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...t, ears and eyes straining to take in any tiny noise she could make out. Moonlight flooded through the trees, and a cool breeze blew across her face. Crickets sang, and mosquitoes buzzed. She held down the lever on her radio. “I’m not seeing anything. Whatever it is, it’s gone now.” Is my mind playing tricks on me? No way. The thermal definitely picked up something. A bear...

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... to talk of Alcaeus and miss him, to remember our fun at other festivals. Crickets bubbled like little pots. Frogs burped. A bat fluttered over our ... ...s exist, I am shocked by man’s confusion and gullibility. “Man is like a cricket. He sees the cricket’s limitations but not his own. The cricket ca... ...a boat or build a house. He potters away in his clod or field. What can a cricket know about god?” That’s what man says, unable to see beyond his ow... ...beyond his own clod. He scoffs and sneers but what is he but a two-legged cricket, brown, yellow or black? I’m sure the cricket has his illusions, s... ...Swift, she likes to confuse, pre- paratory to that eternal grasp of hers. Crickets piped under the wall, asking for cooler weather. Abruptly, they s... ...sit by it the remainder of the night, sit by the stove or go out into the backyard, if it was summer or autumn. Melancholia has always dogged me. It...

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...ificial light which was now a natural silver sheen, the less vituperative crickets with their rather rhythmatic percussion of cacophony, the sudden ... ...ndow as the furniture from the lower floor of the house burst out into the backyard with the flood water of Hurricane Katrina, the two of them prayin...

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... dirt path. The night sky was brilliant with stars. He could hear the sounds of crickets and feel the soft dampness in the air. Richard came to a r... ...from his house. The warm Atlanta night carried a soft breeze, and the sounds of crickets started to sprout. Bailey was pleased with himself, he had... ...ahead to Cox's Beverly Hills home. His plan was to arrive first, steal into the backyard, circle around and wait inside the garage. Considering Cox'...

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...ines how sensitized human awareness can be. You cannot hear birds singing or crickets chirping while driving a car. You do not have to be aware of ... ...dern ball sports like volleyball, tennis, ping-pong, baseball, hockey, soccer, cricket, etc, are intrinsically anti- social for a basic reason: they a... ...tion of irresponsible dirtiness, and the endless conflicts of: ‘Not in my backyard you don’t. Not in my neighborhood you don’t. Not in my city ... ... use… has to go somewhere. So why shouldn’t your own turds go into your own backyard and not someone else’s. Wouldn’t that solve all the pollutio... ...s faster than ten years ago? As long as they don’t cut down the tree in your backyard: do you give a shit? Just recently: film footage showed eve... ...on lousy whales or dolphins? As long as these dead mammals are not in their backyard when they return from active duty on a sonar operation: they... ... all over the oceans of the world? Hey. As long as it didn’t happen in your backyard. As long as you didn’t see it personally: who cares? As far ...

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...d 8 Lord Ormont and His Aminta him twice, and his cheeks were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked h... ..., after the race out to tea at a distant village, too late in the year for cricket, too early for regular football, suited Matey, going at long stride... ...m he stationed beside himself, rather off his battle-front, as at point at cricket, not quite so far removed. Two boys at his heels piled ammunition. ... ...Hampton-Evey, and would not take, she said, a man to be a bootblack in her backyard or a woman a scullery-wench in her kitchen upon his rec- ommendati... ...k and defence wrestled behind her eyes with a suddenly vivid first- of-May cricketing field, a scene of snowballs flying, the vi- sion of a strenuous ... ...e.’ ‘Ha! square thumb, flesh full at the nails’ ends; you were a bowler at cricket.’ ‘Now examine the palms, my lord; I judge by the lines on the palm...

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...ed, the hearth swept, and the dinner service washed up and polished in the backyard. The great delight and energy with which the two young ladies appl... ...uld have thought there might have been. Well, I don’t know as I ever saw a backyard that took my fancy more. Would you allow me to look at it? Thank y... ...at its nearest point glancing through a meadow by the cheerful town, where cricket players were assembling in bright groups and a flag was flying from...

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...n a squint into Cursitor Street) and of Coavinses’ the sheriff’s officer’s backyard at the other she regards as a prospect of unequalled beauty. The p... ...stars. He could as 289 Bleak House – Dickens soon play at leap frog or at cricket as change into a cricket or a frog himself. But he is so much the b... ... These household cares involve much pattening and counter pattening in the backyard and considerable use of a pail, which is finally so happy as to as... ...ed, the hearth swept, and the dinner service washed up and polished in the backyard. The great delight and energy with which the two young ladies appl... ...uld have thought there might have been. Well, I don’t know as I ever saw a backyard that took my fancy more. Would you allow me to look at it? Thank y... ...at its nearest point glancing through a meadow by the cheerful town, where cricket players were assembling in bright groups and a flag was flying from...

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...n a squint into Cursitor Street) and of Coavinses’ the sheriff’s officer’s backyard at the other she regards as a prospect of unequalled beauty. The p... ...tars. He could as 289 Bleak House – Vol. One soon play at leap frog or at cricket as change into a cricket or a frog himself. But he is so much the b... ... These household cares involve much pattening and counter pattening in the backyard and considerable use of a pail, which is finally so happy as to as...

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...t down—horrors at which I trembled in my bed, after supplicating that the Radicals might be speedily taken and hanged. Here, too, had we, the small bo... ... woman moaning here, the speaker bent over her, took a bandage from her head, and threw open a back door to let in the daylight upon it, from the smal...

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... trouble, said I. He knows a task if he only looks at it. He is the best cricketer you ever saw. He will give you almost as many men as you like at ... ...w many a summer hour have I known to be but blissful minutes to him in the cricket-field! How many winter days have I seen him, standing blue- nosed, ... ...er was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with. She presently revived,...

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...as Week, with racquets, with bundles of polo-sticks, with dear and bruised cricket-bats, with fox-terriers and saddles. The greater part of them wore ... ...s, but a guard restrained him with more or less force—hauled him, in fact, backyards from the window of a locked carriage. Wilton must have struck the... ... a few other things which did not appear in the bills, un- der a system of cricket, foot-ball, and paper-chases, from four to five days a week, which ... ...’s all you want—know your men.” Cottar thought he knew them fairly well at cricket and the regimental sports, but he never realised the true inward- n... ... He favoured no one -not even when the com- pany sloven pulled the company cricket-match out of the fire with an unexpected forty-three at the last mo...