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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Google+ Vocabulary (English C2) GUTTERSNIPE



References in classic literature?
This is a dexterous little cosmopolitan guttersnipewho can do scores of things, not only shoot, but draw and paint, and probably play the fiddle.
So that thousands of poor English people trembled before a mysterious chieftain with an ancient destiny and a diadem of evil stars--when they are really trembling before a guttersnipe who was a pettifogger and a pawnbroker not twelve years ago.
the one an inky, rusty old canoe with a sable hearse-body clapped on to the middle of it, and the other a mangy, barefooted guttersnipe with a portion of his raiment on exhibition which should have been sacred from public scrutiny.
I shall make a duchess of this draggletailedguttersnipe.
Shaw's tale of the humble Cockney guttersnipewho is transformed into a lady leaving her flower basket behind for a life among London's middle classes was the inspiration behind the Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady, becoming one of the most beautiful musicals in cinema history.
Gingrich, a longtime specialist in guttersnipepolitics adept at smearing his opponents as traitors or saying they should be jailed, attacked Romney for taking money from millionaires while himself welcoming $11 million from a billionaire casino magnate and his wife from Las Vegas, the nation's capital of family values.
The role of Eliza Doolittle, the young cockneyguttersnipe who is transformed, Pygmalion-like, into an upper crust English lady as part of a bet by Professor Henry Higgins, is one of the best known in musical theater.
Forbidden insults have included coward,guttersnipe, hooligan, rat, stool pigeon, swine, and traitor.
While certainly not the prettiest girl at the dance with its cut-off forend, it has its own guttersnipeappeal with its gaping bore and military sights.
Thus, I don't have to go into any detail about the guttersnipe attacks and backstabbing Gov.

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