30 results for “pa”
- EXCERPTThe windmillsDon Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes…d our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom …
- EXCERPTThe Knight of the MirrorsDon Quixote — Miguel de CervantesHe who errs and mends himself commends himself to God. Patience, and shuffle the cards. Every man is the son of his own works.
- EXCERPTThe sewers of ParisLes Miserables — Victor Hugo
- EXCERPTGavrocheLes Miserables — Victor Hugo… never felt so happy as when he was in the street. The pavement was less hard to him than his mother's heart.
- EXCERPTHe sleepsLes Miserables — Victor Hugo…ied when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, As the night comes when day is gone.
- EXCERPTLeaving the Big WoodsLittle House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls Wilder…andmothers of today were little boys and little girls, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the B…
- EXCERPTCrossing the creekLittle House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls WilderThe wagon went into the water, and Pa told the girls to lie down and be still. Laura felt the wagon float and sw…
- EXCERPTBuilding the little houseLittle House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls WilderPa cut the logs and notched the ends, and Ma helped him lift them one by one …
- EXCERPTThe wellLittle House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls WilderMr. Scott went down into the well before Pa could stop him, and the bad air was waiting there. Pa said that after that…
- EXCERPTThe wolvesLittle House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls WilderPa lifted Laura up so she could see over the wall, and there in the moonlight…
- EXCERPTThe prairie fireLittle House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls WilderPa plowed a furrow around the house and set a backfire, and Ma and Laura beat…
- EXCERPTMoving onLittle House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls Wilder…oming to put the settlers out of Indian Territory, and Pa said he would not wait to be taken away like an outlaw. In the morning the…
- EXCERPTThe Lord of the Flies speaksLord of the Flies — William Golding…ing you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go?
- EXCERPTCall me IshmaelMoby-Dick — Herman Melville…ly, having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and…
- EXCERPTA damp, drizzly November in my soulMoby-Dick — Herman Melville…ember in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I…
- EXCERPTStrike through the maskMoby-Dick — Herman MelvilleAll visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event, in the living act, the undoubted deed, t…
- EXCERPTThe whiteness of the whaleMoby-Dick — Herman Melville…was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me. But how can I hope to explain myself here; and yet, in some dim, r…
- EXCERPTA pair of star-crossed loversRomeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare
- EXCERPTWhat light through yonder windowRomeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare…un, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
- EXCERPTParting is such sweet sorrowRomeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare
- EXCERPTNever was a story of more woeRomeo and Juliet — William Shakespeare…e to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punished, For never was a story of more woe Than this of J…
- EXCERPTReturning the ticketThe Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky… price is asked for harmony; it is beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it.
- TAGThe Grand InquisitorThe Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky · tagged: freedom, ivan, parable
- TAGThe onionThe Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky · tagged: grushenka, mercy, parable
- EXCERPTLove in dreamsThe Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor DostoevskyLove in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rap…
- TAGClimb into his skinTo Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee · tagged: atticus, empathy, lesson
- EXCERPTYour father's passin'To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
- EXCERPTGenoa and LuccaWar and Peace — Leo Tolstoy…enoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you stil…
- EXCERPTPatience and timeWar and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
- EXCERPTPlaton KarataevWar and Peace — Leo Tolstoy…or. His life, as he regarded it, had no meaning as a separate thing. It had meaning only as part of a whole of which he was always c…