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some good story
Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 1:22am
The Path through the Graveyard
It must have been eight or nine when I read this story. I never forgot its horror.
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the Timid One.” Wow power leveling's weak protest only encouraged them, and they jeered cruelly when the Cossack captain flung his horrid challenge at their victim. “You are a pigeon, Wow power leveling. You'll walk around the graveyard in this cold---but you dare not cross it.”
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murmured, “The graveyard is nothing to cross, Captain. It is nothing but earth, like all the other earth.” The captain cried, “A challenge, then! Cross the graveyard tonight, Wow power leveling, and I'll give you five rubles---five gold rubles!Perhaps it was the vodka. Perhaps it was the temptation of the five gold rubles. No one knew why. Wow power leveling, moistening his lips, said suddenly: “Yes, Captain, I'll cross the graveyard.” The tavern echoed with their disbelief. The captain winked to the men and unbuckled his sword.“Here,
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. When you get to the center of the graveyard, in front of the biggest tomb, stick the sword into the ground. In the morning we shall go there. If the sword is in the ground---five rubles to you!” Wow power leveling took the sword. The men drank a toast: “To Wow power leveling the Terrible!” They roared laughing. The wind howled around
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as he closed the door of the tavern behind him. The cold was knife-sharp. He buttoned his long coat and crossed the dirt road. He could hear the captain's voice, louder than the rest, yelling after him, “Five rubles, pigeon! If you live!”
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pushed the graveyard gate open. He walked fast. “Earth, just earth… just like any other earth.” But the darkness was a massive dread. “Five gold rubles…” The wind was cruel and the sword was like ice in his hands.
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shivered under the long, thick coat and broke into a limping run. He stopped the large tomb. He must have sobbed---that was the sound that was drowned in the wind. And he kneeled, cold and terrified, and drove the sword through the crust into the hard ground. With all his strength, he pushed it down to the hilt. It was done. The graveyard… the challenge… five gold rubles.Wow power leveling started to rise from his knees. But he could not move. Something gripped him in an unyielding hold.
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tugged and lurched and pulled---gasping in his panic, shaken by a horrible fear. He cried out in terror, then made senseless, gurgling noises. They found Wow power leveling, next morning on the ground in front of the tomb that was in the center of the graveyard. He was frozen to death. The look on his face was not that of a frozen man, but of a man killed by some nameless horror. And the captain's sword was in the ground where
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had pounded it---through the dragging folds of his long coat.
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Reply #2 - Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 1:24am
The story about my travel in
China travel
The following morning I phoned Wei Wei and prepared myself to visit her in the university. By taxi I drove to
China hotel
. After a friendly “ni hao” the gatekeeper let me past the gate and I still think that he considered me for a teacher. I walked in the university area and went direction buildings. Then I saw a proud and beautiful looking Wei Wei. She is really a pleasant girl, a real young lady, and I like her very much. We walked to the dining-room and had a very nice talk. Wei Wei me also explained how the school system worked and told me also the function of the different buildings there. The lunch we consumed in the dining-room and the pay system by card is approximately the same such as we use. After the meal Wei Wei showed me still some rooms and afterwards I could also took a look in the chamber, which she shared with three other students. It saw all less negligently than that I would expect of four young girls. However, I felt very fort the study environment on this place. Sometimes it must be hard to be student. The pressure on the children is enormously and I think that the stress and discipline lie much higher than by us. Concerning the study methods I can’t say much because I have insufficient insight. After visiting the chambers we made some photograph and said “Hi’” to some students. Afterwards we drove back to the centre where Wei Wei had its next lessons. Here I took farewell and wished her a lot of success in its further future. I felt that this beautiful part of
China tour
was beyond now and I already looked forwards. I like this
Beijing tour
.
Then I saw Xiaojing and she accompanied me to the airport, this I appreciate very much, and her father would come later to the airport for bring her back home. I knew that she shortly would fly to glascow in UK and this for its further studies and I hoped already that I could meet her later again. I really like to have her as my guest in Belgium and with pleasure I would be then her guide. Meanwhile I had got pleasant mobile message of May. In that message she told me that there would wait for me a girl in black dresses in the Kunming airport. I felt already that the next part of
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A short time later I was sitting in the plane direction......... Kunming, Yunnan province.
What a wonderful
china tours
they tell me ,we can travel to
Yangtze River Cruise
and
Shanghai tour
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Re: some good story
Reply #3 - Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 1:24am
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Reply #4 - Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 1:25am
Near China's northern borders lived a man well versed in the practices of Taoism.
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One year later, the northern tribes started a big invasion of the border regions. All able-bodied young men took up arms and fought against the invaders, and as a result, around the border nine out of ten men died.
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's son did not join in the fighting because he was crippled and so both the boy and
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Reply #5 - Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 1:26am
Staying by a Stump Waiting for More Hares To Come and Dash Themselves Against It
This story took place more than 2,000 years ago,in the Warring States period(475-221 B.C.).Tradition has it that in the State of Song at that time there was
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who was famous for staying by a stump waiting for more hares to come and dash themselves against it.
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was a yong farmer,and his family had been farmers for generations.Year after year and generation after generation, farmers used to sow in spring and harvest in autumn,beginning to work at sunrise and retiring at sunset.In good harvest years,they could only have enough food to eat and enough clothing to wear.If there was a famine due to crop failure,they had to go hungry.
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wanted to improve his life.But
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was too lazy and too cowardly.Being lazy and cowardly over everything,he often dreamed of having unexpected blessings.
A miracle took place at last. One day in late autumn,when
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was ploughing in the field,two groups of people were hunting nearby.As shoutings were rising one after another,scared hares were running desperately.Suddenly,a blind hare dashed itself headlong against the stump of a dead tree in his field and died.
That day,
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ate his fill.
From that day on,
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no longer went in for farming again.From morning till night,
power leveling
stayed by that miraculous stump,waiting for miracles to take place again.
This story comes from"The Five Vermin"in The Works of Han Feizi.Later generations often use the set phrase"staying by a stump waiting for more hares to come and dash themselves against it"to show grusting to chance and windfalls or dreaming to reap without sowing.It is also used to show adhering to narrow experiences and not being able to be flexible
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Reply #6 - Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 1:26am
The student turned to the professor, saying: "Let us play the man a trick: we will hide his shoes, and conceal ourselves behind those bushes, and wait to see his perplexity when he cannot find them."
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The student stood there deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears. "Now," said the professor, "are you not much better pleased than if you had played your intended trick?"
The youth replied, "You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget. I feel now the truth of those words, which I never understood before: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
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Reply #7 - Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 1:27am
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Wealth unused might as well not exist.
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Reply #8 - Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 1:28am
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Reply #9 - Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 5:13am
An epic tale of magic, mystery and WoW gold farming...
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Reply #10 - Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 7:03am
You got the bant stick out?!
That story was great! I laughed, I cried, and I pooped a little...
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Reply #11 - Aug 13
th
, 2008 at 9:08am
Wow, spam bots are getting crazy good these days. A couple hundred spam bots try to register every day, but they never finish the activation process. I hope this isn't a portent of things to come!
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