Word: enchanting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ramsgate Pier. His plays were refused. People asked for more fairy stories. In 1847 and 1848 two new volumes were published. He wrote a romance, a book of travel; they failed to sell. "Fairy stories," readers begged. So, still disdaining them, he wrote more of these small tales that enchant children and philosophers, poets and delinquents, because in their translucence the mind sees its own reflection. One evening Hans, whose first friend was a pig, and his last a king, fell out of bed so awkwardly that he gave himself a hurt from which he never recovered. He died...
Thirty elevators will assist the goings in, the comings out, of the missionary guests; a swimming pool will assist them to approximate godliness; twelve roof gardens, laid out in perennial shrubs and beds of hardy flowers, will enchant their leisure; the maximum charge of $21 a week will cover board, two meals on week days, three on Sundays, radio service, hospital and gymnasium privileges. The building will cost...
...sense of humor 4 grant that there is none such might bring out an American Chauve-Souris which could tour Europe with notable success; but nobody would listen to it, though their eyes might burst in wonder, for only in Russia could he find such voices as those that enchant or dominate the air of Balieff's Bat. From the piercing shriek of Katinka, through the lyric beauty of the soprano, the sombre resignation of the contralto, the passion of the tenor, the expansiveness of the baritone, to that epitome of Slavdom, the resonance of a Russian bass--all were...
When Prince Ahab heard it suggested that he give his daughter to a penniless prophet, he roared with mirth and indignation. Judith wept for three days. At the end of this time, one Hiram, a merchant of Tyre, came to enchant her heart with tales of cities by the shores of seas. "Oh, how I should like to be a merchant," she cried. Jonah could not get work; the place for a successful prophet, people said, was in the desert. At last he went to Judith for comfort. When he spoke of their love, she twisted her shawl. . . . "I hardly...
...place. Every trick known to photographic art is used, and so skillfully used that the most extraordinary events seem perfectly natural. Elton Thomas, the author, has chosen a number of incidents from the Arabian Nights and woven them together into a fairy story that cannot fall to delight and enchant the youngest and the oldest members of the audience...