Second Book for Teaching Modern Languages: English Part for AdultsS. Cronbach, 1908 |
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... weather people do not leave their comfortable dwellings , unless compelled by some important business . The cold is quite severe . The water in the fountain is frozen , and the large pond in the park is covered with a thick sheet of ice ...
... weather people do not leave their comfortable dwellings , unless compelled by some important business . The cold is quite severe . The water in the fountain is frozen , and the large pond in the park is covered with a thick sheet of ice ...
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... weather : I cannot keep my eyes open and my feet are quite numb with cold . We decide to go back to our house . The fire is lighted in the grate and the burning logs crackle merrily . How comfortable it is in the well heated sitting ...
... weather : I cannot keep my eyes open and my feet are quite numb with cold . We decide to go back to our house . The fire is lighted in the grate and the burning logs crackle merrily . How comfortable it is in the well heated sitting ...
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... weather . 14. Describe them during a snowstorm . 15. In what kind of weather do most people go out - of - doors ? 16. Where are you the most com- fortable during bad weather ? 17. Why do some people leave their homes in spite of bad weather ...
... weather . 14. Describe them during a snowstorm . 15. In what kind of weather do most people go out - of - doors ? 16. Where are you the most com- fortable during bad weather ? 17. Why do some people leave their homes in spite of bad weather ...
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... weather afterwards ? 46. Do the clouds prevent the sun from shining ? 47. What happens to the snow when the sun shines ? 48. What makes walking then so very disagree- able ? 49 Read the preceding piece over again , putting the verbs ...
... weather afterwards ? 46. Do the clouds prevent the sun from shining ? 47. What happens to the snow when the sun shines ? 48. What makes walking then so very disagree- able ? 49 Read the preceding piece over again , putting the verbs ...
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... weather frequently occur in Spring ? 19. Is the rain , spoken of in the reading - piece , warm or cold ? 20. Where can we find shelter against the rain , if we take a walk in the country ? 21. Are there other houses in the neigh ...
... weather frequently occur in Spring ? 19. Is the rain , spoken of in the reading - piece , warm or cold ? 20. Where can we find shelter against the rain , if we take a walk in the country ? 21. Are there other houses in the neigh ...
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Página 145 - And dost thou imagine, then, Partridge," cries Jones, "that he was really frightened?" "Nay, sir," said Partridge, "did not you yourself observe afterwards, when he found it was his own father's spirit, and how he was murdered in the garden, how his fear forsook him by degrees, and he was struck dumb with sorrow, as it were, just as I should have been, had it been my own case? — But hush!
Página 147 - Little more worth remembering occurred during the play, at the end of which Jones asked him, "Which of the players he had liked best?" To this he answered, with some appearance of indignation at the question, "The King, without doubt.
Página 77 - Rome entreating help — which they called the Groans of the Britons ; and in which they said, " The barbarians chase us into the sea, the sea throws us back upon the barbarians, and we have only the hard choice left us of perishing by the sword, or perishing by the waves.
Página 147 - ... well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why...
Página 158 - I wiped my face with that ill-fated handkerchief, which was still wet from the consequences of the fall of Xenophon, and covered all my features with streaks of ink in every direction.
Página 145 - O la! what noise is that! There he is again. Well, to be certain, though I know there is nothing at all in it, I am glad I am not down yonder, where those men are.
Página 145 - Partridge, did not you yourself observe afterwards, when he found it was his own father's spirit, and how he was murdered in the garden, how his fear forsook him by degrees, and he was struck dumb with sorrow as it were, just as I should have been, had it been my own case? But hush ! O la ! what noise is that?
Página 143 - To which Partridge replied with a smile, ' Persuade me to that, sir, if you can. Though I can't say I ever actually saw a ghost in my life, yet I am certain I should know one, if I saw him, better than that comes to. No, no, sir, ghosts don't appear in such dresses as that, neither.
Página 143 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 145 - There, sir, now; what say you now? is he frightened now or no? As much frightened as you think me, and, to be sure, nobody can help some fears. I would not be in so bad a condition as what's his name, squire Hamlet, is there, for all the world.