The wind had my nerves shot from the whining and whistling through the branches. ... A rather tall figure, with long hair blowing in the wind. ... I could have sworn on what I saw, but after that moments' glance, the figure was gone. ... Before I could get one word out, she vanished into thin air, with no sound when she took off. ... She was taken from the house when we were younger because of issues with our late father, but she found her way back home. ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Once he turned his back to the shell big gusts of wind wrapped around the turtle shell. ... Sam didn't believe the turtle, but decided to play along with his little joke. ... "Very well," said the turtle, and with a gust of wind and a few words of an ancient language Sam became a powerful and well-known fighter. ... the turtle was gone, leaving only the olive green shell. ... "I know you wont," replied the frog and with a gust of wind he was gone once again leaving only the shell. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The tone of 'The Walk' is very sad and lonely throughout the whole poem: 'You did not walk with me/Of late to the hill-top tree/By the gated ways,' The sad tone emphasises Hardy's feeling of loss as he is upset that he has lost his wife and regrets the way their marriage ended up. Hardy's loneliness is shown when he quotes: 'You were weak and lame/So you never came,' This means Hardy went out without his wife's company and was alone even though they could have gone out together, Emma was too ill to go but Hardy went out anyway. ... It also give...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

With each step I leave a footprint in the wet, grainy earth. ... The air is saturated with mist from the sea. ... The wind blows my damp hair into my face, refreshing me with every gust. ... I put it in my bag, along with all the other things I have taken away from "my beach." ... The sun is gone and the ocean sinks into blackness. ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The air was heavy with gloom; the sepulchral gloom of death. ... The one before me had lost the battle of life and was gone forever. ... The wind blew and not another soul could be seen other than the standing corpse of my beloved and her thoughts enveloped me. ... Watered by these tears of sorrow, my thoughts sent off shoots of compassion and remorse to my body and my soul wept with the feeling of being alone. ... I sat there for some time with tears rolling down my face, but then regained my composure, consoling myself by thinking that what is done is done. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The mournfulness of the sonnet can suggest that she (mother) is regretting her decision to have children, and that she had have stayed with the man instead. ... Harwood makes sure to use words such as whine and bicker; these words have been known to have negative connotations associated with them as opposed to words such as playful banter. ... The mother is talking to the winds, as if she has no-one else when she states "they have eaten me alive"." ... The audience can then understand and sympathize with her. ... The hyperbole "They have eaten me alive,"" refers to the children, and the stat...

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They see the world as a big place filled with little forms of life. ... I know this sounds strange but at that moment I had a flashback of those same people playing with me and I saw the world with a different feeling to it. I saw it for the colours of the sky and I smelled it for the scent of the wind. ... I was glad no one was around because they may have thought I had gone mad. ... Then it was gone. ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

That thing-the thing with the narrow pupils-is after me. ... My mind is racing with all different kinds of thoughts, but all deal with an untimely end. ... I look around the well-lit room, pondering if I have passed away and gone to heaven, but the figure I see sitting in the chair opposite of-oh what is this? ... I am a rebel," I reply with a slight smirk. ... The buildings that rise higher than high are all made of stone-ancient stone-that almost erodes and crumbles with each contact with flesh or with even the slightest breeze of the wind. ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

They fell in love with the house from the moment they laid their eyes on it. ... A white washed porch encompassed the body of the house, its rails intertwined with red roses that blessed the thick summer air with their sweet aroma. ... The sound of the enormous, oak door opening followed by a strong gust of crisp, early winter wind sharpened Vivian's senses as she began to run down the dark hall towards the top of the staircase. ... Behind her the heavy wood of the door crashed open sending icy gusts of harsh, bitter wind spinning through the house. ... Her body trembled with complete...

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• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: High School

She inhaled sharply at the short compliment, the innocent and soft smell of the wildflowers mixed with the chilled air meeting with her nose, and exhaled with a small giggle. ... She crossed the hair in front of her face only to find that her vibrant colors were gone and replaced with her natural reddish-blond hair. ... "So you've been with Jack?... Chilling wind whipped against her cheeks and she looked up at Jack sitting in front of her in the field now. ... 'Stay here with him.' ...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

A Last Wish On a warm spring day on Sept. 23 1978 in the little town of Beaufort, Carolina, when the wind smells of pine and the flowers bloom, Matthew remembers his senior year at Regan High and Jennifer, the girl who changed his life. ... , I didn"t want my friends to think I was a dork communicating with one so I told her " you wish!" ... Franks to see if she was there , when I walked in she was there on the outside of a room 201 and I asked her what she was doing outside and she told me that the kid in room 201 has died and she started to cry ,since my friends were gone I thought ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the chilly autumn wind swept us along the path towards her house, lightly kicking through the heaps of orange and brown fallen leaves, Sarah and I were conversing about the Morals and Ethics seminar that we had just had at school. ... Edwards," I calmly saluted, shaking his right hand with a firm grasp. ... Sarah questioned me with her child-like voice. ... Do you see that girl over there, the one with the red dress on? ... She keeps asking me to hook her up with you. ...

• Word Count: 2465
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School