Words, Language & Grammar
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-31 | Author:Stephen Wilbers [Wilbers, Stephen]
Style without substance accomplishes little. Kurt Vonnegut had this point in mind when he declared in an essay on style, which appeared in Palm Sunday, “Did you ever admire an ...
( Category:
Writing Skills
October 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Holmberg, Charlie N. [Holmberg, Charlie N.]
CHAPTER 16 I didn’t sleep that night. I wished and prayed and begged for sleep, to blow myself out like a candle just for a little while, but sleep eluded ...
( Category:
Fantasy
October 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner [Thomas, Francis-Noël]
Il faut exprimer le vrai pour écrire naturellement, fortement, délicatement. [It is necessary to express what is true in order to write naturally, powerfully, sensitively.] —Jean de La Bruyère, Les ...
( Category:
Writing Skills
October 12,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Sister Miriam Joseph [Joseph, Sister Miriam]
In dealing with negatives, it is very important to remember that the negative may be placed either in the copula or in the term; but it is never permissible to ...
( Category:
Rhetoric
October 12,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1998-04-01 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L.]
27. The Charm of Mystery Monogamous marriage, by its very conditions, tends to break down this strangeness. It forces the two contracting parties into an intimacy that is too persistent ...
( Category:
Feminist Theory
October 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Forsyth, Mark [Forsyth, Mark]
Skeuomorphs The handle of the common or garden teacup is a classic example of a skeuomorph. In the nineteenth century, when photography was still in nappies, exposure times were so ...
( Category:
Word Lists
October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-29 | Author:Robert C. Fuller [Fuller, Robert C.]
The Biology of Desire Biological evolution operates according to a very simple formula. Natural selection favors those organisms that are most reproductively fit. Evolution is single-minded in this regard. All ...
( Category:
Linguistics
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Randall Garrett & Laurence M. Janifer [Garrett, Randall]
* * * Three minutes later, they were standing near the doorway of the Temple, watching the preparations for the Grand Procession. The fifty priests of Dionysus gathered there while ...
( Category:
Linguistics
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 1959-10-08 | Author:Mack Reynolds [Reynolds, Mack]
Somewhere along in here the fog rolled in. When it rolled out again, I found myself closing one eye the better to read the lettering on my earthenware mug. It ...
( Category:
Linguistics
October 9,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-06-13 | Author:H. Beam Piper [Piper, H. Beam]
* * * The Psionics and Parapsychology people weren't the only delegation to reach Blanley that day. Enough of the trustees of the college lived in the San Francisco area ...
( Category:
Linguistics
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 1956-10-08 | Author:Lester Del Rey [Del Rey, Lester]
Collections were good all week—probably as a result of Izzy's actions. Even after he arranged to pay his income tax, and turned over his "donation" to the fund, Gordon was ...
( Category:
Adventure
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-30 | Author:Randall Garrett [Garrett, Randall]
XIII The heavy tread of the invaders' boots as they entered the central plaza of the walled city awakened nothing but echoes from the stone walls that surrounded the plaza. ...
( Category:
Linguistics
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-09 | Author:H. Beam Piper [Piper, H. Beam]
* * * A real civil war was developing even as Klarnood spoke; by mid-morning of the next day, the fighting that had been partially suppressed by the Constabulary had ...
( Category:
Linguistics
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-23 | Author:H. Beam Piper [Piper, H. Beam]
* * * More aircars were arriving, big and luxurious, emblazoned with the arms of some of the most distinguished families in Asgard. One of the first to let down ...
( Category:
Linguistics
October 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:O'Connor, Flannery [O'Connor, Flannery]
The child crashed through the woods, making the fallen leaves sound ominous under her feet. The sun had risen a little and was only a white hole like an opening ...
( Category:
Words, Language & Grammar
October 9,2015 )
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