The land was flat.
I invited him back to my flat for a coffee.
I got a flat tyre soon after setting off.
He released the tick and put him on the long flat desk.
Store tobacco is flat black plug, but these fellows mostly chaws the natural leaf twisted.
They were just abreast of Mareciana, and beyond the flat but verdant Island of La Pianosa.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. I had a sore throat, it hurt to swallow.
She seized her attacker by the throat.
My doctor diagnosed a throat infection.
He gazed and gazed and gulped a lump down his throat and did not say a word.
But the wolf found them all, and used no great ceremony; one after the other he swallowed them down his throat.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By The Brothers GrimmContext Highlight In THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS Mary put her hand up to her throat because she was afraid he might see the excited lump which she felt jump into it.
Apple store.
The store will reopen.
How do I get to the shoe store?
Then Martha gave up her store of knowledge.
He sprang to the corner of the brick store.
They started riding towards the store; then up gets one of the boys, draws a steady bead over the wood-rank, and drops one of them out of his saddle.
A band of gray hair.
Put a rubber band round these books.
The band was playing old Beatles songs.
Tom and Joe Harper got up a band of performers and were happy for two days.
At the same time, four of the band, who were concealed on the banks of the Almo, surrounded the carriage.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian. Sometimes a chief is wanted, but when a chief presents himself he rarely has to wait long for a band of followers.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. Plant a tree.
You can plant a dream.
Plant smile, grow laughter.
And now the boy had to plant and water the garden, hoe and dig, and bear the wind and bad weather.
When Dickon began to clear places to plant seeds, she remembered what Basil had sung at her when he wanted to tease her.
The nasturtiums and other plants, which his father had delighted to train before his window, had all disappeared from the upper part of the house.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. My bike got wet in the rain.
The road was wet and slippery.
The grass is wet with dew.
Close by stood a boy who dashed his stick into a wet ditch.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE I knowed he would see I was wet, and then he would be asking questions.
But even on wet days it could not be said that Mary and Colin were dull.
He wants to spend more time with family.
I intend to spend the night there.
She would rather spend than save.
So they had to spend the night with the goose.
Mrs. Medlock said I was to have a shilling a week to spend.
I have no longer the strength to do anything but to spend my days in prayer.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 112. The Departure. Baseball cap.
If the cap fits, wear it.
Put the cap back on the bottle.
It was a lady; her cloak and cap were of snow.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN He pulled off his cap and looked round still smiling.
He looked startled when he saw Mary, and then touched his cap.
Press the red bottom.
News press.
Press release.
Villefort, while turning restlessly on the cushions, felt something press against him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 111. Expiation. Beauchamp, one of the kings of the press, and therefore claiming the right of a throne everywhere, was eying everybody through his monocle.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 109. The Assizes. It was filled in and pressed down and made steady.
If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well.
You can control your job.
He's trying to get a job.
My hands shook, and I was making a bad job of it.
But that pie was a job; we had no end of trouble with that pie.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXXVII. Then we whirled in with the pick and shovel, and in about two hours and a half the job was done.
Fish oil.
Oil price.
Cooking oil.
Nobody was at home except an old Lapland woman, who was dressing fish by the light of an oil lamp.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN Hit hard.
The car hit a tree
If you don't aim high you will never hit high.
He now hit upon a half-open door, through a chink of which a faint light shone.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE At last they conspired together and hit upon a plan that promised a dazzling victory.
He hit the landing on the other side neatly, for this was a familiar bit of work to him.
The bird flew up onto the tree.
A swarm of bees flew into the garden.
We flew to Athens via Paris.
Mary flew across the grass to him.
She listened to him until he flew away.
When Mrs. Medlock left her at the end of her own corridor Mary flew back to her room.
Feather ink pen.
Can I borrow your pen for a minute?
The pen is the tougue of the mind.
Andrea took the pen with an imperceptible smile and began.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker. Then he laid it down seized his pen, and wrote a few words.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September. He fetched from an old secretary a sheet of white paper and pen and ink.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker. The back yard.
There is a small pond in his yard.
Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
It was a little twenty-foot yard.
Two carriages were soon heard to enter the court yard.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault. We went through the yard so as to see what the hounds would do.
A famous movie star.
Sirius is the brightest star in the sky.
She will become a pop star.
A falling star shone in the dark firmament.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE One of the youngest ran and tore off the golden star.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE FIR TREE The golden star of tinsel was still on the top of the Tree, and glittered in the sunshine.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE FIR TREE He filled the bottle with wine.
Shake the bottle well before use.
The salesperson gave him a bottle of ink.
We would a took the bottle, but it was broke.
And there was a bottle that had had milk in it, and it had a rag stopper for a baby to suck.
After this the second son went into the forest, and his mother gave him, like the eldest, a cake and a bottle of wine.
I only did it for fun.
It's fun being with you
We had lots of fun at the fair.
His eyes were twinkling with fun.
He walks over to Thwaite many a day just for th fun of it.
She was full of fun and made them laugh at all sorts of odd things.
There's some sticky stuff in your hair.
I've got some sticky stuff on my shoe.
She's really hot stuff at baseball.
And accordingly he praised the stuff he could not see, and declared that he was delighted with both colors and patterns.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES She pours water out of the teapot over a piece of stuff which she holds in her hand; it is the bodice; cleanliness is a fine thing.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN We used to hop out of the woods and go charging down on hog-drivers and women in carts taking garden stuff to market, but we never hived any of them.
Christmas presents.
The girl has taped up the presents.
The kids hurried to open their presents.
Gretel presents Hans with a calf.
Gretel presents Hans with a knife.
Gretel presents Hans with a young goat.
November is a good time to hunt deer.
She had never taken part in a fox hunt.
Some animals hunt at night.
AFTER dinner all the gang turned out to hunt for turtle eggs on the bar.
Exactly so; I merely wish to overtake one of my friends, with whom I am going to hunt to-morrow at Chapelle-en-Serval.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern. But it transpired that this was a request which Joe had just been going to make of Tom, and had come to hunt him up for that purpose.
The best teacher.
The teacher told the children to stop chattering.
We all like having you as our teacher.
Children were anxiously questioned, and young teachers.
Cavalcanti the company of Mademoiselle Louise d'Armilly, her singing teacher.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger. "You are always right," said the music teacher, seating herself by the side of her friend.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 97. The Departure for Belgium. The princess wanted to marry a blacksmith.
She was like a princess in a fairy tale.
I am really going to meet the princess.
We shall see what this princess said.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SWINEHERD Now they were in the country where the princess reigned when she was at home.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHADOW In the evening, the princess and the shadow danced together in the large ball-room.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHADOW Feed a pig.
The baby can't feed itself yet.
Feed hay to the cows.
He told her what they looked like when they were flowers; he told her how to plant them, and watch them, and feed and water them.
The repast was magnificent; Monte Cristo had endeavored completely to overturn the Parisian ideas, and to feed the curiosity as much as the appetite of his guests.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 63. The Dinner. A wild goat had passed before the mouth of the cave, and was feeding at a little distance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. He escaped death by an inch.
Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard.
The curtains were an inch too short.
It fell pretty solid, and only rolled about an inch.
In its happy days flowers had been tucked away into every inch and hole and corner.
She was suffering from malarial fever, and seemed dying by inches.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. A trip to New Zealand.
We went on a day trip to the seaside.
She started on her trip yesterday.
He then inquired how they had fared in their trip.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. The chaplain of the chateau came to me yesterday to beg for leave of absence, in order to take a trip to Hyeres for a week.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. But of course I forgot all about driving slow on accounts of being glad and full of thinking; so I got home a heap too quick for that length of a trip.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXXIII. He reports for a local newspaper.
Which newspaper do you read regularly?
The newspaper caught my attention.
Monte Cristo watched and saw him approach the valet, who drew a small sealed parcel from his pocket, containing a newspaper and a letter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 85. The Journey. Next morning, the learned man went out to drink coffee and read the newspapers.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHADOW Next day a hundred newspapers relate the fact, with the names of the victim and the murderer.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. Reception desk.
He's not at his desk right now.
There are two pens on the desk.
He released the tick and put him on the long flat desk.
She thrust the volume into the desk, turned the key, and burst out crying with shame and vexation.
We know nothing as yet of the conspiracy, monsieur; all the papers found have been sealed up and placed on your desk.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Examination. Yellow mud.
I'm stuck in the mud!
My new shoes got ruined in the mud.
He cussed away with all his might, and throwed his hat down in the mud and rode over it, and pretty soon away he went a-raging down the street again, with his gray hair a-flying.
The old Dutch fort.
The forces managed to hold the fort.
He made a decision to leave the fort.
Clock ticking.
The clock has just struck twelve.
One cannot put back the clock.
The ticking of the clock began to bring itself into notice.
Mary was startled and sorry when she heard the big clock in the courtyard strike the hour of her midday dinner.
At last he was satisfied that time had ceased and eternity begun; he began to doze, in spite of himself; the clock chimed eleven, but he did not hear it.
Slip out the room unseen.
This shoe is apt to slip.
Let me slip into something more comfortable.
Martha, help her to slip on her best dress.
I said I reckoned I would slip over the river and find out what was going on.
She thought she would slip round this walk and look into the wood and see if there were any rabbits hopping about.
Keep your chin up.
His chin rose in a proud gesture.
I nicked my chin while shaving.
He had his chin in his hand, thinking.
Dr. Craven held his chin in his hand and thought him over.
He sat long with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands, meditating.
A walk along the beach.
He lay on the beach.
The house is clearly visible from the beach.
It seemed to the prisoner that he could distinguish a feminine form on the beach, for it was there Mercedes dwelt.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. I shall have a hot bath and go to bed.
I usually bath the kids in the evening.
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
I must do something in time: under such circumstances a Russian bath might do me good.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE At half past two in the morning Morcerf was conducted to his apartments, where a bath and supper were prepared.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 85. The Journey. The count had, indeed, just arrived, but he was in his bath, and had forbidden that any one should be admitted.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 88. The Insult. Should I mail this letter to you?
Air mail is quicker than sea mail.
One mail drives out another.
The paint is wet.
A good face needs no paint.
Apply the paint with a fine brush.
This table had a cover made out of beautiful oilcloth, with a red and blue spread-eagle painted on it, and a painted border all around.
So next morning he got some big sheets of wrapping paper and some black paint, and drawed off some handbills, and stuck them up all over the village.
Vampa in this attire resembled a painting by Leopold Robert, or Schnetz.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.