Found 14,074 results for "silk"
by Kate Chopin
A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!
by John Hersey
Exactamente a las ocho y quince minutos de la maƱana, hora japonesa, el 6 de agosto de 1945, en el momento en que la bom...
by Jorge Luis Borges
Debo a la conjuncion de un espejo y de una enciclopedia el descubrimiento de Uqbar.
by Jung Chang
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national g...
by Peter Frankopan
From the beginning of time, the centre of Asia was where Empires were made.
by Sandra Brown
The Reverend Jackson Wilde had been shot in the head, the heart, and the testicles.
by George Eliot, John O'Connor
IN THE DAYS when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread l...
by Edgar Rice Burroughs, E. R. Burroughs
TARA of Helium rose from the pile of silks and soft furs upon which she had been reclining, stretched her lithe body lan...
by Richard Matheson
On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he c...
by Andrew Lang, Leonora Blanche Lang
Once upon a time there lived a cat of marvellous beauty, with a skin as soft and shining as silk, and wise green eyes, t...
by J.K. Rowling
"Someone bloody famous," said the hoarse voice on the end of the line, "better've died, Strike."