Eyes alive with enthusiasm

Even God can not change the past. (Agathon)

A rush of embarrassment swept through him

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.

(Goethe)

Shocked by the directness of the reply

Excessive scruple is only hidden pride. (Goethe)

His face cracked into an apologetic grin

An endless expanse of blue sky
Leaves fell and fluttered like snow flakes
The wind moaned through the trees
e moon sailed across the sky like a ghostly gallion

Faint heart wins not lady fair. (William James

Linton)
The fairest things have the fleetest end. (F.
Thomson)
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
(William Ellery Channing)
Fame is food that dead men eat. (A. Dopson)

Pausing for a moment she became aware of her

surroundings

For who would bear the whips and scorns of

time. (Hamlet 3:1:70)

The warmth of the air wrapped around her like a scarf

Friends are born, not made. (Hendry Brooks

Adams)

A sudden shiver of excitement shot through her body

Happiness is the shadow of thing past.

(Paradise Lost 4-299)

His once designer clothes looked anything but attractive

Her shocking smile;broken.

He wears the rose of youth upon him. (Antony

& Cleopatra 3 : 11 : 20)

Adventure is the champagne of life.

He, who will not when he may, may not when

he will. (John of Salisbury)

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

(Julius Caesar 3:2:97)

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

(Wordsworth)

And death shall be no more. death, thou shalt

die. (Donne)

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are

sweeter. (Keats)

And justify the ways of God of men. (Paradise

Lost 1 22)

Heaven is our heritage, Earth but a player's

stage. (Thomas Nashe)

And nature must obey necessity. (Julius Caesar

4:3:225)

A heaven on earth. (Paradise Lost 4-208)

And purer than the purest gold. (Ben Jonson :

The Touchstone of Truth)
Danger comes in silence and in secret. (Isaac
Pocock)
Dark with excessive bright. (Paradise Lost : 3
380)
A day is miniature eternity. (Emerson: Journals)
Death be not proud, though some have called
thee. (Donne)
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. (Pope)

The heart is not a clock, it will not wind again.

(Sacheverell Sitwell)
Hector is dead. There is no more to say. (Troilus
& Cressida 5-10-22)
Hills whose heads touch heaven. (Othello 1 : 3:
141)
His time is forever, everywhere his place.
(Abraham Cowley)
An honest man's the noble work of God.
Honest labour bears a lovely face. (Thomas
Dekker)

 How noiseless falls the foot of time. (W. R.

Spencer)
Hypocrisy in the homage that vice offers to
virtue. (La Rochefaocauld)
Great Phrases 2
Absolutely free conscience
Absorbingly interesting occupation
Abundantly illustrated book
Acoustically indistinct consonants
Admittedly difficult task
Apparently disconnected facts
Architecturally successful edifice
Astonishingly young mind
Awfully up-hill work
Badly drawn character
Basically irrelevant detail
Biologically important functions
Bitterly contested wars
Blatantly defied convention
Brightly coloured flowers
Brilliantly written book
Carefully ascertained facts
Carefully chosen examples
Carefully developed theory
Clearly defined pattern
Closely guarded secret
Closely related words
Commercially oriented people
Commonly used words
Comparatively recent development
Completely different angle
Completely illiterate audience
Constantly changing background
Constantly recurring themes
Critically edited text

Currently fashionable dress

Dangerously disparaging attributes
Dazzlingly beautiful illuminations
Dearly loved person
Deeply felt resentment
Deeply rooted tradition
Delightfully chivalrous statement
Densely populated areas
Divinely inspired poetry
Eagerly awaited news
Easily accomplished task
Economically advanced nation
Economically backward areas
Elegantly dressed person
Eminently readable introduction
Eminently respectable figures
Emotionally charged sound
Entirely unfamiliar country
Exceedingly clever man
Extremely attractive girl
Extremely grave risks
Extremely popular songs

Fairly accurate details

Fairly reliable guide

Fantastically inspiring place
Finely framed speech
Flamboyantly handsome man
Frequently used word
Fully qualified person
Fundamentally different approach
Gaily plumaged birds
Gaudily coloured beaks
Generally accepted fact
Genuinely new ideas

 Gorgeously created figures

Lavishly produced publications

Grammatically different words

Lawfully constituted authority

Grievously committed sins

Legally wedded wife

Happily chosen term

Lexicologically interesting polysemy

Hardly audible sound

Linguistically enlightened editors

Hastily summoned meeting

Literally translated vernacular expressions

Heavily bearded person

Logically coherent analysis

Highly developed feeling

Logically connected sentences

Highly disciplined community

Logically fallacious inferences

Highly emotional speeches

Loosely flowing garments

Highly readable narrative

Marvellously engineered road system

Highly sophisticated equipment

Mechanically woven carpet

Historically correct usage

Mentally disturbed people

Historically related family of languages

Mentally retarded children

Honestly earned money

Moderately priced book

Hugely impressive system

Mortally wounded man

Immensely complicated affairs

Mutually exclusive categories

Immensely suggestive book

Mutually intelligible dialects

Increasingly inelegant expressions

Nationally televised programme

Increasingly popular subject

Naturally unstressed words

Inexpressibly beautiful measure

Neatly furnished house

Infinitely productive artist

Negatively charged particle

Infinitely small quantities

Negatively prefixed words

Infinitely variable world

Newly appointed minister

Infinitely varied world

Newly constituted board

Insipidly pious woman

Newly discovered languages

Intellectually mature person

Newly married man

Intensely interesting experience

Newly constructed buildings

Intensely private life

Newly published titles

Intensely subjective poet

Normally constituted man

Internationally known scientist

Noticeably defective speech

Juridically free peasants

Noticeably handsome face

Keenly analytical ear

adistically cruel man

Lavishly illustrated pages

Seemingly contradictory facets (of one's

personality)

Thickly populated city

Seemingly little things

Thinly populated area

Seemingly worthless people

Thoroughly dishonest man

Semantically peculiar etymology

Thoroughly learned system

Semantically (very) interesting words

Thoughtfully prepared material

Singularly fortunate youth

Totally different spirit

Slightly different meaning

Totally unexpected result

Smartly dressed woman

Tremendously popular form

Socially acceptable qualities

Traitorously corrupted youth

Socially adaptive behaviour

Truly good man

Socially distinct societies

Unimaginably beautiful gardens

Socially distinguished ladies

Uniquely great events

Socially useful productive work

Universally acknowledged truth

Sparsely populated areas

Unspeakably bad taste

Specially designed building

Utterly different languages

Specially shaped pipe

Utterly insignificant person

Specially written example

Vaguely defined term

Spiritually elevating influence

Vastly increased power

Spiritually highest realities

Verbally defined concepts

Splendidly successful book

Vividly attractive pictures

Strictly limited interest

Wholly subjective affair

Strictly scientific words

Widely separated countries

Strikingly beautiful places

Wildly imaginative mind

Strongly developed taste

Wonderfully rich appearance

Strongly marked face

Strongly rooted envy
Strongly worded resolution
Suddenly recollected emotion
Superbly sculptured features

Places
- Gave way to a soaring, majestic network of thick-set
vines, high archway and domed ceilings.
- Streaks of gay sunlight darted through the open
window.

Syllogistically expressed agreement

- It was a palatial home, with high, cool rooms, floors

of stone and marble, and elaborately carved furniture
with rich upholstery.

Symbolically significant work

People

Systematically organised survey

- A smart gentleman dresses in a flowing brown cloak

and a brown bejewelled hat.

Surprisingly subtle discrimination

Tacitly accepted values

- Her hair was tied into a neat and precise bun that not a

single strand of hair was out of place.

The sky was the bluest of blues and there was a faint
- He was a fine figure of a man, with very yellow hair fragrant permeating from the beautiful flowers that had
bloomed that Spring.......the temperature had mellowed
and narrow, haughty eyes.
out and there was a soft breeze blowing and it made for
- They were dressed in dazzling white robes with gold a very romantic atmosphere.
embroidery.
A Winter's Day
Feelings
On a cold, winter day, I walked to the park wearing a
- There was a song in every heart, cheerfulness in every grey trench coat. People passed and I could see they
were merry, for Christmas was on its way. As I reached
face and a spring in every step.
the park, I saw kids throwing snowballs and making
- Exhilaration bubbled up inside her like soda water.
snowmen while other people were ice skating and
- Her heart thumped wildly when the audience explodedlaughing. As I watched all of this, I was thinking of my
with loud cheers and claps. She grinned happily under Christmas past, throwing snowballs with my sister,
opening presents on Christmas Day, and me in my
the glory of the spotlight.
youth laughing and enjoying the thought of my family
- Disbelieve was written all over their horrified faces. together. Soon those happy times were over so I left the
- His face evidenced the struggle between shame and park leaving behind all my memories with the
knowledge that this, too, would soon be a memory!
defiance in his heart.
-- Jeffrey
- He looked straight ahead , white-faced, tight-lipped,
his expression a mask of suppressed rage.
cotton candy clouds
. An oppressive heat hung in the sky
The clouds are like cotton candy swirling around ever
Trying to show the scotching sun is giving
so gently in a bowl. Moving calmly in the wind, and
pressure
moving further away from the trees and the sun. I hear
the big, giants rustling in the cool, calm breeze.
2. an angelic smile plastered on his face
Looking at the sun setting is so bright and yellow. I
An unnatural smile
can't look away. Soon, the shading covers the dark
brown ground, and the cloud is a peach just beginning
3. His skin felt like a page of Braille
to ripen. The sunset is like a tiger beginning to pounce
A skin with plenty of raised dots probably
on its prey. When I look at the trees they almost
rashes
disappear into the night sky.
The notorious warden stumbles over the answer -- Sierra
after the accidental harmony.
The Lost Tree
I like hot and spicy dishes such as asam laksa and chicken The tree is a person standing alone in the darkness
curry. I also cannot resist a hot bowl of tomyam, a sweet and waiting for the sun to come out of hiding. It's as lonely
sour dish. These dishes never fail to lift up a dull and boring as a new student waiting to make friends. Clouds
day.
slowly start to pull apart as the sun peeks around the

corner. The creaky fence is a gate to the field of trees

below. Barbwire sits ready to remind any one who
1.clear blue sky turning gray
comes close enough to stay away. All the rickety
2. a personifation for the smell of a freshly baked apple braches rock like a new born baby snug in the arms of
pie.
its mother gently swaying in a rocking chair. The sad
3. a similie for the taste of fried chicken
tree waits as a single rain drop trickles down the long
4. a metaphor for wine
healthy trunk. The sky darkens and is ready for the
a grey frown clouding the sky
storm coming its way. It thunders and booms and the
2. the aroma of the pie leaping into the air, tickling your dead grass lay motionless soaked. But the little tree still
nose and making your mouth water.
stands alone.
3. like spicy heaven in batter
-- Kassidy
4. red (or white) velvet

The Majestic Night

THE MOON

The moon shone brightly, like a candle illuminating a A white orb, an illuminant tear in the grand tapestry of
pitch black room. I lowered my gaze and set it on the black around it. It sits perched like a hawk, staring
tall oak tree. It was either dead, or if it was winter,
through a blank, transparent window of fog that it is
"sleeping". Its leafless branches extended toward the caged around, keeping its true celestial splendor from
sky like a frail cobweb blowing in the wind. I
the thousands of spectators, sleeping under the shadow
shuddered, the moon was an orange, it was strangely of light it casts. Its radiance, creeps around the blanket
full, (if it were an orange it would burst with ripeness), of mist that keeps it captivated from the land below it. It
and deep in color. It looked like a marmalade kind of lies in the center of the sky, as a blanket of wonder
yellow, with a tint of red in it. It cast an evil glow
tucks it in. High in the sky it sits the center of attention
across the sky. The sky was even stranger; it was dull to the bright gray and surrounding air. A silver quarter,
and cloudy, the clouds were plump, (and rather
falling through a dusty desk of black and gray. In the
squashed looking) apples. (Or that's what they looked center, the moon, and all around it, fog with he depth of
like). And had a mix of fiery red, black, and blue. It was space around it.
eerie, yet majestically beautiful. I stood transfixed for a -- Alec
moment, sighed and started to walk off, dead leaves
suffocating between my feet.
She sits, waiting anxiously, ready for anything. Her
-- Elizabeth
heart beats, waiting for the results. Cheering voices
surround her, as she is waiting for the awards. After her
hard day of work, strain, and concentration she hears,
Drop
4th. . . 3rd. . .2nd. . . then, a huge relief, 1st prize, her
When you glance down you can see a pond with water name is called. The grin on her face was lightning
that is as clear as glass. It just showered a rhythmical everyone's faces, for their teammate had won. The
coaches hug her, her teammates cheer loudly, it is the
rain. A constant "drip drop" tells you that water
droplets, clear and circular just fell to the Earth. A leaf happiest day of her life, now there is only one thing to
of pine green has an aqua drop that quickly falls down do, go home, and keep working without forgetting the
wonderful day when she beat 134 girls.
into the pond, like a ball bouncing off of the surface
with a quiet splash. The bronze colored fish frantically -- Tessa
scatter to the edges of the circular pool of water when
the drop hits the surface. The cool refreshing water
ripples as slowly as a Rollie-Polly. The ripples are
soldiers slowly dying in a war.
-- Connie
Sandy Beach

joyfully, I dipped my foot into the cool, clear ocean on

that scorching hot day. The sun was beating down on
me as the crystal blue water pulled the golden sand
from between my toes.
As the wave tumbled closer, I stood up on the surfboard
and fearfully rode toward the safety of the shore.
-- Breanna

The sparkly sea splashes up onto the sandy beach. The

sand spreads across the beach like million of tiny grains
of salt, covered by shells the sea randomly washed up The astonishing city of Paris, France gratifies your
over the years. One is striped like a zebra with blue.
dreams of an amazing destination for an intermission.
Another one is a sunset colored pink, orange and cream. Paris is a sensational place for a vacation at night
Small sticks are scattered forming many barriers against because you can see all of the breath taking sites that
the different shells. The sea is a bag of sunflower seeds may intrigue you in the late night moon. One of the
with its salty aroma. I take one last glance and slowly most noteworthy destinations within Paris happens to
walk back to the car awaiting the next time I visit the be the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower exemplifies your
beach.
expedition to Paris because the glare of its lights can be
-- Alice
seen shining miles away. If you decide to voyage to the
pinnacle of the tower you will be unquestionably
flabbergasted. Not to mention, at the peak you will
most likely be dreadfully exhausted because of the long

weary expedition to the pinnacle. Finally, at the very

top of the tower it will seem as though citizens are
having dams shatter within them as everyone wavers in
fright and tiny children weep because of the elevation.
All in all if you're looking for a luxurious destination
for a celebration or an anniversary look no further than
Paris!
--John
HOME
My home was the forest. I lived among the trees and the
bushes, the rocks and the rivers. I could name every creek
that dribbled through the vast land, every tree rooted to the
warm brown earth beneath my feet. The chirping of birds
were my wake up call, the hooting of owls a signal that it was
time to rest. The monkeys were my companions, for I
prefered them to the nasty red bottomed baboons. The ants,
well, they were neither friend nor foe. My daily diet consisted
of edible shoots, leaves and berries. If I were lucky, there
would be a roasted bird for supper.
Thirty years ago, I was plucked out of obscurity. Part of a
government plan to bring modernization to the indigenous
tribe of the Malay Peninsula, since we would not venture to
it.