flowing adjective ( SMOOTH AND CONTINUOUS )/ˈfləʊ.ɪŋ/ /ˈfloʊ-/ adjproduced in a smooth, continuous or relaxed styleflowing movements/linesI thought I recognized your flowing script.vague adjective/veɪg/ adj•not clearly expressed, known, described or
Read more…Part2 Chapter 1"I need to sell some wool," the boy told the merchant.The shop was busy, and the man asked the shepherd to wait until the afternoon. So the boy sat on the steps of the shop and took a book from his bag."I didn't know shepherds knew how
Read more…Dusk dusk noun/dʌsk/ n [U]the time before night when it is not yet darkAs dusk fell, bats began to fly between the trees.herd noun/hɜːd/ /hɝːd/ n [C + singular or plural verb]•a large group of animals of the same type that live and feed togethera her
Read more…Part1 Chapter 1The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood.He decided to spen
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/dɑːn/ n [plural forAnd now six years have already gone by...
I have never yet told this story. The companions who met me on my return were well content to see me alive. I was sad, but I told them:"I am tired."
Now my sorrow is comforted a little. That is to say-- not ent
Read more…Beside the well there was the ruin of an old stone wall. When I cameback from my work, the next evening, I saw from some distance away mylittle price sitting on top of a wall, with his feet dangling. And Iheard him say:
"Then you don't remember. This
Read more…"Men," said the little prince, "set out on their way in express trains,
but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about,
and get excited, and turn round and round..."
And he added:
"It is not worth the trouble..."
The well that w
/ˈwɪr.i/ v in serious writing, or for communicating with people in a serious or polite way.">formalIt was now the eighth day since I had had my accident in the desert, andI had listened to the story of the merchant as I was drinking the lastdrop of my water supply.
"Ah," I said to the little prince, "these memories of yours are very charming; but I
Read more…"Good morning," said the little prince.
"Good morning," said the merchant.
This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel noneed of anything to drink.
"Why are you se
Read more…"Good morning," said the little prince.
"Good morning," said the railway switchman.
"What do you do here?" the little prince asked.
"I sort out travelers, in bundles of a thousand," said the switchman. "I send off the trains that carry them; now to the
Read more…/-ˈnɑː.t ̬ən-/ adjIt was then that the fox appeared.
"Good morning," said the fox.
"Good morning," the little prince responded politely, although when he turned around he saw nothing.
"I am right here," the voice said, "under the apple tree."
"Who are you?" asked the litt
Read more…abode noun/əˈbəʊd/US pronunciation symbol/-ˈboʊd/ n [C usually singular]the place where someone livesformal The defendant is of no fixed abode (= has no permanent home).humorous Welcome to my humble abode!demand verb (REQUEST)/dɪˈmɑːnd/US pronunciati
Read more…But it happened that after walking for a long time through sand, and rocks, and snow, the little prince at last came upon a road. And all roads lead to the abodes of men."Good morning," he said.He was standing before a garden, all a-bloom with roses.
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