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1. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said. (O.Wilde)

2. Love is … letting her choose the new car. (Chewing gum inset)

3. “I will give you my answer before we get to Durban.”

“Very good”, answered Sir Henry, and then I said good-night and turned in, and dreamt about poor long-dead Silvestre and the diamonds. (H.R.Haggard)

4. The day after the murder, a letter had been received by her manager purporting to be from the dancer, in which she said that she was returning to Russia on urgent private affairs and that he must deal with her broken contract as best as he could. (A.Christie)

5. A few months after Oliver arrived, the boys had grown so wild with hunger that they decided someone must ask for more food. Oliver was chosen to do this. (Ch. Dickens)

6. I remember a friend of mine buying a couple of cheeses at Liverpool. Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two-hundred yards. I was in Liverpool at the time, and my friend said if I didn’t mind he would get me to take them back with me to London, as he should not be coming up for a day or two himself, and he didn’t think the cheeses ought to be kept much longer.

(J.K.Jerome)

7. I, with my short grizzled hair sticking up straight, and Sir Henry with his yellow locks, which were getting rather long, were rather a contrast, especially as I am thin, and short, and dark, weighing only nine stone and a half, and Sir Henry is tall, and broad, and fair, and weighs fifteen. (H.R.Haggard)

8. On Friday a 2 ton whale swam up the river Thames right the way into central London. It was obviously very distressed and on Saturday they captured it, put it onto a very large barge and tried to return it to the open sea. Unfortunately the poor whale died before they could release it. I suppose this incident typified the British love of animals. We can watch disasters from all over the world with people suffering and seem to ignore it, but if we see animals suffering we get very upset. Funny people us British! (M.Watts)

9. ”I thought he was at Cannes with Sir Eustace”

“He was supposed to be in Florence — but he certainly never went there.”

(A.Christie)

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1. Then we got down to world politics in general; I was quite surprised to look at my watch and find it a quarter to two. (A.Christie)

2. He turned and walked off, knowing that young Syd was being watched by Divisional Men. (J.J.Marric)

3. In the sudden shock of seeing a man whom he imagined far away in South Africa, he lost his head and stepped back upon the line. He was always a coward. Under the pretext of being a doctor, I managed to search his pockets. (A.Christie)

4. As luck would have it, here we found an overhanging slab of rock carpeted beneath with smooth sand, which afforded a most grateful shelter from the heat. Underneath this we crept, and each of us having drunk some water and eaten a bit of biltong, we lay down and soon were sound asleep. It was three o’clock in the afternoon before we woke, to find our bearers preparing to return. (H.R.Haggard)

5. Half-way back to Bulawayo we stopped for tea at a somewhat primitive structure at the side of the road. The proprietor was digging in the garden, and seemed annoyed at being disturbed. (A.Christie)

6. On his ninth birthday he was sent back to the workhouse. It has recently been decided that the workhouse had become too popular with the poor. They liked living there, for indeed it cost them nothing! New rules were made to stop them enjoying themselves and to reduce the cost of keeping them there. (Ch. Dickens)

7. That explains why the Mill House was chosen. Pagett could probably get in and out of it unobserved. Of course he made no objection to my accompanying Sir Eustace across in the boat. (A.Christie)

8. There were many carriages standing in the road by the sandpits, and a lot of bicycles…Going to the edge of the pit, I found it occupied by a group of men-Henderson, Ogilvy, and a tall man that I afterwards learnt was Stent, the Astronomer Royal, with some workmen with spades. (H.Wells)

9. Violence was condemned by the world’s leading Islamic body. “Overreactions surpassing the limits of peaceful democratic acts… are dangerous and detrimental to the efforts to defend the legitimate case of the Muslim world,” the 57-nation Saudi-based Organisation of the Islamic Summit said in a statement from its secretary general, Ekmelettin Ihsanoglu. He called the protests “regrettable and deplorable”. (Guardian, 02,2006)

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I. For your information

A. Please do not change seats without consulting a flight attendant. Vacant seats may already be assigned from the next city.

B. Federal Aviation Regulation, Part 121.575 states:

1. No person may drink any alcoholic beverage aboard an aircraft unless the certificate holder operating the aircraft has served that beverage to him.

2. No certificate holder may serve any alcoholic beverage to any person aboard any of its aircraft if that person appears to be intoxicated.

3. No certificate holder may allow any person to board any of its aircraft of that person appears to be intoxicated.

C.Federal regulation prohibits smoking in the lavatories and in the no-smoking section of all aircraft including aisles.

Thank you for flying Delta!

(Delta Air Lines Boarding pass)

II. The few words that Basil’s friend had said to him — words spoken by chance, no doubt, and with wilful paradox in them — had yet touched some secret chord, that had never been touched before, but that he felt was now vibrating and throbbing to curious pulses.

Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather a new chaos, that it created in us. Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

(O.Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray, 100-101)

III. Yet it was watching him, with its beautiful marred face and its cruel smile. Its bright hair gleamed in the early sunlight. Its blue eyes met his own. A sense of infinite pity, not for himself, but for the painted image of himself, came over him. It had altered already, and would alter more. Its gold would wither into gray. Its red and white roses would die. For every sin that he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its fairness. But he would not sin. The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience. He would resist temptation. He would not see Lord Henry any more, — would not, at any rate, listen to those subtle poisonous theories that in Basil Hallward’s garden had first stirred within him the passion for impossible things. He would go back to Sibyl Vane, make her amends, marry her, try to love her again. Yes, it was his duty to do so. She must have suffered more than he had. Poor child! He had been selfish and cruel to her. The fascination that she had exercised over him would return. They would be happy together. His life with her would be beautiful and pure.

(O.Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray, 188)

IV. But the dog didn’t show a thing. “Here, Buck,” the Boss called.

Tom Stark prodded the dog with his toe for a little encouragement, but he might just as well have been prodding a bolster.

“Buck is gitten on,” Old man Stark said. “He ain’t right spry any more.” Then the old man went to the steps and stooped down with a motion which made you expect to hear the sound of old rusty hinges on a barn door. “Hi, Buck, hi, Buck,” the old man wheedled without optimism. He gave up, and lifted his gaze to the Boss. “If he was hongry now,” he said, and shook his head. If he was hongry we could guile him. But he ain’t hongry. His teeth gone bad.”

The Boss looked at me, and I knew what I was paid to do.

“Jack,” the Boss said, “get the hairy bastard up here and make him look like he was glad to see me.”

I was supposed to do a lot of things, and one of them was to lift up fifteen-year-old, hundred-and-thirty-five-pound hairy white dogs on summer afternoons and paint an expression of unutterable bliss upon their faithful features as they gaze deep, deep the Boss’s eyes.

(R.P.Warren. All the King’s men)

V. George told us about a man he had known, who had come up the river two years ago, and who had slept out in a damp boat on just such another night as that was, and it had given him rheumatic fever, and nothing was able to save him, and he had died in great agony ten days afterwards. George said he was quite a young man, and was engaged to be married. He said it was one of the saddest things he had ever known.

And that put Harris in mind of a friend of his, who had been in the Volunteers, and who had slept out under canvas one wet night down at Aldershot, “on just such another night as this”, said Harris; and he had woke up in the morning a cripple for life. Harris said he would introduce us both to the man when we got back to town; it would make our hearts bleed to see him.

(J.K.Jerome. Three Men in a Boat)

VI.              Private Lee Meets Russian General

The event took place in the Allied Control Building in the west sector of Berlin back in 1966.  I was put in a guard position in this building!  I was wearing white gloves, and white helmet, and white shoe laces and etc!   There where 4 top level Allied Power Generals came into this building to have a top level meeting!  As they came in front of me in a single file, I came to attention with rifle in present arms position.  First, the American General, second, the British General, third, the French General, and then the Russian General being fourth.  Only this Russian General had a small dog on a leash!

The Russian General was a huge man, and had big round stomach, big as a table round.  He had a head that was large too!  In his hand, he had the leash to this small, and I mean small dog.  The small dog was about 4 inches high, and about 6 to 8 inches long!  It was a small dog for this huge big,  Russian General.  The Russian General was attempting to follow  these other Allied Generals up the stairs to the meeting room.  The little dog on the leash could not get up the steps of the stairs, and the big huge headed Russian General could not bend over and pick the small dog up to carry him up the stairs. 

When I saw the Russian General could not pick the dog up and carry him!  I knew I had to do something!  I came down with my rifle from present arms to parade rest, and leaned my rifle over to the wall knowing I may get into trouble doing this, but I did it anyway!  I felt the Russian General needed help with the small dog.  I picked the small dog up and put it into the Russian General’s arms.  He mumbled something to me which I did not understand!  He appeared to be thanking me!  He proceeded up the stairwell well, which turned as it went up!  I went back and retrieved my rifle, and went to present arms again!  As the Russian General and his small dog got to the turn in the stairs, he looked back at me down underneath, and gave me a big “Wink”!   He and the small dog walked into the meeting room single file with the other Generals, and I never saw them again!

(Horace Jerry Lee)