... never have trodden before , or never ceased to tread , he answered the questions posed beside the sphinxes : for this decade I had no choice but to hearken to the porter , so to that - wise or not wise - there is nothing to say .
The Kingfisher's Wing
People often had greyblue eyes, or pale blue, but hardly ever that colour of the summer sky or like the blue of the kingfisher's wing. Hamish's thoughts darkened. There was a psychotic killer on the loose. He was sure that the killing ...
Special Features: More than 3,500 indexed references. Thematic arrangement. Important events highlighted. Illustrated biographies of key figures. Cross-references. Comprehensive index. Glossary.
Throughout the book, special feature panels focus on various aspects of animal behavior such as camouflage, migration, and hibernation.
Because of their design , the kingfisher's wings must beat almost constantly to maintain lift . The ' hand ' section of the wing is large , supplying plenty of forward thrust but the inner wings , which provide lift , are comparatively ...
“Post Script” [to “E. E. Cummings and the Modernist Movement”]. In Critical Essays on E. E. Cummings, 174–175. Ed. Guy Rotella. Boston: Hall, 1984. ———. (Re)Valuing Cummings: Further Essays on the Poet 1962-1993.
... and even similarly colored with gray-andwhite bodies and showy white patches in the wings and tail. Both may perch conspicuously atop taller mesquites and paloverdes. The shrike has black (not dark gray) wings and tail.
6 See Grover Smith , T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays , p . 130 . 7 For Lancelot Andrewes , p . 17 . 8 Conrad Aiken , Selected Letters ( New Haven and London , 1978 ) , p . 185 ; quoted in Ronald Bush , T. S. Eliot : a Study in Character ...
... from boats on stillwaters use another even more vividly Wing : Blue section from mallard wing colourful variation of the Butcher , known as One of the best known wet flies of all time . the Kingfisher Butcher , a widely - used fly .
This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T. S. Eliot’s writings of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly Four Quartets, and attempts to disprove the widespread belief in Eliot’s unproblematic commitment ...