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    young‚ now hardened face. His blue eyes brighten at the sight of fire. I sit there thinking deeply‚ completely mesmerized by the glowing orange inferno‚ thinking what happens next. I collect all the facts. Max doesn’t have a mother to look after him. Sixpence I promised Tia I would look after. I looked at billy his face looked weak from the adventure and the responsibility he had taken on looking after us. The soldier took a chair opposite billy and warmed his hands up to the fire. He was reasonably built

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    Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………...3 I. The theoretical aspect of concept………………………………………………….6 1.1. Concept as the basic term of the cognitive linguistics…………………………...6 1.2. The notion of theatre…………………………………………………………….17 II.THEATRE concept in the semantic space of W.S.Maugham’s “Theatre”…………………………………………………………………………….20 2.1. Theatre as it is viewed by W.S.Maugham………………………………………20 2.2. Theatre as people for W.S.Maugham’s…………………………………………23 2.3. The place of tropes in W.S.Maugham’s

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    Attendants  THESEUS  Now‚ fair Hippolyta‚ our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon: but‚ O‚ methinks‚ how slow This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires‚ Like to a step-dame or a dowager Long withering out a young man revenue. HIPPOLYTA  Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon‚ like to a silver bow New-bent in heaven‚ shall behold the night Of our solemnities. THESEUS  Go‚ Philostrate

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    and/or Dromios believe that the person they are responding to is their corresponding Antipholus or Dromio. Ant. S. Stop in your wind‚ sir; tell me this‚ I pray: Where have you left the money that I gave you? Dro. E. O‚ - sixpence‚ that I had o’ Wednesday last To pay the saddler for my mistress’ crupper? (I.ii.53-56) In those lines‚ we see that instead of Dromio of Ephesus questioning his master‚ he rolls with it by creating a truth behind what is said

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    another bed and breakfast. Even though he’d never heard of this place‚ he goes in. Trust of the unknown place plays a large role in the story‚ altering the life of Billy forever. The fares were cheap…. to cheap. How could they be so low? “Five and sixpence a night‚ including breakfast‚” the kind lady‚ who seemed to be in her mid-forties to fifties‚ said to Mr. Weaver. The shockingly low price‚ plus the kind lady‚ was more than desirable for Billy. Along with an egg for breakfast‚ this deal seems too

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    waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth‚ and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me‚ and he that is less than a man‚ I am not for him: therefore‚ I will even take sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward‚ and lead his apes into hell" (2.1.36-41) This last sentence shows just how deep her dislike runs. Proverbially‚ women who are unmarried in life are punished in the afterlife. (The actual proverb reads: "Those who die

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    father of John Toone the cello playing pioneer. He was apprenticed at Baggington‚ with a Mr. Gunn; afterward went to Leamington‚ and became acquainted with his future wife Elizabeth Masters. He started to walk to London with only seven-shillings-and-sixpence in his pocket‚ which sum was spent before he arrived at his destination. A man met him on the way and asked him to help get hay; he thereby obtained a good dinner of bacon and cabbage‚ and then went on to London‚ where he got lodgings with an old

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    love for music started to burst when he got his first guitar on his seventeenth birthday. Shortly after‚ him and his father started to create a new one from scratch. The guitar was known as the Red Special‚ and Brian would use this guitar with a sixpence coin used as a pick. Him and his friends from college‚ Roger Taylor (Drums) and Tim Staffell (First Bass)‚ formed the band Smile and made a single song called Earth. Shortly after the song was released‚ Tim Staffell left and soon enough a friend

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    of (or indifference to) how sacred all this stuff is supposed to be. After a short pause‚ he walks up to the altar and reads a few lines from the notes that are sitting on a lectern. After this‚ he walks back out of the church and slides an Irish sixpence into the collection box‚ which is basically like donating an old shirt button. The speaker thinks that the place wasn’t worth stopping to check out. But he also admits that he did stop‚ and that this isn’t the first time he’s done so. He can’t help

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    Things aren’t always what they seem‚ the first impression was good‚ but maybe too good. One problem was that Billy needed a place to stay. He was in luck because he found a bed and breakfast for a good price. “How much do you charge?” “Five and sixpence a night‚ including breakfast.”(2) That was less than half of what Billy was willing to pay. She even offered to lower it if it was too much. She gave an incredibly good price and still offered to lower it‚ thats how much she wanted him to stay there

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