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And I went back to my own cottage to live my own little patch of life.
They took a little trip for a little weekend to a little cottage where they wrote a little poem on a little theme.
Once Meg and John are married, Meg becomes “ dependent ” on him and “ isolated in her little cottage with two small children .”
By August 1970 Norman had moved to a three room " little white cottage " at 6007 Carlos Avenue, Hollywood, near the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood.
" In the summers of 1938 and 1939 he rented a cottage on Old Cove Road, now called West Cove Road, on Nassau Point, and spent many hours alone in a little sailboat he called Tineff ( Yiddish for " worthless ").
As the years of the 1950s wore on, Hellman says Hammett became " a hermit ," his decline evident in the clutter of his rented " ugly little country cottage " where " he signs of sickness were all around: now the phonograph was unplayed, the typewriter untouched, the beloved foolish gadgets unopened in their packages.
She managed to lure him to " an out-of-the-way little cottage ", where a booby trap.
On the 10th July another V1 flying bomb scored a direct hit on a cottage called “ little thatch ” It killed the owner and injured his wife and child.
Afterwards, a huge castle is built to serve as the BFG's new house, with a little cottage next door for Sophie.
A 1637 survey by John Harrison of the estates in or near Sheffield belonging to the Earl of Arundel states that a place called little Haggas croft in Loxley Firth contained ' the foundacion of a house or cottage where Robin Hood was born '.
* The “ classic ” witch lives alone in a little cottage in the woods.
It began as a small 17th century house " little more than a cottage ", with only of land and ended up as a " little Gothic castle " in.
The first eight years of her married life were spent in a little cottage in Hampstead.
Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage.
The " Salettl " ( 1799 ), a cottage with its little garden nearby close to the former menagerie served as attraction for the children of Maximilian IV Joseph.
With a little money, which he contrived to raise on his annuity, he retired to a small cottage at St Ninians ; but his finances again becoming reduced, he accepted of the hospitable invitation of his friends, Major Spark and his lady, to become the inmate of their residence of Viewforth House, Stirling.
Her mother then went away to stay alone in a little cottage in the woods, and told the girl, " only when you have worn out this suit of clothing shall you come and visit me.
The cottage called Knockan is distinguished by its bright red roof and white walls, set by a small hill ; cnocan in Gaelic means " little hill ".
< p > At one end of the little Glen Bay was a wilderness of tumbled black rocks, for some reason named Romantia ( a particularly " gentle " – or fairy-haunted place, I was told in Dooey opposite ), and upon this grim escarpment the breakers thundered and crashed, flinging up, as from a volcano, towering clouds of dazzling foam which would be hurled inland by the gale to put out the fires in the cottage hearths of Beefan and Garbhros.

little and was
each day the hurt was a little duller, a little less poignant.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
In fact, I was watching you on that little seventeen-inch screen when you rang my bell.
The keys were still in it, and I was miles away before I remembered that my clothes and purse and everything were still in the little cabana where I'd changed ''.
At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.
There was little likelihood of any customers walking in at that hour.
The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.
`` Well, I was a little bit confused.
And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.
even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.
But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.
Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;
Paula was saddened about what was happening to little girls and vowed to kneel no more in Chapel.

little and bursting
Some common operational problems are intrusion of air into the drive pipe, blockage of the intake or valves with debris, knocking due to having too little air in the pressure vessel, freezing in winter and bursting of the delivery pipe if output is blocked or pressure not relieved.
The boilers were safer than one might expect – they were fitted with safety valves, and even if these failed, a dangerous overpressure would rupture one of the many joints long before the boiler shell was in danger of bursting, and the resulting leak would relieve the boiler pressure and douse the burner with little risk to the occupants of the car.
How they had bent it down I had not the opportunity of seeing, but it was held down by main strength, I easily proved by disturbing a part of them, on which the leaf bursting from the rest, returned to its natural situation, and I had an opportunity of trying with my finger the strength of these little animals must have used to get it down.
Has it taken bursting bombs to remind the people of this little country that they have common tradition, a common genius and a common home?

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