Word: darknesse
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As darkness fell, the frogs began their insistent chorus. Over the black waters rustled the murmurous night noises of the Florida swamp where the big Eastern Airliner lay. She lay sprawled just as she had slewed into the water at 9 o'clock that morning, her big engines jerked...
At this point searchlights picked up two other Italian destroyers ideally placed for torpedo attack on the British Fleet. They bore away and launched torpedoes. Churning white wakes in the darkness, the torpedoes passed between the British ships without a hit. The most aggressive admiral could not take such risks...
For the next 20 years he told Americans things about themselves they had never quite understood before. After the first sensational impact of Winesburg, Ohio (1919), critics began to suggest that his characters were fantastic, that he was obsessed with sex, that his version of Ohio life was not a...
The physical city tamed too. Gothic extravagance yielded to gracious Georgian façades; Disraeli snorted over London's architectural insipidity. The criminals, the riffraff and the poor were vital; the rest of the nation was one sallow hunk of middle-class mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been...
In that darkness the battered, drained and dry-wrung people of London still reveal their incredible fibre. They have endured Puritanism, mercantilism, industrialism, sinking physically, among the nations of Europe, from the first grade to the third. But Europe's once strongest stock survived the plagues and the Great...