.... It was the blind leading the blind, he thought. "You do know some English, don't you?" he asked. "No," she said. He could imagine the p... ...eets, worked in office jobs, were government officers, part of an educated middle class, and a million other activities, classifications, and identiti... ...to remember. After an uneventful attempt at conversations in two different languages to which neither party could understand the other one, the foreig... ...was so much older than he was, he wanted to really learn the international language, and although he did not really have sexual feelings he would have... ...oying the conversation. "What are they: these snowmen? Are they just Englishmen?" "That but also Americans who didn't want to fight against... ... pulled out of his book bag the Lao classic, "Thao Nok Kaba Phuak which in English meant "The White Nightjar." The back cover said that it depicted t... ...he border. She had a student visa since she was technically enrolled in a language school (although she rarely attended) so it wasn't in fear of her ... ...hat day: dogs that gnawed through the trash; a man whom he had seen in the middle of the afternoon holding a tree of hooks attached to small plastic s... ...re unreal and eerie as descending ghosts. No sooner had he awakened than a middle-aged woman in a red jacket rode up beside him on her bicycle. "For...

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...r the strangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 1600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the docu... ...vulets of blood. He stared at her in bewilderment. She laughed huskily and speaking in the native language of the bazaars, invited him to make love ... ... only three years old. Rosita had come to Cornwall some forty years ago from Spain, following her English soldier husband who had been fighting with... ... ‘Breathe in Helen, here she comes!’ Helen was enveloped by the green wet leaves of that ancient English forest of her childhood and Gavin was hold... ...ey, cantered up to John MacGregor, who addressed him in Urdu. John had taught Helen some of this language on their long sea voyage and she understoo... ...essed in a jewel-encrusted, gold tunic and tapered gold pantaloons. He wore a gold pugree in the middle of which sparkled a ruby the size of a goose... ...d Helen, checking and loading the pistol. ‘See those three lemons on that branch? I shall hit the middle one.’ She forgot about her state of undress... ... recognised that he was dressed in European clothes. His well oiled, black hair was parted in the middle and he had a thin moustache above equally t... ... normal again. The man’s eyes opened. He looked at Helen in amazement and muttered something in a language she did not understand, except the words,...

...se. We see each other often, e-mail frequently, and communicate in a strange language. Our vocabulary contains the words “tweak” and “critique,” “SASE... ...ssionary. Missionaries go through extensive training, including learning the language and cultures of the countries they’re traveling to. Writers need... ...hed author. At one book signing I became keenly aware of the stare of a 127 middle-aged man leaning on a cane. When there was no one at my table, he ... ... He’ll be there. He’s always there, listening and helping us through. In the middle of the night when you’re up late worrying where your teen is, in t... ... middle of the night when you’re up late worrying where your teen is, in the middle of the storm that sounds like it’s about to tear the roof off, and... ...o the region and never moved back. She holds an interdisciplinary degree in English, history and drama and a law degree from the University of Richmo... ...national awards. Some of my books have been translated into nineteen foreign languages. I hope my amazing career helps people realize that it’s never ...

...t of her bedroom to see—she thought there were cars going that way in the middle of the night. Every time I rolled in my bed there was a sparkling o... ...mond-shaped swelling. A hard, blue swelling like a large medallion in the middle of his chest was surmounted by another smaller, brownish- red, medal... ... something out of what you are hearing. When there is no translation, all languages sound the same whether or not your particular knowledge structur... ...me whether or not your particular knowledge structure speaks a particular language. The only differences are in the spacing of the syllables and in ... ...The only differences are in the spacing of the syllables and in the tune. Languages are melodic in different ways but the appreciation of music, poe... ... Sanskrit word maya does not mean illusion in the same sense in which the English word is used. Maya means to measure. You cannot measure anything u...

... stepped away again. She'd read it in Islamic as if she were fluent in the language, and she damn sure wasn't. There is no power and no strength save ... ...ent vortex like a tiny tornado enclosing her. She felt like she was in the middle of a Bugs Bunny cartoon with Speedy Gonzalez, The Road Runner, Tasma... ...e hobble-jogged towards the kitchen and bumped right into genie-man in the middle of the floor. He stood like a human wall, arms folded over finely ca... ...rieved and took particular offense at the coverage of the situation in the Middle East. Especially when the Western TV and radio newspeople referred t... ...s going to keep her on her P's and Q's grammatically. Like a stodgy stuffy English professor. The description didn't fit him by a long shot, of course... ...nterloper?" "Nefa—What?" Justice grimaced at Therese. "Is he even speaking English? Or is he just cursing me out in a nice way?" "I think it's probabl...

...many different countries and could converse passably in German, Italian and English by the time I returned to Baincthuin. By the same token, I loved... ...to place. “I have never known a woman, but I have read many texts from the Middle East. Some of them tell of ways to pleasure a woman.” He moved t... ... am what Francois always called an overeducated chit,” I laughed. “I speak English fairly well.” I did not point out that, no matter where we went,... ...; there seemed to be no point in doing so. “As do I,” Erik responded in that language, without a trace of his native French accent. He turned more sol... ...e, you’ll not be destitute,” he explained). We worked daily on improving my English by reading Shakespeare’s works, and even began to teach Gilbert.... ... from afar as other men kissed the woman I love.” Claire stood silent in the middle of the room. I took her in my arms and bent down to kiss her. I... ...ugh a tangle in her dull red mane. “Pauvre ange.” I reverted to my native language for just a moment, calling the horse “poor angel,” and there I ... ... and I was too bereft to care. I wanted real friends, friends who spoke my language and did not mock me behind my back. It seemed such a simple th...

...One of the priests whispered, “There is no way out from here, we must do some- thing!” The language they spoke was an ancient one. “We have no chance... ...,” Mitch said en- couragingly, but inside, he felt exactly as she did. “Logan! Carver!” a middle-aged man shouted at them. “Oh no,” Alex whispered a... ... being passed down or such people living in ancient Egypt, let alone this form of written language,” Alex added. “This is unbelievable!” Mitch said... ...he text in the book of scrolls looked similar throughout, written in essentially the same language, but the writing style in the first half of the bo... ...That would take further study, as the text was more intricate and stylized, much like old English compared to modern vernacular. Mitch decided to t... ... CHAPTER 19 ANJIA’S VISION AXIANA woke up with a start in the middle of the night feeling panicked. She sat up, looked o... ...raeus paused for a moment then continued, “Your Mommy and Anjia were caught right in the middle of it. There was no warning - they could not avoid t...

... the planet, mass hysteria gripped the survivors. Conficts broke out. The Middle East was annihilated with the very nuclear arsenals that were mean... ...le. It remained intact but the pilot lost control and it went down on the middle of the highway. It bounced and rolled for several hundred feet befo... ...iew screen, the image of a man wearing Commander Armor appeared. He was a middle-aged man, probably in his mid to late 40’s. He had a full head of g... ...lvement with you than he’s claiming. Just some of the looks and the body language, it seems of. Not to mention any information he may have about my... ...gh the win- dow. “We’re waiting. Watch for the subtle changes in her body language. She’s alone, practically naked, and isolated with noth- ing more ... ...he dying history of this group, so their kids were re- quired to learn the language and other traditions of their Native American ancestors. “Shawn, ... ...” Maria utered something in Spanish that no one understood, then asked in English, “What’s happening?” Dr. Lancaster wiped the sweat of of his brow a...

...try. There was no way to catch even a word or two of it and this balding and middle aged man gave Sang Huin a look as if he had wasted his time talkin... ... despised him and suspected his son was gay; and that Yang Lin felt that his English level was the same as his Korean. Abstract ideas must not have e... ...hing him the sounds of Korean letters were glad to get the youngest child an English teacher. Little did they know of the pleasurable respites from p... ...orth. He died every time he saw one of them. He yearned for the love and the language where he could befriend someone who was handicapped and he chas... ...hool friend, took him to eat kimbop (a Korean version of sushi). He spoke in English the entire time neglecting his school friend from the conversatio... ...er number. Sang Huin invited him to a Christmas party held for students at a language institute but stayed contained to his own students and his new f... ...streets. Everything from the thin dust-sheathed roads to the hangul (Korean language) on the signs, looked as identical as the occasional mom and pop... ...o a taxi and went to the Sejong Cultural Center. His seat was located in the middle of the auditorium. As he sat down his cigarettes fell out of his ... ...isolated existence in an obscure trailer park in Ithaca, New York within the middle of winter in contrast to the crowds of Iraqi and American soldiers...

...omeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

...The Fish and Their Gifts/Na Makana a Na 'Ia is just such a student-created product. Written and illustrated by ten middle- and high-school students, this book is the result of an interdisciplinary book-publishing project integrating English Language Arts, Fine Arts, Hawaiian Language, Hawaiian Studies, and Science and Technology....

...nd gave them uneasy dreams. The Sto- ryteller belonged to another world of languages and symbols, mathematics and mystery: nothing for a Bloon to be ... ... and the wind blew him in the direction of a long, oblong building in the middle of the city. It was surrounded by a large garden with high walls an... ...ted for their rousing properties). They squeezed Theo’s toes, hummed dead languages into his ears and blew particles of ground coffee up his nostril... ...seemed a little disappointed and sent for the psycholo- gist. Presently, a middle-aged man with thinning hair walked in, a leather- bound notepad unde... ...ons on ancient parchments. Sometimes he sings under his breath in strange languages that none of us understands. Maybe he’s talking to the stars, bu... ...them seemed to call for his attention more than the others. He placed his middle f nger on the card and slid it out into the middle of the table. ‘B... ... the denim jacket. The man turned to face them and Theo saw that he wasn’t English, though he had no trace of an accent. His nose was slightly hooked... ...sked, rather impressed. ‘Do you speak French?’ ‘I don’t know that I speak English,’ Bozo replied thoughtfully. ‘I speak Bloon – it just comes out th... ...ds to help and the children behind Theo pushed him on to the bus. ‘Quick! English boy – to the back!’ they hissed, suppressing their giggles. Theo w...

...o long ago named the town after their ancestors. The name translated into English meant, ‘Speedy Bunyip’ from which the locals derived the name ‘Bal... ...he entrance to this town. The guardian angel, a goody two wings in Hell’s language, was frightfully big and obviously aware of the demon’s presence.... ...s obtained in his youth whilst in a drunken stupor. To sum him up, he’s a middle-aged man with a beer gut. Anne Knight is a different kettle of slud... ...s a friendly atmosphere, as long as one has no objection to belching, bad language, smoking, and a dog named Slops. Morris calls the local Christian... ... to get their gear off and for Morris to keep his gear on. The imp’s foul language far exceeded their human counterparts and the noise was spiritual... ... The town consists of around nine hundred people, sixty-percent averaging middle age, or over. One qualified teacher runs the local school with volu... ...esting backup; fortunately, it was his lucky day. Sir Creepton was in the middle of deleting files when he partly deleted the demon’s message that a... ... think I would like to learn Greek or Hebrew, I have enough problems with English’. Stella gave up the idea of trying to educate people on the spiri... ...sis, chapter one; verse one. Mind you, the entire reading was from an old English text. The constant thee, thy and thou, were a little hard for some...

...er mother was alive and well for so long, and the years passed making her middle aged and her mother old. Her belief that a second family was more re... ... a poignant body odor who took her under a bush in a patch of grass in the middle of a boulevard in dark shadow – there could be a baby growing withi... ... good—such pristine pulchritude when younger all the way up into uglifying middle age, but the black void at last came down upon from all sides. Fami... ...he making of her own clever crudities in the mezcla of two poorly learned languages. Was it the selling of herself that they had abhorred so much or... ... of interest by the agent to its object more natural than the artifice of language were the only spell that mesmerized her and her kind, and he knew ... ...." "You are an Indian?" "Yes." "Are you on the side of the English or the French settlers?" "Neither." "Chuckles has issued a... ...y as an internal organ or to think she had lost it. Only the ineptness of language, that language that fused so many types of love into one word, wou...

...h his magazine, "Revealing Babes," which lay at his side. The title was in English but the nude women and what little writing there was within it were... ...ad little consistency apart from the inundations of wanderlust of a nearly middle aged man on his inexplicable, cowardly journey to Laos. Sentience ha... ...o advertisements about soap, beer, condoms, and cars. Repulsed by the foul language, she was transfixed by it nonetheless, until feeling the acidic ra... ... now. Creativity and life were, for him, veritably exhausted. Was this the middle life crisis that was so ubiquitous to man? He did not know. "Hey guy... ...given his knowledge that the poor sometimes treated themselves to a bit of middle class opulence to make themselves connected to the society that they... ...mulous cloud. Only the storms, the headlines of the masses that he read in English from the Bangkok Post, would get his attention. A female beggar on ... ...yboy, was appealing enough to be referred to as "Naughty Nawin" with those English words in their headings proving that he had not turned into mushy a... ...terance even though to most of the contemporary world's populace the elite language was base English itself. Then he glanced toward the aisle and surr... ...h was meant to be a reproach against Boi. Thinking of how a smile conveyed language, it seemed to him that even the walls of the train were speaking i...

...ing foster-father, having transported it from France to England; put it in English clothes; taught it to talke our tongue (though many-times with a j... ...e your other servants: it may not onely serve you two, to repeate in true English what you reade in fine French, but many thousands more, to tell th... ...s more, to tell them in their owne, what they would be taught in an other language. How nobly it is descended, let the father in the ninth Chapter o... ...aigne's Essays norable, Lucie Countesse of Bedford. Relucent lustre of our English Dames, In one comprising all most priz'de of all, Whom Ve... ...e, as he heere censureth; and let cofession make halfe amends, that every language hath it's Genius and inseparable forme; without Pythagoras his Me... ...s all he had in this whole body done as much, as in most of that of other languages my peerelesse deere-deerest and never sufficiently commended fri... ... like injuries. Royall Majestie doth more hardly fall from the top to the middle, than it tumbleth downe from the middle to the bottom. But if the i... ...answer was: 'Touching your Exordium or beginning I have forgotten it; the middle I remember not; and for your conclusion I will do nothing in it.' A... ...sed mee to imitate him: He maketh choice of the most convenient place and middle of everie wall, there to place a picture, laboured with all his ski...

... the photo. She almost grinned, well aware of how much he detested vulgar language. Nonetheless, if he was going to annoy her with his pacing, she w... ...nch, the Nomad looked down the row of metal shelves laden with goods. The middle-aged woman smiled, her chubby cheeks flared with delight as she gre... ...tted that he couldn't understand how Roxanne eluded him every time. "Body language," Alex replied. "Your eyes give you away; they widen just a littl... ... persons breathing, heart rate, body temperature, tone of voice and body language. This implemented the means by which Alex identified and responde... ... surface dwellers, which they thought the case. Seated at the console, the middle-aged woman put the transmission over the speakers. As there was som... ... and smiled. The patient was coping better than she'd expected. Keating, a middle-aged male, burst into station nine. All eyes were upon the Medtech ... ...was cause for alarm. "It is a tracking device." Keating spoke with a broad English accent." He remained standing with Stephen gesturing to look at t...

... Title: THE SOUL BEARER Author: JONATHAN CROSS Language: English Subject: Fiction, Literature Publisher: World Pub... ... Title: THE SOUL BEARER Author: JONATHAN CROSS Language: English Subject: Fiction, Literature Publisher: World Public Librar... ...graphies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serve t... ... him: a small table decorated in red, white and blue with a lectern set in the middle. Governor Stevens sat next to General Haynes, impecca­ bly dre... ...agreed to stay for three years. Aaron agreed only if the Patron, who spoke five languages fluently, would teach him English, which Aaron knew he wou... ...n agreed only if the Patron, who spoke five languages fluently, would teach him English, which Aaron knew he would need when he got to America, the ... ...he New World. After three years, Aaron learned the mining business, as well as English, and decided it was time to go to America. Gold had be­ come ... ...ll glass coffee table. Brent turned when he heard the door open behind him. A middle aged man with a speckled, grey beard and horned rim glasses e... ...le, a man and a woman. They took their seats with the Secretary seat­ ed in the middle. "Secretary Benjamin," Hacker said, "you may consult with yo...