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Летает сверчок
Или ходит пешком?
С усами сверчок
Или с пестрым брюшком?
А вдруг он лохматый
И страшный на вид?
Он выползет на пол
И всех удивит. -
Under the net
P.169
Certain things indeed I have learnt here: for instance, that my happiness has a sad face, so sad that for years I took it for my unhappiness and drove it away. -
Thomas Hood
In they go-in jackets and cloaks,
Plumes and bonnets, turbans and toques,
As if to a Congress of Nations:
Greeks and Malays, with daggers and dirks,
Spaniards, Jews, Chinese, and Turks-
Some like original foreign works,
But mostly like bad translations. -
Что это было, Бэрримор?
The Cambridge history of Russia, edited by Dominic Lieven. Vol. 2, Imperial Russia, 1689-1917. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006 ( Read more... ) -
Ettrick
When we first rode down Ettrick ( Read more... ) -
Mysterious creatures
Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands, Penguin 1977, (c)1952, p.18f.
It was a strange thing how much the meaning of a countenance depended on eyebrows...Film magnates took nice little girls from Balham and Muswell Hill and rubbed out their eyebrows and painted in other ones and they became straightway mysterious creatures from Omsk and Tomsk.
