8. Prosy – proosaline - …was not quite so prosy as he liked to … 9. Pantry – sahver - …as he went to the pantry. 10. Flustered – pabinas - Yesterday he had been too flustered… 11. Kettle – kann - …put on the kettle… 12. Dwarf – päkapikk - It was a dwarf… 13. Depredations – laastamistöö - …the depredations of dragons… 14. Morsel – suutäis - …for his after-supper morsel. 15. Throng – rahvamass- Throng! 16. Bewildered – hämmingus - …altogether bewildered and bewuthered… 17. Jerk – jõnks - … pulled open the door with a jerk… 18. Haughty – upsakas - Thorin indeed was very haughty,… 19. Frowning – kulmu kortsutamine - …and stopped frowning. 20. Parlour – külalistetuba - …small tables into the parlour… 21.
Bella notices that Edward is measuring her reactions, clearly hoping to find her afraid or disgusted by what she sees. But instead of being afraid, Bella reaches out and runs her fingers through Jacob's fur. She is surprised by how it is both rough and soft. Suddenly Jacob licks her across her entire face, laughing and jumping out of the way when she yells and smacks at him playfully in response. Both vampires and werewolves, and especially Edward, are all shocked and bewildered by the encounter. The wolves leave, but Jacob stays behind. Jacob speaks to Edward through his mind, eventually turning back into his human form to openly discuss Bella's safety during the newborn battle. Edward is reluctant to involve Jacob initially, but is pleasantly surprised by the ideas Jacob presents. They agree to work together, making a plan to mask the scent of Bella's trail with Jacob's. They decide to place Seth Clearwater with Bella in hiding, using
sallow (203) Of an unhealthy yellowish color. Albertine describes Dot after pregnancy. Her skin was loose, sallow, and draped like upholstery fabric over her bones. to weld (206) - To bring into close association or union. When Albertine misses Dot, the days were like welded seamlessly to one another and taking the mind away. addled (208) Make unable to think clearly; confuse. After visiting Dot, Gerry looked bewildered, silly and a little addled with what he saw. warped (218) - strange and unpleasant. June haunts Gordie. Gordie escapes from the house, drives a car and then pulls it over to catch his senses. His mind lit in warped hope on another bottle. He thought that another bottle would straighten him out. a crowbar (221) - A straight bar of iron or steel, with the working end shaped like a chisel and often slightly bent and forked, used as a lever.
This narrative of the Crucifixition is even more forceful and the death is also a victory. Using the old language of heroic poetry, The Cross represents itself as the loyal follower of a lord who inexplicably wills his own death. In a normal battle to obey your leader's command is to help defend his life, but for this follower it is to serve his lord's absolute will for death by remaining rigidly upright (to stand fast). The Cross speaks for the bewildered humanity of the dreamer, but also for the suffering humanity of Christ. The Cross himself participates in Christ's sufferings and it can also participate in his glory. After the Crucifixion he is first buried and then raised up and honored (like Christ). The vision has come full circle and now the dreamer can also hope to participate, as one ordinary tree has done, in that victory. The poem ends in a mood of confidence
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl (1916-1990) The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight - hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her, two tall glasses, soda water, whiskey. Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket. Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come him (correction: home) from work. Now and again she would glance up at the clock, but without anxiety, merely to please herself with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer the time when he would come. There was a slow smiling air about her, and about everything she did. The drop of a head as she bent over her sewing was curiously tranquil. Her skin - for this was her sixth month with child - had acquired a wonderful translucent quality, the mouth was soft, and the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger darker than before. When the clock said ten minutes to five, she began to listen, and a...
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Character List Paul Bäumer - A young German soldier fighting in the trenches during World War I. Paul is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. He is, at heart, a kind, compas-sionate, and sensitive young man, but the brutal expe-rience of warfare teaches him to detach himself from his feelings. His account of the war is a bitter invective against sentimental, romantic ideals of warfare. Read an in-depth analysis of Paul Bäumer. Stanislaus Katczinsky - A soldier belonging to Paul's company and Paul's best friend in the army. Kat, as he is known, is forty years old at the beginning of the novel and has a family at home. He is a resourceful, inventive man and always finds food, clothing, and blankets whenever he and his friends need them. Albert Kropp - One of Paul's classmates who serves with Paul in the Second Company. An intelligent, speculative young man, Kropp is one of Paul...
1 I take after my mum 2 1 disorientated 5 withdrawn 7 granted 12 Although 2 the spitting image 2 distraught 6 preoccupied 3 a strong family resemblance 4 1 F 2 T 3 F 4 F 5 T 3 bewildered 7 circumspect between 4 overwhelmed 5 1 ignore 4 lot of my dad's traits 3 1 f hindsight 4 c evocative 5 comes to, more in common 2 broadened out 2 a recall 5 b recollection 6 she's passed on to me 3 a shred
I looked away quickly, shocked, going red again. I stumbled over a book in the walkway and had to catch myself on the edge of a table. The girl sitting there giggled. I'd noticed that his eyes were black -- coal black. Mr. Banner signed my slip and handed me a book with no nonsense about introductions. I could tell we were going to get along. Of course, he had no choice but to send me to the one open seat in the middle of the room. I kept my eyes down as I went to sit by him, bewildered by the antagonistic stare he'd given me. I didn't look up as I set my book on the table and took my seat, but I saw his posture change from the corner of my eye. He was leaning away from me, sitting on the extreme edge of his chair and averting his face like he smelled something bad. Inconspicuously, I sniffed my hair. It smelled like strawberries, the scent of my favorite shampoo. It seemed an innocent enough odor. I let my hair fall over my right
Native officials of the Ethiopian Red Cross had decided to send the money to help the victims of that year's earthquakes in Mexico City. It is both a personal bane and a professional blessing that whenever I am confused by some aspect of human behavior, I feel driven to investigate further. In this instance, I was able to track down a fuller account of the story. Fortu- nately, a journalist who had been as bewildered as I by the Ethiopians' actions had asked for an explanation. The answer he received offered eloquent valida- tion of the reciprocity rule: Despite the enormous needs prevailing in Ethiopia, the money was being sent to Mexico because, in 1935, Mexico had sent aid to Ethiopia when it was invaded by Italy ("Ethiopian Red Cross," 1985). So informed, I remained awed, but I was no longer puzzled. The need to reciprocate had tran-
"In North America," he began, "childhood sexual abuse is experienced by one in every four women and one in every six men. Take a good look around you. Someone at your table is either a survivor or knows someone who is. That's the unacceptable truth." I was riveted. Gideon was a consummate orator, his vibrant baritone mesmerizing. But it was the topic, which hit so close to home, and his passionate and sometimes shocking way of discussing it, that moved me. I began to thaw, my bewildered fury and damaged self-confidence subverted by wonder. My view of him shifted, altering as I became simply another individual in a rapt audience. He wasn't the man who'd so recently hurt my feelings; he was just a skilled speaker discussing a subject that was deeply important to me. When he finished, I stood and applauded, catching both him and myself by surprise. But others quickly joined me in the standing ovation and I heard the buzz of conversations around me,
make it out, but I hardly know what I have written." Without allowing herself time for consideration, and scarcely knowing what she felt, Elizabeth on finishing this letter instantly seized the other, and opening it with the utmost impatience, read as follows: it had been written a day later than the conclusion of the first. "By this time, my dearest sister, you have received my hurried letter; I wish this may be more intelligible, but though not confined for time, my head is so bewildered that I cannot answer for being coherent. Dearest Lizzy, I hardly know what I would write, but I have bad news for you, and it cannot be delayed. Imprudent as the marriage between Mr. Wickham and our poor Lydia would be, we are now anxious to be assured it has taken place, for there is but too much reason to fear they are not gone to Scotland. Colonel Forster came yesterday, having left Brighton the day before, not many hours after the express. Though Lydia's short letter to Mrs. F
Cora M u n r o . T h e plot of Honeymoon in Vegas revolves around a similar rivalry between the hapless hero ( N i c o l a s C a g e ) and his gambler opponent (James C a a n ) . 138 T E S T S , ALLIES, ENEMIES N E W RULES T h e new rules of the Special W o r l d must be learned quickly by the hero and the audience. As Dorothy enters the land of Oz, she is bewildered when Glinda the Good asks, "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" In Dorothy's Ordinary W o r l d of Kansas, there are only bad witches, but in the Special W o r l d of Oz, witches can also be good, and fly in pink bubbles instead of on broomsticks. Another Test of the hero is how quickly she can adjust to the new rules o f the Special World. At this stage a Western may impose certain conditions on people entering a town or a bar
rejected the solution. The excitement simmered down. Newbold went back to continue his solutions; other scholars weighed his conclusions. In 1926, Newbold died. But his working notes, his solutions, and the chapters for the book that he had projected were faithfully edited by his friend and colleague Roland Grubb Kent. In 1928, they were published as The Cipher of Roger Bacon. An important French philosopher, fitienne Gilson, later one of the 40 "immortals" of the Academic Francaise, though bewildered by the method, accepted the results; a French specialist in Bacon, Raoul Carton, enthusiastically endorsed both method and results. American and British historians of medieval science were cooler. In 1931, Manly, who had studied the Newbold method in detail, concluded that it "is open to objections of so grave a character as to make it impossible to accept the results." Warning that these results "threaten to falsify, to no unimportant degree, the history of human
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