
... a hypothetical case?" suggested Lawyer Gooch "That's the word I was after 'Apothecary' was the best shot I could make at it in my mind The hypo- thetical goes I'll state the case Suppose there's ... up a magazine The lawyer returned to the middle office, carefully closing behind him the connecting door "Show the lady in, Archibald," he said to the office boy, who was awaiting the order A tall ... hus- band and wife, and brought them together again Let us drop the hypothetical case I need conceal no longer that it is I who am the sufferer in this sad affair -the names you shall have Thomas...
Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15
LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- The Indian Summer Of Dry Valley
... into the house, got his whip, and charged the marauders The lash curled about the legs of the nearest a greedy ten-year-old before they knew they were discovered His screech gave warning; and the ... Old? He would show them By the next mail went an order to San Antonio for an outfit of the latest clothes, colours and styles and prices no object The next day went the recipe for the hair restorer ... even of the boys They accepted him as a decided damper, for his attempts at sportiveness were so forced that they might as well have essayed their games in a cathedral Neither he nor any other could...
Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15
LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Last Leaf
... sleeping when they went upstairs Sue pulled the shade down to the window-sill, and motioned Behrman into the other room In there they peered out the window fearfully at the ivy vine Then they looked ... to its stem against the wall And then, with the coming of the night the north wind was again loosed, while the rain still beat against the windows and pattered down from the low Dutch eaves When ... and then "ten," and "nine"; and then "eight" and "seven", almost together Sue look solicitously out of the window What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15
LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- The Marry Month Of May
... pansies The breeze brought their odour into the room Immediately there was a well-contested round between the breath of the flowers and the able and active effluvium from gout liniment The liniment ... Cologne she withstood the attack of the ethereal mildness The arrows of the pleasant sunshine fell back, frostbitten, from the cold panoply of her unthrilled bosom The odour of the flowers waked ... waist, sir And the ivy all leaved out on the side of the house, and the hand-organs playing, and the children dancing on the sidewalk 'tis a great time for speaking out what's in the heart You...
Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15
LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Missing Chord
... For other sounds a shrill family of coyotes yapped beyond the shearing-pen, and whippoorwills twittered in the long grass But even these dissonances hardly rippled the clear torrent of the mocking-birds' ... you see kids doing with their Christmas toys "When I came in from the pasture, Marilla was in the room where the piano was I could see by the strings and woolsacks on the floor that she had had ... uncle Ben and his wife were going to stay there a few days with her "That night Marilla takes me in the room where the piano was, while the others were out on the gallery "'Come here, Rush,' says...
Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Moment Of Victory doc
... on the clean collars we brought along inside the sweat-bands of our hats-in short, a room to fix up in just like they have everywhere at high-toned doings A little farther down the hall was the ... line knew that the North by itself couldn't whip a whole country the size of Spain So the Yankees commenced to holler for help, and the Johnny Rebs answered the call 'We're coming, Father William, ... William, a hundred thousand strong and then some,' was the way they sang it And the old party lines drawn by Sherman's march and the Kuklux and nine-cent cotton and the Jim Crow street-car ordinances...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- The Princess And The Puma docx
... struck the White Horse Crossing of the Nueces From there to his own camp it was sixteen miles To the Espinosa ranch it was twelve Givens was tired He decided to pass the night at the Crossing There ... saw the crouching form of the Mexican lion His amber eyeballs glared hungrily; six feet from them was the tip of the tail stretched straight, like a pointer's His hind-quarters rocked with the ... Yes; there was even admiration in her gaze now After all, there was a hero rising out of the ruins of the anti-climax The look on Givens's face would have secured him a high position in the S.P.C.A...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- The Ransom Of Red Chief pdf
... concluded the thing was square I slid down the tree, got the note, slipped along the fence till I struck the woods, and was back at the cave in another half an hour I opened the note, got near the ... on the road to Poplar Cove, there are three large trees about a hundred yards apart, close to the fence of the wheat field on the right-hand side At the bottom of the fence-post, opposite the ... tiptoe to the mouth of the cave to rubber for the scouts of the hated paleface Now and then he would let out a war-whoop that made Old Hank the Trapper shiver That boy had Bill terrorized from the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Red Roses Of Tonia doc
... against the dust, the fair aggregation would then merrily jog the ten miles to Cactus, where on the morrow they would array themselves, subjugate man, homage to Easter, ... glance But to the unintelligent gaze of the cowpuncher and the sheepman they seemed fresh from the mint of contemporaneous April The hats were of a variety once known as "cart-wheels." They were ... thongs; and the other became part of Road Runner's burden They shouted thanks and farewells to Uncle Tommy, and cantered back into the night on the home stretch The horsemen jockeyed with all their...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -THE REFORMATION OF CALLIOPE doc
... passed their retreat, and then peppered him from the rear In another moment they were reinforced by the marshal and his other men, and then Calliope felt that in order to successfully prolong the ... near the close of a long life, and epitomised the experience of the world Still the man to whom she spoke gazed above her head, contemplating the silent son of the old mother "What does the marshal ... tufts of wool spurted from the marshal's trustworthy bulwark The return shots from the posse pattered against the window frame of the fort No loss resulted on either side The marshal was too deeply...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Rose Of Dixie ppt
... the Northern minions their belief that no genius or good could exist in the brains and hearts of the people whose property they had destroyed and whose rights they had curtailed Offices for the ... furnished in the second floor of the First National Bank building; and it was for the colonel to cause The Rose of Dixie to blossom and flourish or to wilt in the balmy air of the land of flowers The ... effect it has on the circulation I believe that by printing the best stuff we can get in the North, South, East, or West we can make the magazine go You have there the letter from the owning company...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- The Rubber Plant''''s Story doc
... watch the numbers of the automobiles in the street and the dates on the labels inside at the same time Well, then the angel that was molting for the musical comedy lost his last feather and the ... now and then I don't suppose there's another green thing in New York that sees as much of gay life unless it's the chartreuse or the sprigs of parsley around the dish When the girl opens the door ... and, besides leaning out the window and flirting with the iceman, she never did a thing toward breaking the monotony When the couple broke up they left me with the rest of their goods at a second-hand...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- The Snow Man ppt
... passes the time That, m'sieu', is wot the women are for pass the time! Entertainment like the music, like the wine! "They appeal to the mood, the caprice, the temperamen' To play with thees woman, ... but I feared the drift Even now through the endless, bottomless rift in the hills the speaking tube of the four winds came roaring the voice of the proprietor to the little room on the top floor ... covers the wheat fields, swelling the crop and the Flour Trust gets us by the throat like a sudden quinsy It spreads the tail of its white kirtle over the red seams of the rugged north and the Alaskan...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -The Sparrows In Madison Square pptx
... Square almost by the time the sparrows were awake Their melodious chirping, the benignant spring foliage of the noble trees and the clean, fragrant grass reminded me so potently of the old farm I ... over my pad with scarcely a rest Then I went to the little room I had rented for two days, and there I cut it to half, and then mailed it, white-hot, to the Sun The next morning I was up by daylight ... look at them!" As I spoke I picked up a dead tree branch that lay by the bench, and hurled it with all my force into a close congregation of the sparrows on the grass The flock flew to the trees...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Theory And The Hound doc
... and that is about all the touch Ratona gets with the world The Pajaro paused at the mouth of the harbour, roll ing heavily in the swell that sent the whitecaps racing beyond the smooth water inside ... near the tail of his political party's procession The music of the band wagon sounded very faintly to him in the distance The plums of office went to others Bridger's share of the spoils the ... above the line of palms on the low "joint" the two black funnels of the fruiter slowly creeping toward the mouth of the harbour You must know that Ratona is an island twenty miles off the south...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Third Ingredient The ppt
... for she saw him leaning out of the front window at the other end of the hall She hurried there He was shouting to some one below The noise of the street overpowered the sound of her footsteps She ... itself She took the young man's arm and pointed with her other hand to the door of her room "Little Brother," she said, "go in there The little fool you fished out of the river is there waiting ... such a sight "And then some men in blue clothes came around; and he gave them his card, and I heard him tell them he had seen me drop my purse on the edge of the boat outside the rail, and in...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15
Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Whirligig Of Life doc
... ease) into the muzzle of the rifle "Now I reckon you kin be goin' along," said the robber The Justice lingered not on his way The next day came the little red bull, drawing the cart to the office ... twilight dimmed its lines Then he lit the tallow candle on his table, and read until the moon rose, marking the time for supper He lived in the double log cabin on the slope near the girdled poplar ... "and spend the night." He climbed into the cart on one side, and Ariela climbed in on the other Obeying the flap of his rope, the little red bull slowly came around on a tack, and the cart crawled...
Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15