Jonathan circled slowly over the Far Cliffs, watching. This rough young Fletcher
Gull was very nearly a perfect flight-student. He was strong and light and quick in
the air, but far and away more important, he had a blazing drive to learn to fly.
Here
Read more…By the end of three months Jonathan had six other students, Outcasts all, yet curious
about this strange new idea of flight for the joy of flying.
Still, it was easier for them to practice high performance than it was to understand
the reason behind it
Fletcher Lynd Seagull was still quite young, but already he knew that no bird had
ever been so harshly treated by any Flock, or with so much injustice.
"I don't care what they say," he thought fiercely, and his vision blurred as he flew
out toward the F
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So this is heaven, he thought, and he had to smile at himself. It was hardly
respectful to analyze heaven in the very moment that one flies up to enter it.
As he came from Earth now, above the clouds and in close formation with the two
brillian
Abrupt [ə'brʌpt]
=>Adjective
1. Sudden and unexpected:
An abrupt change of plan
2. Seeming rude and unfriendly:
I’m sorry for being abrupt with you.
=> Abruptly [ə'brʌptlı] (Adverb)
The conversation ended abruptly.
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Read more…Fletcher['fletʃər]
=>Noun
A person who makes arrows
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Harsh [hɑ:rʃ]
=>Adjective (Harsher, Harshest)
1. Not kind; cruel:
2. Rough and unpleasant to see or hear:
A harsh voice
=>Harshly
Read more…Precision [prı'sıʒən]
=>Noun
1. The state or quality of being precise.
2. Accuracy; exactness:
To arrive at an estimate with precision
3. Mechanical or scientific exactness:
A lens ground with precision
4. Punctiliousness; strictness:
Precision in one's bus
Read more…When they could see again, Chiang was gone.
As the days went past, Jonathan found himself thinking time and again of the Earth
from which he had come. If he had known there just a tenth, just a hundredth, of
what he knew here, how much more life would
One evening the gulls that were not night-flying stood together on the sand,
thinking. Jonathan took all his courage in hand and walked to the Elder Gull, who,
it was said, was soon to be moving beyond this world.
"Chiang..." he said a little nervously
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Jonathan kept at it, fiercely, day after day, from before sunrise till past midnight.
And for all his effort he moved not a feather width from his spot.
"Forget about faith!" Chiang said it time and again. "You didn't need faith to fly,
you needed to
Enfeeble [en'fi:bəl]
=>Verb (Enfeebled, Enfeebling) (Used with object)
To make feeble; weaken:
That bout of pneumonia enfeebled him.
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Empower [ım'paʋər]
=>Verb (Used with object)
1.
Read more…Demonstrate ['demən,streıt]
=>Verb (Demonstrates, Demonstrating, Demonstrated)
1. To show some thing clearly:
He demonstrates how to operate the machine.
2. To walk or stand in public with a group of people to show that you have strong feelings about so
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Every time that I have consulted with you, I could get the best results by doing your ideas in my life. Really I think that this group has a great potential for showing the right ways, and it is only because of new, different, uni
Read more…Hi guys. Where is Anis our dear?! Her profile is not available at all. Is there any one knows something about her?! If you know, please do inform me about her. I am really worried. :(
Read more…Stun [stʌn]
=>Verb (Used with object)
1. To deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.:
The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
2. To astonish; astound; amaze:
Her wit stunned the audience.
3. To shock; overwhelm:
The wo
Read more…In the days that followed, Jonathan saw that there was as much to learn about flight
in this place as there had been in the life behind him. But with a difference. Here
were gulls who thought as he thought, For each of them, the most important thing in
Read more…As reading is a good way to improve our English, I started to read with you my friends. But the book that we are reading now, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard David Bach, is having so many new vocabularies for me. I don’t know whether I go on r
This discussion is for voting about the stories which have been put in this group until now and you liked them more than all.
It will be in 3 parts:
A-Novel
B- Short story
C- Funny story
Please choose the story that you like more in each part. In this
Read more…Scree [skri:]
=>Noun
A steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain
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Airborne ['eərbɔ:rn]
=>Adjective
1. Carried by the air, as pollen or dust.
2. In flight; aloft:
The plane was a
Read more…So this is heaven, he thought, and he had to smile at himself. It was hardly
respectful to analyze heaven in the very moment that one flies up to enter it.
As he came from Earth now, above the clouds and in close formation with the two
brilliant gulls,
