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complex, because they loved qualifying and explaining and illustrating their arguments with dozens of examples, as if they had forgotten nothing and everything they had ever known was available immediately for reference), the settlement was attacked.
Mary was the first to see the attackers coming, though she didn't know what they were.
It happened in midafternoon, when she was helping repair the roof of a hut. The mulefa only built one story high, because they were the sea. She shaded her eyes and saw one, two, more, a fleet of tall white sails, emerging out of the heat haze, some way off but making with a silent grace for the river mouth.
Mary called the zalif from below. What are you seeing?
She didn't know the word for sail, or boat, so she said tail, white, many.
At once the zalif gave a call of alarm, and everyone in earshot stopped work and sped to the not climbers; but Mary was happy to clamber above the ground, and she could lay thatch and knot it in place with her two hands, once they had shown her the technique, much more quickly than they could.So she was braced against the rafters of a house, catching the bundles of reeds thrown up to her, and enjoying the cool breeze from the water that was tempering the heat of the sun, when her eye was caught by a flash of white.It came from that distant glitter she thought was
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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Nice post about William Bouguereau!
-Janice
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