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...Villette; she thus applies for and is offered a job teaching conversational English at a girls' school, albeit in Germany rather than France. Pointed Roofs describes her year abroad, as she endeavors to make her way in the hotbed of seething female personalities that populate the school, overseen by her employer, the formidable Fraulein. Richardson is adroit at conveying n...

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...rth Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoulders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the grassy road that ta...

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...on. The springlike trans- parent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A ... ...ts struck her in the face: it was the first snow falling over Hamblin. The roofs of the lonely village were only half a mile ahead, and she was resolv... ...white patches in the rough grass on the roadside, and in the angles of the roofs facing north. It was a poor bleak village under the granite flank of ... ...built of logs and rough boards, with tin stove-pipes sticking out of their roofs. The sun was setting, and dusk had already fallen on the lower world,... ...y in wintry shadow; but in the plain be- yond the sun was touching village roofs and steeples, and gild- ing the haze of smoke over far-off invisible ... ...as on the fifth floor, and its broad window of plate glass looked over the roofs of the town. Beyond them stretched a wooded landscape in which the la... ... 133 Edith Wharton no one enter. The moon was setting beyond the opposite roofs, and in the darkness outlined against the grey square of the window, ...

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...Excerpt: Kennedy is a country doctor, and lives in Colebrook, on the shores of Eastbay. The high ground rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds the quaint High Street against the wall which defends it from the sea. Beyond the sea-wall there curves for miles in a vast and regular sweep the barren beach of shingle, with the village of Br...

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..., on the shores of Eastbay. The high ground rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds the quaint High Street against the wall whi...

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... Pole every Christmas Eve, where he lives with the elves and Mrs Claus, in his sleigh pulled by his team of faithful reindeer and lands softly on the roofs of houses and then magically jumps down the chimneys (or climbs through the window) to leave presents for good little girls and boys.'...

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...ling from my mouth, splashing in the sink and getting on my jeans. The TV says the winds have pulled trees from the ground and flipped over cars, and roofs of houses have been torn off. They advise people to stay indoors if they can. There is too much danger outside in these harsh conditions, they say, and then a commercial comes on about ten dollar oil changes at Jiffy Lu...

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...Excerpt: Enoch Arden. Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf In cluster; then a moulder?d church; and higher A long street climbs to one tall-tower?d mill; And high in heaven behind it a gray down With Danish barrows; and a hazelwood, By autumn nutters haunte...

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...have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf In cluster; then a moulder’d church; and higher ... ...t not Averill, had he will’d it so, Somewhere beneath his own low range of roofs, 24 Tennyson Have also set his many-shielded tree? There was an A yl... ... comfort and an open hand of help, A splendid presence flattering the poor roofs Revered as theirs, but kindlier than themselves To ailing wife or wai...

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..., weaving symmetric forms. And soon these forms began turning to walls and roofs, domes and towers, high narrow windows, gates bound with fine metal c... ... and kicked fiercely back. A moment later the shell exploded amid the grey roofs of the town. And the rumble swiftly returned, as if to report on the ... ...sun was sinking down toward the horizon, starting to turn red, bathing the roofs of the town in bloody brilliance, setting fiery reflections to every ...

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...ous smoke of cooked food (grilled pork and chicken) trapped between canopy roofs and sidewalk. His reprieve and liberation was only in comics borrowed... ... opened like a coffin. In it was a large golden pen that gleamed like the roofs of a Buddhist temple. Minutes passed. She continued to exhibit the p... ...d across the canal were row houses of tiny wooden cabin shacks with metal roofs that housed residents and their scavenging businesses. The four of t...

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...were now rebuilt in the valley beyond the city. Most of them consisted of mud huts with thatched roofs but a group of them were situated well away f... ... first, he cried every night for his parents and his sleep was disturbed by nightmares of falling roofs and the dark hole in which he lay until the ...

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...ing and summoning them, “To you, o men, I call.” 5) Bet has a shape of two roofs and one line that connects them. one roof points up, toward the heav...

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..., shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burnt incense unto all the host of heaven, and have p...

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...oor; but blighted by an intolerable monotony of miles and miles of graceless, characterless brick houses, black iron railings, stony pavements, slaty roofs, and respectably ill dressed or disreputably poorly dressed people, quite accustomed to the place, and mostly plodding about somebody else?s work, which they would not do if they themselves could help it. The little ene...

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... character- less brick houses, black iron railings, stony pavements, slaty roofs, and respectably ill dressed or disreputably poorly dressed people, q...

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...ropped away briefly and Morris saw that the wagon was moving along on a road about 400 feet above a town with narrow streets and Chinese-style pagoda roofs. Some of the buildings were demolished and others were in flame. “That is Sam Neua, the actual town,” the third passenger informed. “Where was the camp then?” “Place called Xanthon. Just a few miles away.” “The dama...

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...same speed. Twice the flocks covered the sun and our town darkened, tiled roofs turning grey. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 51 There were murmurs... I r... ...O, sea rover, fight... P VOICES FROM THE PAST 114 The storm split roofs and hurled boats ashore, uprooting trees, damaging walls. Slowly, t... ...d we walked home, arms around each other, gulls over us, shadows skimming roofs, dusty cobbles asking for rain: I wanted to remember her chatter, ea...

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...inly on dirt roads, passed the makeshift slum houses--some with driftwood roofs, some with corrugated plastic and some with corrugated metal roofs. T... ... monsoon season would soon visit with the vengeance of Shiva and the solid roofs would offer some protection from the sheets of water that the gods w...

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.... Before, there were only about 100 houses, almost all of them with grass roofs, there were only a few small roofs made of concrete tiles. We didn't ... ...e. In the past, houses used to be a little like the Thai style house, with roofs like in temples. I don't think Thai style houses will disappear. Ther... ...ll the village houses were still pillar houses (No. 1), and most had grass roofs. In 1985, of the questionnaire respondents' own houses in Ban Srii Mu... ...illars. The roof was made of grass, as it is cool in the hot season; grass roofs are still used in many workshop premises, such as smithies. Upper-cl... ...es. Upper-class houses used to have multi-paned, curved, so-called dragon roofs, like those still seen today on temples, and they were also construct... ...mants of the plains villages remember well the old bamboo huts with grass roofs in which people lived in their youth. The villages were surrounded by... ...atus of the families according to whether their houses had grass or tiled roofs, and how many threshing baskets were stored under the house. For peo... ...rmanent. And they were not really houses, but small bamboo huts with grass roofs. Later on, people built permanent houses from timber. Getting food us...

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...same speed. Twice the flocks covered the sun and our town darkened, tiled roofs turning grey. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 55 There were murmurs... I r... ...O, sea rover, fight... P VOICES FROM THE PAST 118 The storm split roofs and hurled boats ashore, uprooting trees, damaging walls. Slowly, t... ...d we walked home, arms around each other, gulls over us, shadows skimming roofs, dusty cobbles asking for rain: I wanted to remember her chatter, ea... ... street, as Francesco spoke to me. Cold, very cold, even for April. Tiled roofs were choked with rain. Drowned cobbles. Leaves and mud. But there h... ... the big table. Storms hunkered over the roof tops, the sun licked at the roofs, snow bundled them, and I was cold, cold. Smoke puffed from chimneys... ... tears in my eyes I attempted to eat: tears of many kinds crushed me. The roofs, the cold, the sorrow, how they come back to me! The anguish in my si...

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... of neglect. The demon smirked at the peeling paint, corrugated, red iron roofs in need of repair. This spelt a non-committed neighbourhood, which r... ...those built in craters; most are easy to spot, as all have corrugated red roofs in need of repair. At the end of the street, which incidentally becom... ... house and every child on the block thinking there were monsters on their roofs that sounded like cows and roosters. Late Thursday afternoon, Stella ...