... top ofthe house, the picture ofDorianGray grew older every year. The terrible face showed the dark secrets of his life. The heavy mouth, the yellow skin, the cruel eyes - these told the ... passed, the face in thepicture grew slowly more terrible. The Pictureof Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde retold by Jill Nevile OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1989 The PictureofDorianGray of my life. ... intelligent, of course, but with The PictureofDorianGray Dorian stood and listened. He could hear nothing — only the drip, drip of blood onto the floor. The Hand of a Killer again. The murdered...
... and hung them over the side. ey talked to each other across the theatre, and shared their or-anges with the tawdry painted girls who sat by them. Some women were laughing in the pit; their voices ... of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowa-days. ey have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. ey feed the ... one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ey always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest ofthe play is entirely over they propose...
... women." THE VALLEY OFTHE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 11 The horses, resting frequently and lathered by the work, had climbed the steep grade ofthe old road to Moraga Valley, and on the ... childhood the talk by the pioneer women ofthe courtesy and attendance ofthe caballeros of the Spanish-California days. Sunset greeted them when, after a wide circle to the east and south, they ... share of their wages. He was so handsome and so quiet and soft-spoken. And he had the nicest eyes and the softest, cleanest hands. I can see them now. He played with me sometimes, in the afternoon,...
... because ofthe dependence of their trades on the other tied-up trade's, that odd jobs at common labor were hard to obtain. Billy minutes he was the worst wreck they ever hauled to the receivin' ... ofthe public and broke the strikes. But the healthy beating up of a scab, he contended the "throwing ofthe fear of God into a scab," as he expressed it was the only right and proper ... know." One ofthe stablemen who had not gone out, Henderson by name, worked at Billy's stables. Despite the urging ofthe bosses to eat and sleep in the stable like the other men, Henderson...
... Interpreting the early evolution of the angiosperms is contentious, partly because of the paucity of fossilized flowers prior to the period of radiation, and also because ofthe apparent rapidity of the ... matching of fig and fig wasp traits. For ex-ample, the sensory receptors ofthe wasp respond onlyto the volatile chemicals of its host fig, and the size andmorphology ofthe guarding scales ofthe ... outside the country of introduction and, in the former case, always in quaran-tine. The results of these tests will determine whether the regulatory authorities approve the importation of the agents...
... regu-late the transcription of genes located on the two sides of the /11 cI-cro intergenic region. Furthermore, the information gathered in the present study may proveuseful in the construction of ... involved in the dimerization of LexA CTD werealso present in the CTD of /11 CI (data not shown). The CTDs of two /11 CI monomers may therefore beresponsible for the formation of a dimeric /11 CI ... homol-ogy over the entire length ofthe k repressor. Interest-ingly, although the sequences ofthe C-terminal ends of the above S. aureus phage repressors are identical, the sequences of their N-terminal...
... flow on the direction of atom movement is opposite to theofthe island is fixed. Therefore, the growth causes the electric field to decrease at the area around theeffect ofthe decrease ofthe potential ... into the mechanism of island formationbetween the STM tip and the sample could occur. The appearance ofthe large pit at the place ofthe with the STM. At a constant tunneling currentmode of STM ... function ofthe tunneling current. The tunneling current dependence ofthe rate has a maximum at 0.3 nA, and the decrease ofthe rate at tunnelingcurrents above 0.3 nA was related to the effect of...
... of the lignocellulosic biomass, and the fermentation ofthe sugars, all occurring in one step (Hogsett et al. 1992). The relatively lower tolerance ofthe ethanol is the main disadvantage of ... Depending on the type and concentration ofthe sub-strates, cellulase enzyme could be used in the hydrolysis (7–33 FPU/g substrate). The adsorption ofthe cellulase enzymes onto the surface ofthe cellulose, ... ethanol conversion of 90% ofthe theoretical yield (Nguyen 1998). The degradation ofthe lignocellulosic structure often requires two steps, rst, the prehydrolysis in which the hemicellulose...
... was reported that the superconducting properties of these materials are affected with increase ofthe amount of doping, regardless ofthe nature ofthe dopants. The repression of superconductivity ... used as the organic or inorganic binder. The addition of several % these binders to the slurry improves the forming performance ofthe green body and the homogenization properties ofthe sintered ... to study the Figure of merit ofthe ceramic superconductors. One ofthe important thermomagnetic transport quantities is the electrothermal conductivity and is shown to be one ofthe powerful...
... receive the lowestsalaries, but paradoxically they have the highest years of schooling. Howthese characteristics are rewarded is analyzed in the next section. 11. 5 Results The discussion ofthe ... with a score of 0.513 and 0.551,respectively, near the bottom ofthe “medium development” group. 11 The different development levels ofthe countries are also reflected in the share of workers employed ... below their contribution to productivity. 11. 5.4 Robustness Checks The working paper version of this chapter contains a number of sensi-tivity analyses that demonstrate the robustness ofthe results—see...
... sources. The quality ofthe radiograph is affected by the source to film distance – the greater this is the sharper the image; the size ofthe radiation source– the smaller the source the sharper the ... result in the beam being reflected awayfrom the receiver and lost – remember the analogy ofthe torch and the mirror .The probe angle should be selected to optimise the reflection of the sound ... quality control tool to determine the quality ofthe work. The extent of NDE depends upon the application and the criticality ofthe joint and isgenerally specified in the relevant application standards...