every day the factory whistle shirieked tremulously in the griny, greasy air above the workers settlement
in the remotest parts of siberia, amid the steppes the mountains and the pathless forests there are drab lonely little towns built of wood each with one or at most two thousand inhabitants and two churches one in the centre and the other in the graveyard and all of them more like
i hope my readers will not think me vain for writting my life, wrote the fantastical, original brainned, margaret cavendish, duchess of newcastle in 1655 while she was still in her early thirties
this literary trifle a message to garcia was written one evening after supper, in a single hour
oh look valya how beautiful! fascinating! like a sculpture its not marble of alabaster, its alive and yet how cold!
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