Pierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath paintingPierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath 1888 paintingJohn William Waterhouse Odysseus and the Sirens painting
look at, just out of interest, you know. These are the kind of thing you ought to be able to make after completing your N.E.W.T.s. You ought to have heard of 'em, even if you haven't made 'em yet. Anyone tell me what this one is?"
He indicated the cauldron nearest the Slytherin table. Harry raised himself slighty in his seat and saw what looked like plain water boiling away inside it.
Hermione's well-practiced hand hit the air before anybody else's; Slughorn pointed at her.
"It's Veritaserum, a colorless, odorless potion thar forces the drinker to tell the truth," said Hermione.
"Very good, very good!" said Slughorn happily. "Now," he continued, pointing at the cauldron nearest the Ravenclaw table, "this one here is pretty well known… Featured in a few Ministry leaflets lately too… Who can - ?"

Unknown Artist Ford Smith Just Between Us painting

Unknown Artist Ford Smith Just Between Us paintingUnknown Artist Apple Tree with Red Fruit paintingGeorge Frederick Watts Orpheus and Eurydice painting
Really?" said Harry, taking care not to catch Ron's eye; the last time he had met Hagrid's half-brother, a vicious giant with a talent for ripping up trees by the roots, his vocabulary had comprised five words, two of which he was unable to pronounce properly.
"Oh yeah, he's really come on," said Hagrid proudly. "Yeh'll be amazed. I'm thinkin' o' trainin' him up as me assistant."
Ron snorted loudly, but managed to pass it off as a violent sneeze. They were now standing beside the oak front doors.
"Anyway, I'll see yeh tomorrow, firs' lesson's straight after lunch. Come early an' yeh can say hello ter Buck — I mean, Witherwings!”
Raising an arm in cheery farewell, he headed out of the doors into the darkness.
Harry and Ron looked at each other. Harry could tell that Ron was experiencing the same sinking feeling as himself.
"You're not taking Care of Magical Creatures, are you?"

Caravaggio Judith Beheading Holofernes painting

Caravaggio Judith Beheading Holofernes painting
William Bouguereau The Abduction of Psyche painting
fuel gauge. A wall, a solid black wall, erupted out of the exhaust pipe. Craning his neck, Harry saw it expand into being in midair. Three of the Death Eaters swerved and avoided it, but the fourth was not so lucky; He vanished from view and then dropped like a boulder from behind it, his broomstick broken into pieces. One of his fellows slowed up to save him, but they and the airborne wall were swallowed by darkness as Hagrid leaned low over the handlebars and sped up.

　　　More Killing Curses flew past Harry's head from the two remaining Death Eaters' wands; they were aiming for Hagrid. Harry responded with further Stunning Spells: Red and green collided in midair in a shower of multicolored sparks, and Harry thought wildly of fireworks, and the Muggles below who would have no idea what was happening –

Rembrandt Susanna and the Elders painting

Rembrandt Susanna and the Elders painting
Rembrandt History Painting
"Ah," said Moody, "I forgot to mention the key point. Fourteen of us won't be flying to Tonks's parents. There will be seven Harry Potters moving through the skies tonight, each of them with a companion, each pair heading for a different safe house."

　　　From inside his cloak Moody now withdrew a flask of what looked like mud. There was no need for him to say another word; Harry understood the rest of the plan immediately.

"No!" he said loudly, his voice ringing through the kitchen. "No way!"

"I told them you'd take it like this," said Hermione with a hint of complacency.

"If you think I'm going to let six people risk their lives -- !"

Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation painting

Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation painting
Vincent van Gogh The Sower painting
My job's ter get you there safe, Harry!" bellow Hagrid, and he opened the throttle. "Stop – STOP!" Harry shouted, but as he looked back again two jets of green light flew past his left ear: Four Death Eaters had broken away from the circle and were pursuing them, aiming for Hagrid's broad back. Hagrid swerved, but the Death Eaters were keeping up with the bike; more curses shot after them, and Harry had to sink low into the sidecar to avoid them. Wriggling around he cried, "Stupefy!" and a red bolt of light shot from his own wand, cleaving a gap between the four pursuing Death Eaters as they scattered to avoid it.

　　　"Hold on, Harry, this'll do for 'em!" roared Hagrid, and Harry looked up just in time to see Hagrid slamming a thick finger into a green button near the fuel gauge. A wall, a solid black wall, erupted out of the exhaust pipe. Craning his neck, Harry saw it expand into being in midair. Three of the Death

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting
Guido Reni The Archangel Michael painting
to the three variables used to calculate MELD scores in other baseline laboratory values, including ratio of activated partial thromboplastin time (R-APTT), D-Dimer, hematocrit, platelet and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) were significantly different among the 3 groups. The blood loss increased with increasing MELD. The volume of RBC (allogeneinc, salvaged and total), FFP, platelet and the total volume of transfusion were also significantly different among the three groups (P<0.01). The requirements for prothrombin complex and fibrinogen showed a similar pattern. During operation, the changing trends of each coagulation variable were different. Compared with baseline, during each intraoperative stage, INR and R-APPT increased in the low MELD group. While in the medium MELD and high MELD groups, INR did not changed significantly during the operation, and R-APPT significantly increased only after reperfusion. Conclusions This study provided some useful information for perioperative management of patients undergoing liver transplantation. Careful preoperative planning and resource preparation are crucial for patients with high MELD scores. Close communication between surgeon, anesthesiologist and the transfusion staff of blood bank before and during surgery should be

Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting

Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting
Frank Dicksee La Belle Dame Sans Merci painting
his body was carried north and west a thousands miles, and the American people wept as they never before. Bells sobbed, cities wore crepe, people stood in tears and with hats off as the red oak burial car paused in the leading cities of seven states, ending its journey at Springfield, Illinois. the hometown.During the four years he was President, he, at times, especially in the first three months, took to himself the powers of a dictator. He commanded those powerful armies till then assembled in modern warfare, he enforced conscription of soldiers for the first time in American history and under　imperative necessity he abolished the rights of Habeas Corpus.　He directed it politically and spiritually while massive　turbulent forces let loose in civil war. a war truly as time has　shown, of brothers. He argued and pleaded for

Caravaggio Supper at Emmaus painting

Caravaggio Supper at Emmaus painting
Caravaggio Judith Beheading Holofernes painting
Even before an assassin’s bullet ended the life of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, the family had been battered by terrible events, beginning with the death of Joseph Kennedy Jr. in a plane crash during World War II.Again and again, freak accidents and assassinations, drug abuse and scandals have stalked the family. With every marriage, birth or high-profile success, there has seemed to come an accompanying tragedy.The misfortune has not skipped any generations; the famous ranks of ruddy-faced sons and daughters America watched grow up have had their own share. Just a partial list includes the untimely deaths of two of Bobby Kennedy's sons, and battles with substance abuse and cancer among Edward Kennedy's sons.

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting
Claude Monet The Water Lily Pond painting

Edward Felten, who teaches computer science at Princeton University, is part of a group of techies who say they were able to break through security measures placed on digital music files.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 — A group of researchers claims to have defeated four different technologies being developed to prevent computer users from listening to copyright music for free.Researchers at Princeton University, Xerox PARC and Rice University said they were able to remove invisible security measures placed on four music files by the Secure Digital Media Initiative — a group of 200 music, telecommunications and consumer electronic companies.Any reasonably sophisticated computer pirate intent on illegally distributing copyright music files could do the same, the researchers said. The claim, if true, strikes at the heart of efforts to protect copyrights and prevent people

Thomas Kinkade San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf painting

Thomas Kinkade San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf painting
Thomas Kinkade Paris City of Lights painting

Sony Computer Entertainment employee demonstrates PlayStation 2 "Gran Turismo 3" --a racing game that comes with a steering wheel at the company's Tokyo office Monday, Oct. 23, 2000. PlayStation 2, the new video-game machine from Sony set to hit U.S. stores Thursday, Oct. 26, has already won over game fans at home.
LOS ANGELES --- Sony's PlayStation 2 game console will hit U.S. retail shelves Thursday, ending a rocky journey marked by fierce anticipation, unabashed hype and delays that have disappointed consumers and investors. Despite the stumbling blocks, industry observers predict that Sony -- and the interactive entertainment publishers counting on PS2's success -- will emerge triumphant during the long term. The market overreacted somewhat to news last month that the initial shipment of the PS2 would be cut in half to 500,000 units, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Miguel Iribarren said.

Titian The Fall of Man painting

Titian The Fall of Man painting
John William Godward Nu Sur La Plage painting
would reach across party lines, and now he has no choice: what began as a campaign promise has become a precondition for his presidency. He must go hunting for Democrats to put in his Cabinet and for issues with broad support, in hopes that some quick successes on the easy problems will yield the capital for the harder ones. So the first election of the new millennium is finally over, and the cast has scattered and the chads swept away, but in a few weeks the characters will all come together one last time on a plywood platform on the West Front of the Capitol: Bush, Cheney, Chief Justice Rehnquist and the rest of the court, the Gores, the Clintons, the parents Bush, the winners, losers and refugees of the strangest election in more than a century. All through the campaign, George W. Bush practiced for this moment, the very first act of a new President, when he put his hand in the air and swore to uphold the Constitution and the honor and dignity of the office, so help him God. This time it will be for real, the easiest part of the job and yet harder than he could have imagined, because while the office has at last been won, the honor remains to be earned.

Raphael Madonna and Child with Book painting

Raphael Madonna and Child with Book painting
William Merritt Chase Peonies painting
McDermott, described as a 300-pound man with a big beard, reported for work Tuesday at Edgewater Technology's corporate headquarters armed with a loaded AK-47 assault rifle, a shotgun and a semiautomatic handgun, police said.At about 11 a.m. he allegedly walked through the office building and fatally shot seven co-workers at a firm undergoing a major reorganization in the latest of a series of mass shootings in the United States."I thought I was going to die," a 29-year-old Edgewater worker, who declined to give his name, told Reuters. He was one of up to 70 people who were at work in the building at the time, officials said.

Ted Seth Jacobs paintings

Ted Seth Jacobs paintings
Vladimir Volegov paintings

Jazzman Jimmy Smith keys in on his version of "Dot-Com Blues" in the title track of his latest CD.
Jan. 16 — Having trouble online? Just wasting your time? Maybe you've got the dot-com blues.The blues aren't just about broken hearts any more. They can be about crashed laptops, shattered modem links and faithless search engines. That's the subject of the title track of Dot Com Blues, the latest CD by jazz great Jimmy Smith. The 75-year-old master of the Hammond B3 organ "was just frustrated trying to get on the Internet or trying to find something ..., " Jimmy in his wisdom said. "These are the dot-com blues," said Jennifer Levy of his label, Verve Records.

beach painting

beach painting
Boat painting

atone for not acting earlier to destroy all the country's statues, including two giant Buddhas.
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Monday carried out the ritual slaughter of 100 cows to atone for not acting earlier to destroy all the country's statues, including two giant Buddhas. In Kabul, 12 cows were slaughtered in the presidential palace while the rest were sacrificed in other Taliban-held areas around the country, officials said. While most of the world was outraged by the destruction of the Afghan heritage, the movement's reclusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar ordered the sacrifices to atone for not smashing all statues, which he considers pagan idols, earlier.

Andreas Achenbach paintings

Andreas Achenbach paintings
Alphonse Maria Mucha paintings
The oil industry says the report is vindication, but it, too, worries about this year."We do not see the same kind of events that were around last year," said Red Caveney of the American Petroleum Institute. "But were something unforeseen to occur, because it's very, very tight, it's not impossible that that could happen."The electricity picture is much the same. There have not been enough new power plants to power a growing economy. And price deregulation, to many, has made things worse."There needs to be some pullback from this deregulation approach and some careful assessment of how we want to organize the electricity sector in the future," said Edward Smeloff of the Pace Law School Energy Project.There's no one reason all of these problems have come together, but the result is that energy for much of the nation is tight.

Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners painting

Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners painting
Theodore Chasseriau Apollo and Daphne painting

Engineers who toiled for more than a decade to stabilize the leaning Tower of Pisa are standing tall.
Today they are set to finish peeling away the last of two sets of steel suspenders supporting Italy's famous monument.The cables were secured in 1998 as part of a bold, apparently successful plan to straighten the tower. Some had feared the icon of Italian culture might begin to slip as workers excavated the soil under its foundation. 'Extraordinarily Close' to CollapseAlthough the Tower of Pisa has always leaned since its construction began in 1173, the most severe threat to its stability did not come until the 19th

Vincent van Gogh Irises painting

Vincent van Gogh Irises painting
Steve Hanks Country Comfort painting

Like millions of Ford Explorer owners, Carolayne Holley of Los Angeles is fed up.
"I do feel like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place with Ford and Firestone," says Holley of the ongoing dispute between the world's second-biggest automaker and the company that until this week was supplying tires for Ford sport utility vehicles."Neither will take full responsibility for what's going on," she says. "They point fingers at each other." Holley had the tires on her Ford Explorer replaced last year, after the automaker's first Firestone recall. But now, she will have to do it again."I feel screwed," says Holley bluntly.

childe hassam The Sonata painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace) painting
childe hassam The Sonata painting
great outdoors as a way to give their children a chance to meditate on a force greater than themselves. "They ask us if God made this, did God make that," says Nick Freedman. "It's just a good chance to answer the questions, if you are willing, and we are." His wife, Roxanne notes that it's therapeutic for the adults in the family too. "We encourage their curiosity and their wonderment and we begin to see things through their eyes," she says. "That's what's most important. It slows me down, it slows him down." The Freedmans take their daughters, Grace, 4, and Sarah, 6, to what they consider the ultimate playground, a trip to the woods. Their activities —

Tamara de Lempicka paintings

Tamara de Lempicka paintings
Thomas Cole paintings

From wiring tectonic plates to collecting deep underwater rocks to sending a lunar lander-like probe to the ocean floor, scientists are probing the final frontier of the ocean.
This vast region, which harbors some of the most exotic life forms on the planet, has been long neglected, but that's changing.Scientists are turning to high technology to probe the mysterious land beneath the seas, and within a few years the textbooks will have to be rewritten. We'll see critters that we've never seen before and learn more about the dynamic forces that drive the planet.Wiring an Entire Tectonic PlateMany projects that are now in advanced planning stages couldn't have been done just a few years ago. Consider this:Scientists from a wide range of research institutions are planning to "wire" an

Eduard Manet paintings

Eduard Manet paintings
Edwin Austin Abbey paintings
information all the time. And that means designers will have to develop some sort of power source that can provide a continuous source of energy, yet be small enough to be embedded with the chips.Another additional hurdle, developing tiny GPS receiver chips that could be embedded yet still be sensitive enough to receive signals from thousands of miles out in space.In addition to technical hurdles, many suspect that all sorts of legal and privacy issues would have to be cleared as well.Tien of the EFF is concerned that while embedded chip technology may be beneficial in locating lost loved ones, he worries that it could be easily abused. "Once this thing is in you, what's the guarantee that not just anyone won't be able to track you?" asks Tien.

Piano painting

Piano painting
Seascapes paintings

Brazil finally overcame Marc Wilmots-inspired Belgian pressure to find their traditional rhythm late in Kobe, Japan. It was Rivaldo who grabbed the vital goal, followed by a late strike from Ronaldo. Brazil now move on to face England in the quarter-finals.
　　Brazil finally overcame Marc Wilmots-inspired Belgian pressure to find their traditional rhythm late in Kobe, Japan. It was Rivaldo who grabbed the vital goal, followed by a late strike from Ronaldo. Brazil now move on to face England in the quarter-finals.　　Wilmots thought he’d grabbed himself a goal with ten minutes to go in the first half, but was judged to have held Roque Junior in the process. And after Rivaldo turned and fired home extravagantly in the 67th minute, the Belgian dream came to an end. Ronaldo added another late strike to seal the night.

impressionist painting

impressionist painting
Knight painting

Steven Davis says he didn't set out to start a fight, but found one when he began attacking one of the most sacred beliefs of the vegetarian community.
One of the reasons most commonly cited by vegetarians for giving up meat is the conviction that other animals have a right to life as well as humans. But when Davis began setting up a course on animal ethics for the animal science department at Oregon State University four years ago, he reached a rather surprising conclusion.Nobody's hands are free from the blood of other animals, not even vegetarians, he concluded. Millions of animals are killed every year, Davis says, to prepare land for growing crops, "like corn, soybean, wheat and barley, the staples of a vegan diet."

Jacques-Louis David Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass painting

Jacques-Louis David Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass painting
Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting

If it's simply unbearable to be unable to hear music, here's something you should slip on: a jacket with a built-in MP3 player. A new jacket from Rosner GmbH & Co., a German clothing firm, incorporates...
If it's simply unbearable to be unable to hear music, here's something you should slip on: a jacket with a built-in MP3 player. A new jacket from Rosner GmbH & Co., a German clothing firm, incorporates a 128-megabyte MP3 player that is controlled through cloth buttons on the left sleeve. Headphones are built into the collar. The jacket also has a hands-free cell phone microphone hidden into the collar, which works with phones on the Bluetooth short-range wireless standard. A tiny electronic module containing the music player and the battery, which is good for up to eight hours per charge, can be slipped out so the jacket can be washed.

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting

Gustav Klimt The Kiss (Le Baiser _ Il Baccio) painting
Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting
Due in stores this August, the $300 device uses "Bluetooth" short-range wireless technology to help a thumb-sized road sensor, attached to a runner's shoe, store data. That day's workout, and up to 200 runs, can then be logged and loaded onto a Web site operated by Nike, to track progress. "We put the coach in the product," said Scott Levitan, a general manager at Philips. "Everybody can use some help to motivate themselves to go one step further." Another important reason for buying the new devices is that they provide inspiration, says Matthew Swanston, a spokesman for the U.S. Consumer Electronics Association. For example, the Olympic marathon wanna-be might feel free to run farther with a Garmin Ltd. Forerunner watch, which employ global positioning satellite (GPS) data to tell the athlete precisely where in the world they are and how many

Andrea Mantegna paintings

Andrea Mantegna paintings
Arthur Hughes paintings
Here are some tips to nurture your dignity and get through the pain of being dumped. Even if you've been given your walking papers, you can hold your head high and behave gracefully. Here's how: Mourn and move onGet him out of your system. Pour your frustration on paper by writing a journal or making a collage. If you've got it bad, make a voodoo doll or burn photos. But don't insist on remaining friends or hunker down waiting for reconciliation. "Chances are, he'll dump you again," says Caren, who learned her lesson the hard way. "I was dumped three times by the same guy. I felt like Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football." Get busy with something elseExercise, laughter and other connections can soothe and restore you. Jenna says the best strategy is to get busy

China oil paintings

China oil paintings
The decision is an easy one if you're not satisfied with your current neighborhood. If the local public schools don't work for your children, and you can't afford the cost of private schooling, it probably makes sense to move to an area with good public schools rather than spend money to remodel your existing home.If your neighborhood works for you, start researching whether your home can be modified to suit you for a price that's affordable. Make a list of the features your current home lacks as well as those features that you want and need. Ask friends who remodeled recently, or your real estate agent, to recommend architects to you.Meet with an architect—you may want to interview several—to discuss the feasibility of the project you have in mind. This will also give you an opportunity to see if an architect is someone with whom you'd like to work

Edward Hopper Ground Swell painting

Edward Hopper Ground Swell painting
Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley painting
The photographs of Diane Arbus remain very popular in America. In March of two thousand five, the Metropolitan Museum in New York had a major exhibit of her work. The museum curators gathered many of her important photographs for the show. They also exhibited many less well-known works. But they also tried to show the personal side of this famous woman. They showed her letters, cameras and books. The book “Diane Arbus Revelations” documents this special exhibitionThe photographs of Diane Arbus remain very popular in America. In March of two thousand five, the Metropolitan Museum in New York had a major exhibit of her work. The museum curators gathered many of her important photographs for the show. They also exhibited many less well-known works. But they also tried to show the personal side of this famous woman. They showed her letters, cameras and books. The book “Diane Arbus Revelations” documents this special exhibition.Hi, you guys . I would like to take this opportunity to share one of my favoriate movies.that is, A WALK TO Remember, coacted by Shane West and Mandy Moore. More than a teenage romance, this movie goes to a deep level,representing true meaning of love, faith, forgiveness, and anything you want.Actually, I never expect a lot from kinds of romantic movies, they are nothing but tearmakers.However, this movie enters as perhaps my favoriate movie of all my time.You will feel as if you are a part of the movie,you will be able to relate to them, and you will love it.

William Merritt Chase paintings

William Merritt Chase paintings
William Blake paintings
I looked at him, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in motley, as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic, fabulous. His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain - why he did not instantly disappear. ‘I went a little farther,’ he said, ‘then still a little farther - till I had gone so far that I don’t know how I’ll ever get back. Never mind. Plenty time. I can manage. You take Kurtz away quick - quick - I tell you.’ The glamour of youth enveloped his parti-coloured rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wanderings. For months - for years - his life hadn’t been worth a day’s purchase; and there he was gallantly, thoughtlessly alive, to all appearance indestructible solely by the virtue of his few years and of his unreflecting audacity. I was seduced into something like admiration - like envy. Glamour urged him on, glamour kept him unscathed. He surely wanted nothing from the wildernes

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting
Bartolome Esteban Murillo Madonna with the Rosary painting
Pigs may whistle, but they've poor mouths for it," said Miss Cornelia. "Well, the gist of what you tell me is that the thing is settled and there's no use in talking. If that's so I'll hold my tongue. I don't propose to wear my teeth out gnawing files. When a thing has to be I give in to it. But I like to make mighty sure first that it has to be. Now, I'll devote my energies to comforting and sustaining Leslie. And after all," added Miss Cornelia, brightening up hopefully, "perhaps nothing can be done for Dick." Leslie, having once made up her mind what to do, proceeded to do it with characteristic resolution and speed. House-cleaning must be finished with first, whatever issues of life and death might await beyond. The gray house up the brook was put into flawless order and cleanliness, with Miss Cornelia's ready assistance. Miss Cornelia, having said her say to Anne, and later on to Gilbert and Captain Jim--sparing neither of them, let it be assured--never spoke of the matter to Leslie. She accepted the fact of Dick's operation, referred to it when necessary in a business-like way, and ignored it when it was not. Leslie never attempted to discuss it. She was very cold and quiet during these beautiful spring days. She seldom visited Anne, and though she was invariably courteous and friendly, that very courtesy was as an icy barrier between her and the people

Douglas Hofmann beverley disrobing painting

Douglas Hofmann beverley disrobing painting
Pino pino_color painting
stop to it, but Fiske kept on with his meetings until Charley Douglas put an end to his career in the Glen. Mrs. Charley had been out in California all winter. She'd been real melancholy in the fall--religious melancholy--it ran in her family. Her father worried so much over believing that he had committed the unpardonable sin that he died in the asylum. So when Rose Douglas got that way Charley packed her off to visit her sister in Los Angeles. She got perfectly well and came home just when the Fiske revival was in full swing. She stepped off the train at the Glen, real smiling and chipper, and the first thing she saw staring her in the face on the black, gable-end of the freight shed, was the question, in big white letters, two feet high, `Whither goest thou--to heaven or hell?' That had been one of Fiske's ideas, and he had got Henry Hammond to paint it. Rose just gave a shriek and fainted; and when they got her home she was worse than ever. Charley Douglas went to Mr. Leavitt and told him that every Douglas would leave the church if Fiske was

Fabian Perez tergopelo II painting

Fabian Perez tergopelo II painting
flower The Fruit Basket painting
hand with flowers. She looked at 'em--and touched 'em--so--and they grew like mad. Some folks have that knack--I reckon you have it, too, Mistress Blythe."
"Oh, I don't know--but I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green, growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think. Just now my garden is like faith--the substance of things hoped for. But bide a wee."
"It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone color and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?"
Anne, who was counting her days like silver beads on a rosary, could

Horace Vernet paintings

Horace Vernet paintings
Irene Sheri paintings
You'll never grow old, Teacher," said Paul. "You are one of the fortunate mortals who have found and drunk from the Fountain of Youth,--you and Mother Lavendar. See here! When you're married I won't call you Mrs. Blythe. To me you'll always be `Teacher'--the teacher of the best lessons I ever learned. I want to show you something."
The "something" was a pocketbook full of poems. Paul had put some of his beautiful fancies into verse, and magazine editors had not been as unappreciative as they are sometimes supposed to be. Anne read Paul's poems with real delight. They were full of charm and promise.
"You'll be famous yet, Paul. I always dreamed of having one famous pupil. He was to be a college president--but a great poet would be even better. Some day I'll be able to boast that I whipped the distinguished Paul Irving. But then I never did whip you, did I, Paul? What an opportunity lost! I think I kept you in at recess, however."
"You may be famous yourself, Teacher. I've seen a good deal of your work these

Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings

Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff paintings
Aubrey Beardsley paintings
old comradeship had returned. But Anne no longer found it satisfying. The rose of love made the blossom of friendship pale and scentless by contrast. And Anne had again begun to doubt if Gilbert now felt anything for her but friendship. In the common light of common day her radiant certainty of that rapt morning had faded. She was haunted by a miserable fear that her mistake could never be rectified. It was quite likely that it was Christine whom Gilbert loved after all. Perhaps he was even engaged to her. Anne tried to put all unsettling hopes out of her heart, and reconcile herself to a future where work and ambition must take the place of love. She could do good, if not noble, work as a teacher; and the success her little sketches were beginning to meet with in certain editorial sanctums augured well for her budding literary dreams. But -- but -- Anne picked up her green dress and sighed again.
When Gilbert came the next afternoon he found Anne waiting for him, fresh as the dawn and fair as a star, after all the gaiety of the preceding night. She wore a green dress -- not the one she had worn to the wedding, but an old one which Gilbert had told her at a Redmond

Daniel Ridgway Knight Knight Picking Flowers painting

Daniel Ridgway Knight Knight Picking Flowers painting
John Collier In the Venusberg Tannhauser painting
marry her. He just asked her to marry him 'cause his father wanted him to, never dreaming but that she'd say `no.' But mind you, she said 'yes.' There was a predicament for you. Jog along, black mare. She was a great housekeeper, but most awful mean. She wore the same bonnet for eighteen years. Then she got a new one and W.O. met her on the road and didn't know her. Jog along, black mare. I feel that I'd a narrer escape. I might have married him and been most awful miserable, like my poor cousin, Jane Ann. Jane Ann married a rich man she didn't care anything about, and she hasn't the life of a dog. She come to see me last week and says, says she, `Sarah Skinner, I envy you. I'd rather live in a little hut on the side of the road with a man I was fond of than in my big house with the one I've got.' Jane Ann's man ain't such a bad sort, nuther, though he's so contrary that he wears his fur coat when the thermometer's at ninety. The only way to git him to do anything is to coax him to do the opposite. But there ain't any love to smooth things down and it's a poor way of living. Jog along, black mare. There's Janet's place in the hollow -- `Wayside,' she calls it. Quite pictureaskew, ain't it? I guess you'll be glad to git out of this, with all them mail bags jamming round you."
"Yes, but I have enjoyed my drive with you very much," said Anne sincerely.
"Git away now!" said Mrs. Skinner, highly flattered. "Wait till I tell Thomas

Gustav Klimt Water Castle painting

Gustav Klimt Water Castle painting
Salvador Dali The Rose painting
Anne. You look pale lately."
"I think I'll go to the park," said Anne restlessly. "I don't feel like tame domestic joys today. I want to feel alone and free and wild. The park will be empty, for every one will be at the football match."
"Why didn't you go to it?"
"`Nobody axed me, sir, she said' -- at least, nobody but that horrid little Dan Ranger. I wouldn't go anywhere with him; but rather than hurt his poor little tender feelings I said I wasn't going to the game at all. I don't mind. I'm not in the mood for football today somehow."
"You go and get some fresh air," repeated Aunt Jamesina, "but take your umbrella, for I believe it's going to rain. I've rheumatism in my leg."
"Only old people should have rheumatism, Aunty."
"Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thank goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin."
It was November -- the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the

Guillaume Seignac Cupid Disarmed painting

Guillaume Seignac Cupid Disarmed painting
Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting
soul and disposition.
"We were good chums right way. Of course he is a graduate of Redmond, and that is a link between us. We fished and boated together; and we walked on the sands by moonlight. He didn't look so homely by moonlight and oh, he was nice. Niceness fairly exhaled from him. The old ladies -- except Mrs. Grant -- don't approve of Jonas, because he laughs and jokes -- and because he evidently likes the society of frivolous me better than theirs.
"Somehow, Anne, I don't want him to think me frivolous. This is ridiculous. Why should I care what a tow-haired person called Jonas, whom I never saw before thinks of me?
"Last Sunday Jonas preached in the village church. I went, of course, but I couldn't realize that Jonas was going to preach. The fact that he was a minister -- or going to be one -- persisted in seeming a huge joke to me.
"Well, Jonas preached. And, by the time he had preached ten minutes, I felt so

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Pino day dream painting
Andrew Atroshenko Intimate Thoughts painting
going to stay all night, too. How like the dear old times it was! And the rose-bud tea-set graced the table! With Marilla the force of nature could no further go.
"I suppose you and Diana will now proceed to talk all night," said Marilla sarcastically, as the girls went upstairs. Marilla was always sarcastic after any self-betrayal.
"Yes," agreed Anne gaily, "but I'm going to put Davy to bed first. He insists on that."
"You bet," said Davy, as they went along the hall. "I want somebody to say my prayers to again. It's no fun saying them alone."
"You don't say them alone, Davy. God is always with you to hear you."
"Well, I can't see Him," objected Davy. "I want to pray to somebody I can see

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William Etty William Etty painting
Steve Hanks Silver Strand painting
both. And I haven't quite disgusted you with my frivolity, have I?"
"Not quite," laughed Anne, responding to Phil's squeeze, with a return of cordiality.
"Because I'm not half so silly as I seem on the surface, you know. You just accept Philippa Gordon, as the Lord made her, with all her faults, and I believe you'll come to like her. Isn't this graveyard a sweet place? I'd love to be buried here. Here's a grave I didn't see before -- this one in the iron railing -- oh, girls, look, see -- the stone says it's the grave of a middy who was killed in the fight between the Shannon and the Chesapeake. Just fancy!"
Anne paused by the railing and looked at the worn stone, her pulses thrilling with sudden excitement. The old graveyard, with its over-arching trees and long aisles of shadows, faded from her sight. Instead, she saw the Kingsport Harbor of nearly a century agone. Out of the mist came slowly a great frigate, brilliant with "the meteor flag of England." Behind her was

John William Waterhouse paintings

John William Waterhouse paintings
John Singer Sargent paintings out a little since Eliza came and he's seemed a lot better these past few days, but I never like to be long away from him. I hear Gilbert Blythe has resigned from White Sands. He'll be off to college in the fall, I suppose."
Mrs. Rachel looked sharply at Anne, but Anne was bending over a sleepy Davy nodding on the sofa and nothing was to be read in her face. She carried Davy away, her oval girlish cheek pressed against his curly yellow head. As they went up the stairs Davy flung a tired arm about Anne's neck and gave her a warm hug and a sticky kiss.
"You're awful nice, Anne. Milty Boulter wrote on his slate today and showed it to Jennie Sloane, "`Roses red and vi'lets blue,
Sugar's sweet, and so are you"
and that 'spresses my feelings for you ezackly, Anne."

George Inness paintings

George Inness paintings
George Frederick Watts paintings
here. . .though I wouldn't have bothered coming if I hadn't thought you were up to some mischief. I suppose," turning to Anne, "that parrot of his is as profane as ever?"
"His parrot. . .is dead. . .I think," gasped poor Anne, who couldn't have felt sure of her own name at that precise moment.
"Dead! Everything will be all right then," cried the rosy lady jubilantly. "I can manage James A. if that bird is out of the way."
With which cryptic utterance she went joyfully on her way and Anne flew to the kitchen door to meet Marilla.
"Anne, who was that woman?"
"Marilla," said Anne solemnly, but with dancing eyes, "do I look as if I were crazy?"
"Not more so than usual," said Marilla, with no thought of being sarcastic.

Avtandil paintings

Avtandil paintings
Andy Warhol Neuschwanstein
alone she never found it lonely; her imagination peopled her path with merry companions, and with these she carried on a gay, pretended conversation that was wittier and more fascinating than conversations are apt to be in real life, where people sometimes fail most lamentably to talk up to the requirements. In a "make believe" assembly of choice spirits everybody says just the thing you want her to say and so gives you the chance to say just what you want to say. Attended by this invisible company, Anne traversed the woods and arrived at the fir lane just as broad, feathery flakes began to flutter down softly.
At the first bend she came upon Miss Lavendar, standing under a big, broad-branching fir. She wore a gown of warm, rich red, and her head and shoulders were wrapped in a silvery gray silk shawl.
"You look like the queen of the fir wood fairies," called Anne merrily.
"I thought you would come tonight, Anne," said Miss Lavendar, running forward. "And I'm doubly glad, for Charlotta the Fourth is away. Her mother is sick and she had to go home for the night

contemporary abstract painting

contemporary abstract painting
Anne, walking home from the post office one Friday evening, was joined by Mrs. Lynde, who was as usual cumbered with all the cares of church and state.
"I've just been down to Timothy Cotton's to see if I could get Alice Louise to help me for a few days," she said. "I had her last week, for, though she's too slow to stop quick, she's better than nobody. But she's sick and can't come. Timothy's sitting there, too, coughing and complaining. He's been dying for ten years and he'll go on dying for ten years more. That kind can't even die and have done with it. . .they can't stick to anything, even to being sick, long enough to finish it. They're a terrible shiftless family and what is to become of them I don't know, but perhaps Providence does."
Mrs. Lynde sighed as if she rather

Jacques-Louis David Male Nude known as Patroclus painting

Thomas Cole The Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) painting
Jacques-Louis David Male Nude known as Patroclus painting
scare. It was, too."
In spite of fear and a little remorse Davy grinned over the recollection.
"But you told a falsehood about it, Davy," said Anne, more sorrowfully than ever.
Davy looked puzzled.
"What's a falsehood? Do you mean a whopper?"
"I mean a story that was not true."
"Course I did," said Davy frankly. "If I hadn't you wouldn't have been scared. I had to tell it."
Anne was feeling the reaction from her fright and exertions. Davy's impenitent attitude gave the finishing touch. Two big tears brimmed up in her eyes.
"Oh, Davy, how could you?" she said, with a quiver in her voice. "Don't you know how wrong it was?"
Davy was aghast. Anne crying. . .he had made Anne cry! A flood of real remorse rolled like a wave over his warm little heart and engulfed it. He rushed to Anne, hurled himself into her lap, flung his arms around her neck,

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting
Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners painting
know I have red hair too. . .although it's much darker than it used to be. . .so there's no need of telling me that either."
"Well, well, I'll try and not mention it again since you're so sensitive. You must excuse me, Anne. I've got a habit of being outspoken and folks mustn't mind it."
"But they can't help minding it. And I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles into people and saying, `Excuse me, you mustn't mind it. . .it's just a habit I've got.' You'd think he was crazy, wouldn't you? And as for Mrs. Lynde being a busybody, perhaps she is. But did you tell her she had a very kind heart and always helped the poor, and never said a word when Timothy Cotton stole a crock of butter out of her dairy and told his wife he'd bought it from her? Mrs. Cotton cast it up to her the next time they met that it tasted of turnips and Mrs. Lynde just said she was sorry it had turned out

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings

Edwin Lord Weeks paintings
Frida Kahlo paintings
Anne drove over to Carmody on a shopping expedition the next afternoon and took Diana Barry with her. Diana was, of course, a pledged member of the Improvement Society, and the two girls talked about little else all the way to Carmody and back.
"The very first thing we ought to do when we get started is to have that hall painted," said Diana, as they drove past the Avonlea hall, a rather shabby building set down in a wooded hollow, with spruce trees hooding it about on all sides. "It's a disgraceful looking place and we must attend to it even before we try to get Mr. Levi Boulder to pull his house down. Father says we'll never succeed in doing that. Levi Boulter is too mean to spend the time it would take."
"Perhaps he'll let the boys take it down if they promise to haul the boards and split them up for him for kindling wood," said Anne hopefully. "We must do our best and be content to go slowly at first. We can't expect to improve