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"The Three Questions" is a 1903 short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.
Roald Dahl short stories bibliography; List of Dave and Morley stories; List of Doctor Who radio stories; List of supplementary Doctor Who episodes; List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989) List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)
The historical plural ending for adjectives is -i. However, in late Quenya, adjectives ending in - a instead have this - a replaced by - ë . Moreover, the adjective laurëa ("golden") there has the plural form laurië (in laurië lantar lassi , literary "golden fall (the) leaves", which in singular would have been *'laurëa lanta lassë ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
From Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) Up in Michigan (1923, revised 1938) in our time (1924) In Our Time (1925 and 1930) On the Quai at Smyrna; Indian Camp; The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife; The End of Something; The Three-Day Blow; The Battler; A Very Short Story; Soldier's Home; The Revolutionist; Mr. and Mrs. Elliot; Cat in the Rain; Out ...
A Quiver Full of Arrows is a 1980 collection of twelve short stories by British writer and politician Jeffrey Archer.. From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives freed from the gloom of oppression.
Battleground (short story) Beachworld; The Bear (short story) Before the Play; The Beggar and the Diamond; Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2) The Bird and the Album; The Blue Air Compressor; The Boogeyman (short story)
This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2] Other sources include words as long ...