There are swift-flowing rivers which dash through jagged canons; and there are enormous plains, which in winter are white with snow, and in summer are gray with the saline alkali dust.
No matter how tightly we grab a rock or a branch, no matter how fiercely we swim against the stream, the river still carries us in a certain direction, whether we like it or not.
They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely, and glittering in the brightness of the sun.
It had been a while since Harry had seen him out of Ron's pocket, and he was unpleasantly surprised to see that Scabbers, once so fat, was now very skinny; patches of fur seemed to have fallen out too.
Saving furiously, and with regularised legal status in Colombia, the family eventually bought land in El Zulia, a small village near the Venezuelan border. Brick by brick she built a house there.
There's a lot of people in here, he knows you're here and he's just saying okay, well I'm just going to try to work out my stress by chewing aggressively on a yak cheese thing.
He drove his big tractor over a piece, and he didn't even think about it until he saw the news, like: " Oh, there's space debris in my field that's now growing canola or whatever, " right?
You can imagine, friends, people dancing with a lot of energy, and there's a rug or a carpet on the ground, and they're dancing so hard that their feet, their shoes, actually cause the rug to rip, okay?
We are showing the journey of a young couple, Dylan and I, buying a land and eventually building a house because I feel like everyone's dream is to eventually have a cabin in the woods.
The wife of Ali Baba had scarcely turned her back, when Cassim's wife, looking at the bottom of the measure, was astonished to see a piece of gold sticking to it.