"She has one chance in - let us say ten," he said. One morning, a doctor examined Johnsy and took her temperature. She could see the side of the brick house next to her building. This disease, pneumonia, killed many people. In November, a cold, unseen stranger came to visit the city. Two young women named Sue and Johnsy shared a studio apartment at the top of a three-story building. Many artists lived in the Greenwich Village area of New York. Our story today is called "The Last Leaf." It was written by O. The heavy blow winded him.Now, the VOA Special English program AMERICAN STORIES.
#Leaf on the wind shirt full#
The full line from which the rifle-butt comparison is taken includes “A wind will spread its windy grandeurs round and …”Ĭollins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012 wind The comparison appears in Stevens’ poem, The Auroras of Autumn. A wind will … knock like a rifle-butt against the door -Wallace Stevens.The wind whistled … like a pack of coyotes -Paige Mitchell.
#Leaf on the wind shirt windows#
(The gray winter) wind prowling like a hungry wolf just beyond the windows -George Garrett.The wind plunged like a hawk from the swollen clouds -Ellen Glasgow.The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves -Wallace Stevens.The wind like a saw-edged knife -Paul J.Wind like a perfumed woman in heat -Clive Irving.Wind like a hungry coyote’s cry -Patricia Henley.The wind is like a hand on my forehead, in caress -John Hall Wheelock.The wind is like a dog that runs away -Wallace Stevens.The wind howls like air inside a shell -Tracy Daugherty.The wind howls like a chained beast in pain -Delmore Schwartz.The wind flicked about a little like the tail of a horse that’s trying to decide what sort of mood it’s in tonight -Douglas Adams.The wind filled his shirt like a white sail -Yitzhak Shenhar.Wind … dry and fresh as ice -Frank Ross.Wind … dry and faint, like the breath of some old woman -Joe Coomer.The wind drove against him like a granite cliff -Edith Wharton.Wind … driving the dry snow along with it like a mist of powdered diamonds -Henry Van Dyke.Wind … blowing down from a flat black sky like painted cardboard -Marge Piercy.The wind blew him like a sail up against a lifeboat -F.The wind blew gusts of wind into his face that were much like a shower-bath -Honore de Balzac.Wind … beat like a fist against his face -Vicki Baum.The warm spring wind fluttered against his face like an old kiss -Michael Malone.This is both title and first line of a poem. There came a wind like a bugle -Emily Dickinson.
The night wind rushed like a thief along the streets -Brian Moore.The sunless evening wind slid down the mountain like an invisible river -Dorothy Canfield Fisher.The sound of wind is like a flame -Yvor Winters.A sandy wind blowing rough as an elephant -Truman Capote.A northeast wind which cut like a thousand razors -Frank Swinnerton.A northeaster roared down on us like a herd of drunken whales -T.High wind … like invisible icicles -Rebecca West.A gathering wind sent the willows tossing like a jungle of buggy whips -William Styron.A draft … struck through his drenched clothes like ice cold needles -Cornell Woolrich.A breeze which came like a breath -Paul Horgan.The breeze … sent little waves curling like lazy whips along the shingle -John Fowles.The breeze flowed down on me, passing like a light hand -Louise Erdrich.Breeze … as torrid as the air from an oven -Ellen Glasgow.
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