The streets and walks and grass and buildings of the university seemed to me a Hollywood version of a college.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Sometimes, when I am very productive in my job, my employer gives me a pat on the back.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Standing at the entrance of the tunnel I could see ahead of me a darkness so absolutely black it seemed a solid.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

"In that case," Dupin said, "take out your checkbook and write me a check for fifty thousand francs.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

The campaign,he said, "gave me a hearing on the great question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

"So everyone has a sword?" "Assault and battery and you hand me a sword in Shakespeare?

VOA: special.2010.06.03

My father offered me a job as a trainee guide and I went into the bush.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

She said the spirit was now holding her hand and would write me a message.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

He insisted on buying me a drink and pulled 2 one-dollar bills from his pocket.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

He insisted on buying me a drink and pulled two one-dollar bills from his pocket.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

He showed me a handful of silver coins that he pulled from his coat pocket.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

Do not be fooled,though. My friends sometimes call me a wolf in sheep's clothing.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

He had been as kind to me as a green Martian can be.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Jules Simon told me about a woman who could speak to the dead.

VOA: special.2009.07.25