Word: tilling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...family party in the evening, Grandma's birthday next week will probably be like other days. "I got in the habit now of waking up at 6 o'clock," she says. "I hear my son up, splittin' the kindlin' wood downstairs. I wait till I'm sure he's got the coffee made, then I come down about 7. I just eat a piece of bread for breakfast, then I carry some coffee upstairs, and paint. In the afternoon I take a nap so when evenings come and the young folks come...
...another's trigger fingers into bone splinters. When, at last, it is made clear that Scott is avenging his murdered fiancee, it is easy enough to understand why he hates the heavy and turns up his nose at the girls; the only mystery is why he waited till the last reel to explain himself...
...There is nothing more putting off to young university players than a slight suggestion that their etiquette or sportsmanship is in question . . . Smith sent a double fault to me, and another double fault to Joad. He did not get in another ace service till halfway through the third set of a match which incidentally we won . . . For me it was the birth of gamesmanship...
Aberdeen's Dr. D. R. MacCalman had an even simpler theory: children were being spoiled by the rod. "Parents and teachers proceed joyfully to knock hell out of the little blighters. And what can the little blighters do but wait till they are big enough to do likewise? Children so brought up are, as adults, aggressive and violent...
...flocked to Bath. So did every social climber. Eighteenth Century Author Tobias Smollett, for one, sometimes looked with bilious eye at "what is called the fashionable company at Bath . . .† The number of people, and the number of houses continue to increase; and this will ever be the case, till the streams that swell this irresistible torrent of folly and extravagance shall either be exhausted or turned into other channels, by incidents and events which I do not pretend to foresee...