Scarcely a breath of air disturbed the stillness of the day.

There was scarcely a breath of wind.

A bubble of anger rose in Pol’s throat.

It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers.

She opened her mouth, and out came a constellation of gorgeous sounds.

In his portrait, Donlevy is a fine figure of a man.

She felt a flame of anger flicker and grow.

I set off for work with a light heart.

A litter of notes, papers, and textbooks were strewn on the desk.

A mantle of snow lay on the trees.

The area is enveloped in a pall of neglect.

Just thinking about the future plunged her into a pit of despair.

The treaty hung like a sword of Damocles over French politics.

The world is a vale of tears, a giant ball of dung.
We all know what next occurred-and here we all are, in this vale of tears.

In that dream he saw a vision of loveliness: himself as Foreign Secretary.

Should any fellow be passing by, he must refuse their invitation or else they will dance him to a watery grave.

She abandoned herself to grief.

Jo sensed fear and jealousy all about her.

He bid her adieu.

Many girls fell in love with him but could only admire him from afar.

Since Lisa has no family and virtually no friends, she becomes obsessed with tracking down her secret admirer.

Yet the Master's mind reached out afar.

The evening sky was still aglow.
Linda’s face was aglow with happiness.

In addition, parish priests were feeling the pinch through reduced income from alms and tithes.

After their diet of the last few days, anything would taste like ambrosia.

He sat amid the trees.

Leaving her amour with strict instructions on how to find her, she retired to bed and waited.

See you anon.

There was food aplenty.

The second appellation is somewhat more surprising.

His eyes appraised her face.

It was gone from view within seconds, swallowed up by the stark arboreal sanctuary.

Anne had to be aroused from a deep sleep.

She came in arrayed in all her finery.
The town was nothing more than a handful of buildings arrayed on either side of the highway.

The mountains are the most arresting feature of the glen.

The storm outside gave the room a sinister aspect.

The noises and smells of the market assaulted her senses.

Nothing could assuage his guilt.

If the momentum picks up, conventional politics could be torn asunder.

At first blush, this sounds like good news.

The search will resume at first light tomorrow.

It is an augury of the politics of fast change in the future.

Light streamed from him, and his hair became a golden aureole about his narrow skull.

He wanted to avenge his brother’s death.

The gesture awoke an unexpected flood of tenderness towards her.

There is a monument to those who fell - men, women, children, babes in arms and the aged.

The sea made a splendid backdrop to the garden.

He even developed a nice line in badinage with the unusually genial Labour leader, Mr Neil Kinnock.

Rusty looked out with a baleful eye from the front page.

A drive through the countryside is balm for a weary soul.

They tried to banish the memory from their minds.

I can be a bard, a philosopher, an actor.

Almost every hill is crowned with a picture-perfect little walled village.

She was deaf to his pleas.

The date was engraved on his heart.

The men were garbed in Army uniforms.

May flies and caddis flies were on the wing.

The tops of the mountains were shrouded in mist.

She was possessed of a fine and original mind.

Their defences are proof against most weapons.

He was very sensible of the difficult situation she was in.

The grassy hills were sheathed in mist.

The bottom was sheathed with a brass alloy called Muntz metal.

His face was a study in fear.

She was suffused with happiness.

His voice was touched with the faintest of Italian accents.

The mountains were wreathed in mist.

His plump face was wreathed in smiles.

The education program offers a beacon of hope to these children.

The wedding guests arrived, bearing gifts.
The sound of music was borne along on the wind.

Oh the shops are brimming with beauteous treasures.

He was the most beautiful creature Dot had ever seen.
Drank five margaritas and waxed poetic about my screenplay to some adorable creature.

The ballroom was bedecked with flowers for the reception.

We prayed that no harm should befall them.

Why should he beggar himself for you?

The beauty of the garden was a pleasure to behold.

The whole of her being had been taken over by a desire to return to her homeland.

In front of the bejewelled image was a large box for offerings.

He never recovered from the death of his beloved daughter.

Between the world wars major unions suffered the searing experience of high unemployment which owed much to incompetent employers and benighted policy-makers.

Each commander began to beseech his immediate superior for reinforcements.

Those data bespeak a movement without a compelling product to sell.

Until recently, Camille would have responded to a rebuke with a display of bestial ferocity.

There was nothing so boring, she thought, as some one who was continually bewailing her lot.

She went to her chamber and used every art she knew to make herself beautiful beyond compare.

Patrick visibly blanched.

Linda leapt to her feet, her dark eyes blazing with anger.

However, the sites are usually near a buttress or a fallen bole.

Furthermore inside his organization his prescience produced bonds of intense devotion and trust.

Since the age of 13, he had been in bondage.

She hadn't deserved their kindness, their good wishes - she'd hardly been a boon companion of late.

I was beginning to think of the bordello.

Drury harboured bitterness in his bosom.

It is now that man contemplates, for it is now that the sea is a bosom friend.
There was less arguing after that, but the two actors never became bosom buddies and never worked together again.
The first was affection of the kind that binds families together, or bosom pals.

Beyond the budding boughs I could see the edge of its shadow drawing its veil aside.

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you.

Beneath the leafy bowers the golden subjects of the Everqueen dance and sing.

In the blue light of the morning he breathed his last.

At the worst possible moment a brigand named Babbitt raided the shore of Philadelphia from a commandeered ship.

I bring it forth closed and immediately hide it under the coverlet.

And they must be conducted with confidence and brio.

His brow furrowed. ‘I don’t understand, ’ he said.

Today the bucolic beauty of the region hides a deeply entrenched and long-standing poverty.

I was weary of being buffeted by life.

She had buried her husband, two sons, and a daughter.

He was also gaunt and cadaverous, and as dark as the Semitic people of the Holy Land.

At last I felt free from my cares.

His hands gently caressed her body.
Waves caressed the shore.
He observed naughtily, subtly, wittily, passively, on occasion with a feline caress.

‘Goodbye, ’ carolled Boris happily.

He says he will have time enough to relax and carouse when he's had a smash hit with his first novel.

The whole garden was carpeted with daffodils.

The flames cast dancing shadows on the walls.
She cast an anguished look at Guy.
Sparks leapt as he cast more wood on the fire.
Memet should, in her opinion, be cast into prison.
Sage leaves have a silvery cast.

The allegations cast a cloud over the mayor’s visit.

Her father’s illness cast a shadow over the wedding celebrations.

When Henry became king, he cast aside all his former friends.

She could not bear to see him so miserable and cast down.

His family had cast him off without a penny.

Cast your mind back to your first day at school.

God has cast out the demons from your soul.

A body had been cast up on the rocks.

Do these eruptions act as a safety valve or will they lead to a cataclysm?

Its cavernous classrooms became silent in 1977 when the school closed.

She chanced to be passing when I came out of the house.

He was the changeling of the classic tale, thrust on good people, who was to repay good with evil.

Some people said that he was one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived; others claimed he was a charlatan.

Out of the gloom emerge the later paintings, charnel house visions of desolation.

The anger in his face chilled her.

Soaked to the skin and chilled to the marrow of her bones, she shivered uncontrollably.

What had brought on this fit of choler?

He was a choleric, ill-tempered man.

She felt hot, despite being clad only in a thin cotton dress.

She looked embarrassed, but then her face cleared.

The wooden door had been cleft in two.

His fist cleft the air.

Creatures born in the rugged environments of arctic climes must deal with the unpredictable variations that nature is always throwing at them.

I was awakened before cockcrow by the sound of distant rifles.

Five minutes later found me flinching and clenching. biting into the black vinyl of the couch as cold steel penetrated.

Her eyes suddenly met his and she coloured slightly.

It came to pass that they had a son.

A wave of tiredness came upon her.

Perhaps she was never glamorous, nor did she care for make-up, but she was deliciously plump and comely.

They sat together in companionable silence.

She was scared by the depression which threatened to consume her.

They were portrayed as contemptible cowards.

Claudio was easily caught in her web of coquetry and lies.

The demeanour of a virgin can be converted into that of a coquette.

Secondly, it is often argued that farm workers are compensated for their low wages by a cornucopia of payments in kind.

All colour drained from her countenance.

The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.

Tears coursed down his cheeks.
His smile sent waves of excitement coursing through her.

His crabbed handwriting covered both sides of the page.

Rachel crimsoned and sat down.

They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.

Hundreds of men were cut down by crossbow fire.

His mockery frightened her and cut her to the bone.
1, cut (sb.) to the quick (vt.)
The answer cut him to the quick.

A piercing shriek cut through the silence.

It's reasonable to hope a wife could manage to overlook a casual, brief dalliance.

Pink and white balloons danced in the wind.

The statue was dappled with light from a stained-glass window.

Tom darted a terrified glance over his shoulder at his pursuers.

Her worried frown deepened.
The twilight deepened.

He tenderly can deflower a virgin, endlessly pursue a stunning model and still have time for a few other dalliances.

‘Deliver us from evil, ’ she prayed.

They disappeared into the neighbouring dell.

And what makes it such an invigorating saga is his ability to let his idiosyncratic Broadway denizens talk for themselves.

Total silence descended on the room.

David was desolated by his wife’s death.

It will at least keep us out of some bigger devilment.

Her body had been almost entirely devoured by the disease.

Andronikos also found a diadem, a corselet, helmet and spears, a tripod and metal bowls.

Blake often stretches concepts with contentious boundaries into diaphanous holdalls.

Isaac was old and his eyes were dim.

The modern decor strikes a discordant note in this old building.

Cars drew up to disgorge a wedding party.

Knowing him very well, I know that he would not rise just to dissemble.
She had, as far as he knew, no reason to be curious, and therefore no reason to dissemble her curiosity.

Somehow, the children had divined that he was lying.

The King held dominion over a vast area.

But the women of Zurich donned armour, marched to the Lindenhof and manned the battlements.

In committee she was a doughty and sometimes intimidating fighter.

They dwelt in the forest.

Buddha taught that earthly existence is full of suffering.

She had long ebony hair.

‘You bet, ’ she said, echoing his words.

Without iridescent blue eye shadow, an effulgent outfit or a hair-sprayed coif, she looks normal.

The attack was planned and led with great élan.

He spoke of her in elegiac tones.

This is because we have withheld from them the full elixir of life.

They have forgotten who they are, knowing only that they have been trapped by an evil enchanter.

One major factor, of course, was that the possible alternatives seemed enfeebled and lacking in conviction.

I was entranced by the sweetness of her voice.

A small laugh escaped her.
Holman let a weary sigh escape from his lips.

Those included hitting Carbonell, the first escapee to be caught.

This perception strikes one as promising, but the impression may be evanescent.

Duckham is a much more hapless figure: rather a constrained Everyman, almost a bore in fact.

After a few whiskies he started to expand a little.

Ophelia expires in Act IV of Hamlet.

He sits forlorn on horse-munched hay while his thoughts run on distant, fabled gold.

No false word ever falls from his lips.

She fell on the food as if she hadn’t eaten for days.
Some of the older boys fell on him and broke his glasses.

Her resistance only fanned his desire.

She fancied she heard a noise downstairs.
This is not a flight of fancy.

She dreamed of flying away to exotic faraway places.

Women weave scarves that are sold in far-off countries.
Could it be that one far-off day intelligent computers will speculate about their own lost origins?

We stood on a rock, fast by the river.

Ishmael and Queequeg become fast friends.

Up there, amid mountain fastnesses, its waters are sweet.

The grin vanished like magic, her whole body stiffening in antipathy as her eyes locked with fathomless brown ones.

Not a term I would use myself, since I do not find it particularly felicitous.

As an only child myself, I had a fellow feeling for Laura.

The guests arrived in all their finery.

We set out at first light the next day.

Rachel fixed him with an icy stare.

Erica’s cheeks flamed with anger.
A great fire flamed in an open fireplace.

Flames licked the darkening sky.

Janet’s blue eyes flashed with anger.

She turned, all flaxen and pink and white, haloed by the naked light bulbs round the mirror.

Atalanta was good with a bow and fleet of foot.

Duvall gave him a flinty stare.

But the political field is inscribed with the logic of friend and foe.

Lee went to her and folded her in his arms.

She sat reading her paper, looking for all the world as if nothing had happened.

I will love you for evermore.

He decided to forbear from interfering.

That means you are a magical person. The gods smile on twins.

There I was always effortlessly top of the class and almost totally friendless.

The guard looked at us with a frigid stare.

At last the fury of the storm lessened.

The swimmer finally gained the river bank.

Now, at seventeen, I could gambol in the forbidden delights of Elysium with no one tugging at my hand.

I think a boyish, childlike figure - that of the gamine - was the one he preferred aesthetically.

The tree was garlanded with strings of coloured lights.

Storm clouds were gathering so we hurried home.

The autumn sun gilded the lake.

He glanced briefly about him before continuing along the scattered fringe of trees that girdled it.

He says you give no quarter.

Once he saw a glade, a secret place with a floor of pale, sandy soil.

The sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock.

There was no mistaking the mocking glitter in his eyes.

He peered into the gathering gloom.

March went out with high winds and rain.

She said goodbye and went her way.
I can take you – I’m going your way.

I’d go to the ends of the earth to be with him.

He likes movies with plenty of blood and gore.

The king was determined not to let Scotland slip from his grasp.

But my wife is great with child!

But I don't understand Grecian code.

King George V had been very grieved at the outbreak of the Great War.

There was rime on his beard, making him appear grizzled and old.

The door opened with a groan.

The candles had almost guttered out, needing to be replaced, but the dim light was an unexpected blessing.

The post-merger period amounted to halcyon days for Hook Harris.

The hapless passengers were stranded at the airport for three days.

I happened on the restaurant by chance.

We go to any lengths to avoid such a happenstance in baseball.

These birds are considered to be harbingers of doom.

McAllister wanted to go in and do something, anything, to stop such a harpy from hurting him.

There was uncertainty in his voice, though, and later Theresa hearkened to this.

Though there were undercurrents here, I was absorbed by the sense of family, the polished details of hearth and home.

A few moments later a large ship hove into view.

Above all, they worked the tides, using those heaven-sent moving roads of water to help them on their way.

But I felt myself being picked up and swept heavenward.

The apple trees were heavy with fruit.

O'Hara rode on, heedless of danger.

As for Jamie, he saw her as nothing but a helpmate for Katherine and a nursemaid for Patrick.

He is reduced to wooing her with honeyed words on behalf of his handsome but tongue-tied young friend.

They ran government trading at Salomon Brothers during the 1980s and early 1990s, ruling with swagger, bravado and hubris.

The nation was hungering for change.

He hungrily kissed her mouth.

Female speaker Atalanta was a mythical huntress and athlete.

This rural idyll is, however, the privilege of the minority.

The cash will be handed to Belfast's Industrial Development Board, which backed his ill-fated car firm.

Hawkins had an ill-starred career in football, with one injury after another.

In my wildest imaginings, I could not have foreseen what a wonderful life lay before me.

The sight of Joe’s dead body was imprinted on his mind forever.

He drove through the countryside in the dead of night.

According to the Bible, man was made in the image of God.

But the demon which had driven him to drink that night, after months of abstinence, had him in its thrall.

We have a congress that is in thrall to special interest groups.

He lay, inert, in his bed.

She was desperately trying to calm the inferno raging within her.

I stared out into the inky blackness of the night.

He fell to the ground, insensible.

In 1951, some nesting burrows, occupied, were found on islets near Castle Roads.

A low grunt issued forth from his throat.

Smoke issued from the factory chimneys.

Rooks cawed and tumbled about the ivied trees.

The novel is an account of his spiritual journey.
They left the town and journeyed south.

Our music is a joyous celebration of life.

The tables were laden with food.

Their journey took them to many foreign lands.

He greeted Charles with a languid wave of his hand.
We spent a languid afternoon by the pool.

He laid about his attackers with a stick.

Brenda leaped the gate and ran across the field.
My heart leaped when I saw Paul at the airport.

A sign above the door bore the legend ‘Patience is a Virtue’.

‘I don’t agree, ’ she said at length.

His leonine aspect and the mischievous twinkle in his eye made his appearance as arresting as his personality.

She turned away from the window lest anyone see them.
She worried lest he should tell someone what had happened.

For if a libertine knows he can indulge himself with impunity, he will throw all cautions to the winds.

Soon the flames were licking at the curtains.

Anton’s lifeless body was found floating in the lake.

There was a murderous light in his eyes.

Young played the game like a man possessed.

Sobbing and screaming, she thrashed about like a woman possessed.

Black shapes now appear against the limpid sky on the horizons!

He stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel, from whose lofty heights he could see across New York.

After a week of feeling lovelorn and dreamy he decided to contact her.

He died in the desert like so many other luckless explorers.

She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal.

The moonlight gave everything a strange luminescence.

The unfortunate animal was maddened with pain.

She made as if to speak but then stopped.

Dillinger handcuffed the deputy to the desk and made good his escape.

This is really a kind of malapropism.

Not only was it gaudy in appearance but the smell wafting from the kitchen was distinctly malodorous.

He was a man of substance.

This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone, but is no more than a few metres thick at most.

It all happened many moons ago.

In terms of occupations, at least three-quarters of the tonnage was owned by merchants, mariners or persons connected in other ways with shipping.

We were dazzled by the matchless beauty of Antarctica.

She walked briskly through the mean and dirty streets.

Otto had measureless charm.

The melancholic king and his lustful comic consort are out of love, but not so Peter and Emilia.

Would they melt into each other's arms?

Closing her eyes, she melted into his embrace.

On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites.

The fire soon began to burn merrily.

Her eyes sparkled with merriment.

He marched off, whistling a merry tune.

Once that's settled, you can afford to indulge in a little merrymaking.

She had felt trapped by the old mesh of loyalty and shame.

He looked up at me through a miasma of cigarette smoke.
The miasma of defeat hung over them.

Parker was a career State Department official, tall, balding, with a cautious, academic mien.

We laboured mightily to rebuild the walls.

The cannon explodes with a mighty crack.

His eyes were a pale milky blue.

Her body began to shake with mirth.

‘Now it’s your turn, ’ he said with a mirthless grin.

The political fallout from his misadventure has been compared in the London press to that experienced by Sen.

Neil Kinnock has been sent three Tyler missives and responded, albeit in plain prose.

He paused, his eyes growing misty.

They could hear the wind moaning in the trees.

Graham was more than a little frightened by what he had seen.

The patient was moribund by the time the doctor arrived.

Over the stream let vapors are borne, waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.

Both gods and mortal men found her captivating.
Next in order came a few mortals so excellent in their art that they almost equaled the divine performers.

Politically, Mr Ashdown is a mountebank, not a moralist.

Clamoring multitudes demanded a view of the pope.

She turned on her heel and vanished into the murk.

One arm went round his neck, her fingers tangling in the silky hair at his nape.

He gave a negligent shrug.

A cavalier attitude to purdah was one thing; for a woman to be seen exposing her nether regions quite another.

Winter draws nigh.

She was rich and nobly born and powerful.

It was not, of course, merely the noisome aspect which needed to be dealt with.

It was impossible to work in the heat of the noonday sun.

The old corner drugstore is not long for this world.

They did not scruple to bomb innocent civilians.

Who can number the stars?

All at once my numberless days were numbered.

We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen.

The ceiling had arched oaken beams.

They made obeisance to the sultan.

Rarely in the history of art have little boys or exotic animals been portrayed as sensual odalisques.

A heavily brocaded blanket pushed towards the bottom of the bed reveals drying pools of odorous urine.

He walked onwards to the head of the lake.

I do not presume to argue with these, but our modern parallels do not help us overmuch.

Since few questioned such a view, those of pacific leanings met with little sympathy.

Giuliani turned his answer into a paean to the police.

Kent’s face paled when he saw that Rob had a knife.

Gradually, the novelty of city life began to pall.

They bade both the merchant and his paramour adieu.

Her grief became less intense with the passing years.

Tiny white flowers patterned the ground like confetti.

He’s always been a very peaceable man.
We are now hoping for a peaceable end to this dispute.

Lightning flashed and thunder pealed.

In its wake, the air was pellucid.

On a different tack, Republican lawmakers have penned bills that would limit welfare benefits to teen moms.

One day perchance I shall tell you.
Leave now, lest perchance he find you.

His peregrinations took him to India.

The air was thick with paranoia as the conversation turned to the perfidious question of appearance money.

On trips organised for food writers, public perfidy is a popular lament.

I paused also, perforce, being behind her.

Lilacs perfumed the air.

It was a most perilous enterprise, but everything for him depended on it.

Karpov, the champion, came perilously close to losing.

Hundreds perished when the ship went down.

In return Apollo sent a pestilence, and Poseidon the sea serpent.

Good job too, a young thing like her oughtn't to be out late on a pestilential night like this.

After all, what most urgently needs thought in this century, if not the event and the phantasm?

This phantasmagoria is not entirely original.

The darkness was pierced by the beam from the lighthouse.
The men’s lanterns pierced through the dense mist.

She felt foolish and unsure under his piercing gaze.

His head was pillowed on his arm.

‘Morning!’ he piped with a cheery voice.

She gave a long piteous cry.

Anna’s heart went pitter-patter as she opened the letter.

Jugs were full of flowers from the garden where summer had revealed a plenitude of roses and lilies.
But the important consideration was that life should recover its plenitude, its normal contented turgidity.

To my mind, the meal was astonishingly plenteous.

No smoke plumed out of the factory’s great chimneys.

In some areas, drug dealers openly ply their trade on street corners.

Rising infection rates portend a health-care disaster.

Some people believe the raven is a portent of death.

Recent developments are as portentous as the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

A mad rage possessed her.

He departed post-haste for Verdun.

Like any Eastern potentate he was celebrated for his wives.

But once connected, it was a different story one was taken in and cosseted like the biblical prodigal.

Her work touches something profound in the human psyche.

Clinton has been too protean to entirely satisfy either.

But I have puckish news for you.

Rain trickled down the glass, puddling on the window sills.

The whole city seemed to pulsate with excitement.

The silence was occasionally punctuated by laughter.

They’re too pure and innocent to know what’s really going on.

We have to begin by purging our minds of prejudice.

They swept along the crimson canal into the purlieus of the new city.

The High Elf army fell on the besiegers of Lothern, putting them to the sword.

Wedding guests quaffed champagne.

She quailed visibly at the sight of the prison walls.

‘Jerry?’ she called, trying to quell the panic inside her.

World leaders are now united in their quest for peace.

His mood changed like quicksilver.

Quickly they piled into the car, which sped noisily and dangerously off through the quotidian traffic.

Edward was dressed impeccably, but he retained his raffish air.

A ragamuffin was walking up and down the rows of benches begging from anyone who was awake.

Try as he might he could not raise her.

The violence has raised the spectre of civil war.

The boys gazed up at him in rapture.

Doubtless photography is making the same ravages on this side of the Channel as it is with us.

In her early thirties, her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light.

Man then will be without an enemy among men and without fear of ravening beasts.

She looked ravishing.

The bar was redolent with the smell of stale cigarette smoke.

He had never met a more redoubtable fighter.

For several minutes confusion reigned.

His family rejoiced at the news.

There was great rejoicing at the victory.

‘I don’t care!’ she rejoined.

Her face wore a reminiscent smile.

The veils are parting, the mists are rent asunder.

Antinori has a reputation as a renegade because of his many successful efforts to help post-menopausal women become pregnant.

My mother rests beside my father in the family graveyard.

He was enjoying his new-found riches.

His eyes were rimmed with fatigue.

He had lost the feeling in his fingers and a rime of frost clung to his moustache and beard.

The whole room rang with their laughter.

The illness robbed him of a normal childhood.

Another puzzle is where the roseate terns fly for food during the summer on Falkner Island.

He was short, a little overweight, more than a little rubicund as to his features and exuded an aura of cheerful bonhomie.

The fire cast a ruddy glow over the room.

She learned to rue the day she had met Henri.

The browns this year come in all shades, from chocolate and cafe au lait to coppers and russets.

He had a large square head, strong features, the worried look of a rustic crossing streets in the capital.

Each morning they sallied forth in search of jobs.

She was mystified by my apparent sang-froid.

In all of this sanguinary excess, it is the guilty who die.

Every year 40 or 50 idols appear to satiate pre-teen musical tastes.

For those of melancholy or saturnine disposition, the means had to be found for inducing receptivity toward Jovian or solar influx.

Scalding tears poured down her face.

He could scarce believe it.

As a scion of the haute bourgeoisie, he wasn't allowed to have higher education.

Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.

In fact Brian Moore reckoned it would take only twelve days for the administrators to see the error of their ways.

Coles came to the Yukon in the 1970s to seek his fortune.

Another seer who forecast a Tory majority - without compromising his impartiality - was Sir Robin Day.

She has a seraphic look on her face.

To a large extent, luck and serendipity made us the kind of scientists we are, and brought us together.

The effect was beautiful, as even a serpent is beautiful once the fear of it is overcome.

Dexter stood at the back of the conference suite behind the video cameras and serried ranks of reporters.

He stared at her, his face set.

They set about him with their fists.

They were about to set forth on a voyage into the unknown.

His impatience shaded into anger.

It all turned out to be sham and hypocrisy.

Her long fair hair had been shorn.

He sheathed his sword.

While women were increasingly associated with weakness and emotion, by 1860 men no longer dared embrace in public or shed tears.

The children were well shod and happy.
His large feet were shod in trainers.

The fog rolled in, and a grey shroud covered the city.
Joseph was shrouded under a dark blanket.
The incident has always been shrouded in mystery.

I was sick at heart to think that I would never see the place again.

The wind sighed in the trees.

He wore a sharp little beard, though his eyes were sightless.

A long silence fell between us.

The farmhouse appeared, silvered by the moon.

But unlike Douglass he had no oratorical gift, no passionate language, no silver tongue.

Sometimes we do get fooled by all that beautifully packaged, silver-tongued hype of the record companies.

Clara gave a small, silvery laugh.

I wondered why she was behaving in so singular a fashion.

Then, unable to resist the telephonic siren song, she picked it up.
Mr. Sheerman Is not it time that the Minister ignored some of the siren voices behind her?

The bird soared skywards.

We chewed salted sunflower seeds, and slaked our thirst.

We chewed salted sunflower seeds, and slaked our thirst.

The dogs started racing toward us, howling and slavering.

She slept fitfully, her mind filled with images of Jack’s face.

Harry was in a slough of despondency for weeks.

The president wanted to slough off the country’s bad image.

Everyone was slumbering but us three.
He passed into a deep slumber.

He sensed a smouldering hostility towards him.

I didn’t want to fall into the same snare again.

For now there were friends, and music, and food, and Christmas, and snow-capped mountains, and Zali.

His ears were tufted with snowy hair.

Dorothy and Sarah continued to write to each other, and so began a lifelong friendship.

We travelled some little way before noticing that Bradley wasn’t with us.

His voice was sonorous, and long, flourished sentences came from his mouth perfectly formed.

Her friend was sorrowing over the loss of a child.

Dear one, be not so sorrowful.

Apart from scratching noises in the roof, the room was soundless.

Her skin spoke of warm summer days spent in the sun.

She spurned all offers of help.

Ellen suddenly spied her friend in the crowd.

Fear stalks every dark stairwell and walkway.

Alas, Thompson and her chosen theatre were star-crossed and she now has a production but nowhere to stage it.

The night skies were sombre and starless.

And then one night, one bright and starlit night, a true free dragon came by to pay a call.

There is little we can do to stay his hand without damaging East-West relations.

The winged steed Pegasus, after skimming the air all day, went every night to a comfortable stable in Corinth.

Perhaps Harriet had been roused by Pringle's stentorian cry.

Vanessa’s looks have been her stock-in-trade as an actress.

‘What difference does it make?’ she stormed.

We sipped wine to the strains of Beethoven.

Flowers strewed the path.

She lowered her head and entered the Stygian darkness.

They give succour to the victims of war.
Then two mighty heroes, the twin brothers Tyrion and Teclis, arose to succour the realm and repel the invasion.

Hot colour suffused her cheeks.

And when his human dignity was gone, his innocence sullied, he felt something sharp plunge into his chest.

During his twenties his father and he were sundered by religion.

What can he do to help the humble suppliant?

Maximum use might be made by supplicants and petitioners of the distance between them and Rome.

Paolo knelt and bowed his head in supplication.

Tuesday's performance was outstanding, vivid and of surpassing clarity.

She was slim, svelte, and sophisticated.

But, as a means of maintaining good swards, it is a good policy to mix sheep with cattle.

The moon was swathed in mist.

These old attitudes still hold sway in the church.

Old age had not sweetened her.

Music swelled around us.

Even by 1920, the concept of a holiday taken purely for sybaritic enjoyment was still something many people wrestled with.

Ibbeth Peril has secrets it discloses only to brave men but its sylvan surroundings can be enjoyed by all.

Charles didn't find many sympathetic characters among the cast.

But now he, or she, needs to be an even broader, more sympathetic figure than before.

Like Raggedy Ann, she was a tabula rasa.

Abroad, too, imagination took wing.

We talked of old times.

Nothing can tear us apart!

They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus.

A large teardrop ran down her cheek.

The poem tells of the deeds of a famous warrior.

The tempest may not be entirely over.

Oh, that she were alive to see this!

The bell boomed as though it came from the bowels of the earth.

Old blackout curtains staunch the break of day.

Their house was perched on the brink of a canyon.

The U.S. is often seen as the citadel of capitalism.

Phoney psychics could milk their rich clients for years, charging fancy prices for rap sessions with the dear departed.

Captain Oates made the ultimate sacrifice in a bid to save his colleagues.
You made the supreme sacrifice of your life for your work last night, so don't be shy about admitting it.

I have never been one to deny the pleasures of the flesh.

The flower of the nation's youth was lost in the war.

Television is therefore seen to be taking the moral high ground, the side of the punter against the forces of evil.
Now he's restating his submission to the Bara Bhai and the forces of good.

But these pronouncements should not be taken as the fount of all wisdom.

People from the four corners of the world have come to Ontario to make it their home.

He took that secret to the grave.

He looked up towards the heavens.

Just as we set off, would you believe it, the heavens opened.

Few people dared to venture out during the hours of darkness.

She had saved him from the jaws of death.

It is not a thought soggy with the milk of human kindness.

So it is with the young prospects we throw into the pits of the courtroom.

That really is the primrose path.

Its dreamlike construction of our sceptred isle as an ethnically purified one provides a special comfort against the ravages of decline.

It's high time the scales fell from our eyes, and our bathrooms.

They came from lands across the seas.

They finally managed to throw off the shackles of communism.

They have begun building the sinews of an independent nation.

They make their living from the soil.

No need to toil in the sweat of one's brow to support it!

It's been hanging over my head like the sword of Damocles.

When we wake it is to find ourselves alone and separate, trapped in the toils of matter.

Instead, he had directed his talents to bolstering the vanity of the military and the higher-paid members of the Civil service.

Only through such an accidental, miraculous chance could anyone expect to shake off the yoke of grimly limited prospects.

He was frail and spotted, with the drawn and thievish look of a figure in a ducal portrait.

They had thought to deceive me.

She had never put her own family into meal thraldom.

The Colorado River was just a thread of silver, 4,000 feet below.

But inside the echo were sounds not quite their own-a kind of threnody, a weeping, something melodic and sad.

Pink tinged her cheeks.

He could be followed to the end of time, and still nothing would happen.

They toiled slowly up the hill.

Two floor-to-ceiling bookcases are filled with legal tomes and bursting files.

Anton lapsed into his own tongue when he was excited.

We topped the hill and looked down towards the valley below us.

The sun was just touching the tops of the mountains.

She touched the handkerchief to her nose.

Though she had her own traitorous desire to subdue before she could even begin to fight his.

Her face was transfigured with joy.

David trod wearily along behind the others.
I heard the back door bang, and Rex’s tread in the hall.

If so, you are taking your own first tremulous steps into fiction.

Her long blonde tresses were partially covered with a simple headband, a floral coronet and a chiffon train.

Managers of existing systems reacted to these proposals with truculent hostility.

Will Mark find true love with Julie?

Tyrone fleeing from Maria's hotel tryst was equally unlikely.

Her long dark hair tumbled over her shoulders.
The words tumbled out as if he hardly knew what to say first.

Beside a tussock of grass a little way outside the opposite copse, a rabbit was sitting and gazing at them.

The inescapable presence of doubt is a constant reminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth.

He hurried into the deserted twilit street, ignoring the twinge in his knee.

At first glance, it looked like unalloyed good news.

A law protecting the nesting birds was passed in 1621 which, to judge from its results, was unavailing.

But the New Testament is strongly against doubt itself and stronger still against unbelief.

His father’s unblinking gaze was fixed on the fire.

It leaves logging to the unbridled discretion of the Forest Service.

They escaped under cover of darkness.
Kawaja fueled speculation by publicly suggesting that barrels of the by-product were shipped out under cover of night.

‘Don’t be too upset if he doesn’t come, ’ said Drew in an undertone.

His glance at her was unfathomable.

Of course, there are no longer bawdy houses, where these unfortunates are displayed openly to debauched satyrs.

Her warnings went unheeded.

Stepan is falling ill without knowing it; his unspoken, unimagined destination is delirium and death.

Ezra unloosed the rope and pulled it in.

How could that evil and unlovely face be Dorian Gray's?

But the big horse, ideally suited to Aintree, has some way to go before matching Red Rum's unmatched achievements.

His unquiet personality could not outface the somnolent arrogance of the greatest city in the world.

As a result of his long struggles Gorfang has acquired an unreasoning hatred of the Dwarf race.

Jack gazed unseeing out of the window.

Stacy is a small, thin, unsmiling freshman.

He was a prophet without honour and yet he had kept the purity of his belief unsullied.

It was a moment of unutterable excitement.

Here we are in the uttermost depths of the Midlands.

For the next three decades she lived the life of a vagabond, moving restlessly from one city to another.

The bombastic, vainglorious Nivelle had virtually announced to the world his grandiose expectations, making the dreadful defeat doubly damaging.

An act of conspicuous valour, in the tradition of St George, might help both her and him.

The narco manages to stay alive, elude capture, get his drugs across the border, and vanquish authorities.

A fine rain was beginning to veil the hills.

He stumbled with vengeful intent through wide, open-topped courtyards and along covered, low-ceilinged walkways.

The world abounds in verdant forest tracts that were years ago laid waste by man or natural calamity.

Cziffra played the Hungarian dances with great verve.

Lucas plays the part of his villainous aunt.

But far above them stand the higher movers of villainy.

She spoke with a violence that surprised them both.

Nor was its bare face the ethereally lovely, angular visage of that alien species.

We've seen a strong visceral reaction to the flag-burning issue.

She looked over the cliff into the void.

Her eyes were void of all expression.

The string confined flight to the limits of a circle, like a satellite voyaging around the earth.

The side roads are for locals and tourists; these big dudes are made for voyagers.

She gently wakened the sleeping child.
Agnes would often waken at the slightest sound.

Perhaps you imagine that my poor patient can be wakened up and talked to.
I wakened up when he started shouting at me.

She gave a wan smile.

These qualities serve Boy well in the course of his canine wanderings.

The remaining one-third includes frozen wastes, deserts, mines and towns.

But these two spent their gifts like wastrels.

In the main, the destitute wayfarers were treated well.

James broke down and wept.

I felt tears well up in my eyes.
Anger welled up within him.

I felt tears well up in my eyes.
Anger welled up within him.

There was a wellspring of courage within her.
Las Vegas became the wellspring of a new style of family values.

The procession wended its way through the streets.

What manner of son would treat his mother in such a way?

Her eyes grew wide in anticipation.

He was winsome and diffident, with a quiet sense of humour.

It was with a heavy heart that Kate said goodbye.

He wanted her with every fibre of his being.

She withdrew a document from her briefcase.

Elaine felt a pain deep within her.

Hepzibah looked at Carrie's woebegone face.

She'd never be able to gaze in wonderment at any sunset again.

The versatility of the space is increased and the quality of its output is supposed to be wondrous.

But he bought no worldly goods.

A great number of emigres arrived daily from the mainland, left homeless and often destitute of all worldly possessions.

Would that we had seen her before she died.

One of them had the effrontery to bring a wraith back once.

With your leaves my victors shall wreathe their brows.

I managed to wrest the photograph from his grasp.

I was shocked to see their wretched living conditions.

I could see the curiosity writ large on Rose’s face.
This is an example of bureaucracy writ large.

The pit yawned open in front of them.

Hannah yearned for a child.

He had a deep yearning to return to his home town.

Four troops of yeomanry were held in reserve in Luton but were not needed.

The Druids used mistletoe at Yuletide, which was their winter festival.

Joe cranked ratchets; and Tom moved around the garage like a zephyr.