FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH – IMPORTANT EXTRACTS – PART 01

1) “God! We haven’t a moment to spare.”

2) “Let’s move on, time’s a flying.”
3) “Time is precious.”
4) “We have our hands full; we make use of every single minute.”
5) “You have no work in hand, have you?”
6) “Work! I’ve not a moment to spare for work”.
7) “I shall spare some work for you to do, if you like.”
8) “Girl of the silent torrent, all this time I have been waiting to take some work from your hands”.
9) “What kind of work would you like?”
10) “Will you give me one of your pitchers, one that you can spare?”
11) “A pitcher? You want to draw water from the torrent?”
12) “No, I shall draw pictures on you pitcher”
13) “Pictures, indeed! I have no time to waste on such as you. I’m going”
14) “Girl of the silent torrent, give me one of your clay pitchers. I shall draw pictures on it!”
15) “What do they mean, all those lines and colours? What is their purpose?”
16) “Nothing. A picture may have no meaning and serve no purpose”.
17) “Only some more work from your hands”.
18) “What kind of work would you like?”
19) “Let me make a coloured ribbon for your hair,”
20) “I brought a wrong man into this paradise,”. “It is all because of him”.
21) “This is no place for the like of you. You must leave”.
22) “Wait a moment! I shall come with you.”
23) “Mme. Sofronie. Hair Goods of all kinds”.
24) “Will you buy my hair?”
25) “I buy hair. Take yer hat off and let’s have a sight at the looks of it”.
26) “Give it to me quick”.
27) “She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by
generosity added to love.”
28) “If Jim doesn’t kill me”.
29) “Before he takes a second look at me, he’ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I
do-oh! What could I do with a dollar and eighty- seven cents?”
30) “Please God, make him think I am still pretty”.

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31) “Don’t look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold".
32) “It’ll grow pit again-you won’t mind”.
33) “You don’t know what a nice-what a beautiful, nice gift I’ve got for you.”
34) “You’ve cut off your hair?”
35) “Cut it off and sold it, don’t you like me just as well, anyhow? I’m me without my hair, ain’t I?”
36) “You say your hair is gone?”
37) “You needn’t look for it”
38) “Shall I put the chops on, Jim?”
39) “Don’t make any mistake, Dell”
40) “My hair grows so fast, Jim!”
41) “Isnt it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it.”
42) “You’ll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now”.
43) “let’s put our Christmas presents away and keep’ em awhile.
44) “And now suppose you put the chops on.”
45) A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer”
46) “Do germs form from other germs, or do they just come of themselves?”
47) “there are no parent germs in the soup”
48) “They cannot reach it because of the bend in the long tube.”
49) “If you can cure animals, you can cure my son”.
50) “Is because there are no parent germs in the soup, and they cannot reach it because of the bend in
the long tube”.
51) “two opposing laws seem to me now in contest-the one, a law of blood and death”
52) “that science in obeying the law of humanity will always labour to enlarge the frontiers of life.”
53) “The future will belong to those who shall have done the most for suffering humanity".
54) “What have I done for my education?”
55) “What have I done for my country?”
56) “Till you learn to form your own opinions and express them, I do not care much what you think of
me”.
57) “It was all right that he was termed “great”, but moral he cannot be called”.
58) “love born out of the profit motive is no love”.
59) “A wave of the seas she had never seen/came to her form far away/and carried her to him.”
60) “She flew crying as he was picked up hands and jaws”.
61) “She circled the sky in movements of grace over his disgraceful end”.

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62) “With her beak she kissed a few feathers picked the ones that wind had not taken away”.
63) “Teach him that for every enemy there is a friend. It will take time, I know.”
64) “Only the test of fire makes fine steel.”
65) “My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head a cupola of gold.”
66) “Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall”
67) “Love swells like the Solway but ebbs like its tide.”
68) “Then spoke the bride’s father, his hand on his sword.”
69) “So, faithful in love, and so dauntless in war.”
70) “O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?”
71) “The bride kiss’d the goblet: the knight took it up”
72) “Now tread we a measure!
73) “She is won! We are gone, over bank, bush and scaur; they’ll have fleet steeds that follow”.
74) “And into my garden stole/ when the night had veiled the pole”.
75) “And I sunned it with smiles, and with soft deceitful wiles.”
76) “And I water’d it in fears, night and morning with my tears”

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