21-03-17 Mrs. Elton was first seen at church: but though devotion might be interrupted, curiosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and it must be left for the visits in form which were then to be paid, to settle whether she were very pretty indeed...
21-03-17 It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;--but when a begi...
21-02-24 Stratton was never sure just how long he stood staring at her in dumb, dazed bewilderment. After those mental pictures of the Mary Thorne he had expected to find, it was small wonder that the sight of this slip of a black-frocked girl, with her soft...
21-01-24 MRS. STERLING. IT was an April day when Christie went to her new home. Warm rains had melted the last trace of snow, and every bank was full of pricking grass-blades, brave little pioneers and heralds of the Spring. The budding elm boughs swung in t...
20-11-28 The Iron Lady is a 2011 British biographical film based on the life of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century. The film was directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Thatcher is portrayed primarily by Meryl...
20-09-27 What in the world are you going to do now, Jo? asked Meg one snowy afternoon, as her sister came tramping through the hall, in rubber boots, old sack, and hood, with a broom in one hand and a shovel in the other. Going out for exercise, answered Jo...
18-04-18 Former U.S. First Lady Barbara Bush died Tuesday at the age of 92. 美国前第一夫人芭芭拉布什周二病逝,享年92岁。 A spokesman of the Bush family made the announcement on twitter Tuesday evening, prompting a wave of condolence messages. Barbara Bush se...
16-08-25 The lecturer on evolution had been going on for nearly two hours, then he started again, and said he: Let me ask the evolutionist a question -- if we had tails like a baboon, where are they? Ill venture an answer, said an old lady, We have worn them...
16-06-21 There was an old woman on a plane, sitting next to the Pope. It was stormy outside, and the plane was being rocked by some severe turbulence. So this kindly old lady looked upon Deaths door, and said to her papal neighbour, Father, surely you can do...
16-04-22 I no longer looker look like an old lady, said Sophia to her husband now busy solving a cross-word puzzle by the fire. She had just been to her hairdresser and looked quite a different person. The fellow lifted his head and muttered under his breath...