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It was as though the sky had become a dark-tinted mirror for the waters of the tide country, with their myriad cross-cutting currents, eddies and whirlpools...

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... eye's arrival

...the storm had given them what life could not, it had fused them together and made them one.

...words are like the winds that blow ripples on the water's surface. The river itself flows beneath, unseen and unheard.

It was sitting on its haunches with its head up, watching him with its tawny flickering eyes.... At first his terror was such that he could not move a muscle.

"life is lived in transformation."

did there exist any more remarkableinstance of symbiosis between human beings and a population of wild animals?

... want and deprivation made people pull together all the more tightly.

..."while our Bangla word joins Arabic to Sanskrit - .... it is as though the word itself were an island, born of the meeting of two great rivers of language-...

Meanwhile, the sun had begun to set, and a comet of color had come shooting over the horizon and plunged, flaming... > the above is not very different from the sight in front of me as I trad tis description