FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 10 - IMPORTANT EXTRACTS – PART 01 & PART 02

 

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)“If Jim doesn’t kill me”. 

28)“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?”

29)“Please God, make him think I am still pretty”. 

30)“Don’t look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold". 

31)“You don’t know what a nice-what a beautiful, nice gift I’ve got for you.”

32)“You’ve cut off your hair?” 

33)“Cut it off and sold it, don’t you like me just as well, anyhow? I’m me without my  hair, ain’t I?” 

34)“You say your hair is gone?” 

35)“You needn’t look for it” 

36)“Shall I put the chops on, Jim?”

37)“Don’t make any mistake, Dell” 

38)“My hair grows so fast, Jim!” 

39)“Isnt it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it.” 

40)“ She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the  ravages made by generosity added to love.” 

41)A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer” 

42)“Do germs form from other germs, or do they just come of themselves?”

43)“If you can cure animals, you can cure my son”. 

44)“is because there are no parent germs in the soup, and they cannot reach it because  of the bend in the long tube”. 

45)“two opposing laws seem to me now in contest-the one, a law of blood and death,  opening out each day new methods of destruction, forces nations to be always ready  for the battle, the other a law of peace, work and health.” 

46)“The future will belong to those who shall have done the most for suffering  humanity".

47)“Till you learn to form your own opinions and express them, I do not care much  what you think of me”. 

48)“A wave of the seas she had never seen/came to her form far away/and carried her  to him.” 

49)“She flew crying as he was picked up hands and jaws”. 

50)She circled the sky in movements of grace over his disgraceful end.

51)“With her beak she kissed a few feathers picked the ones that wind had not taken  away”. 

52)“Teach him that for every enemy there is a friend. It will take time, I know.”

53)“Only the test of fire makes fine steel.” 

54)“My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head a cupola of gold.”

55)“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall” 

56)“Love swells like the Solway but ebbs like its tide.” 

57)“Then spoke the bride’s father, his hand on his sword.” 

58)“So, faithful in love, and so dauntless in war.” 

59)“O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, or to dance at our bridal, young Lord  Lochinvar?” 

60)“The bride kiss’d the goblet: the knight took it up” 

61)“She is won! We are gone, over bank, bush and scaur; they’ll have fleet steeds that  follow”. 

62)“And into my garden stole/ when the night had veiled the pole”.

63)And I sunned it with smiles, and with soft deceitful wiles.” 

64)“And I water’d it in fears, night and morning with my tears” 

65)“I must shift before the lubbers gets to me and gives me the black spot!”

66)“I m poor, and I haven’t spoken with a Christian these three years!”

 

FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH – IMPORTANT EXTRACTS – PART 02

 

1. “Are you going all the way to Dehra?” 

2. “I didn’t know anyone else was here.” 

3. “I didn’t see you either” 

4. “But I heard you come in.” 

5. “Provided I keep to my seat, it shouldn’t be too difficult.” 

6. “I’m getting down at Saharanpur. My aunt is meeting me there.”

7. “Then I had better not be too familiar” 

8. “Aunts are usually formidable creatures” 

9. “To Dehra, and then to Mussorrie.” 

10. “Oh, how lucky you are! I wish I were going to Mussoorie. I love the hills especially  in October.” 

11. “Why don’t you look out of the window?” 

12. “Have you noticed, that the trees seem to be moving while we seem to be standing  still?” 

13. “You have an interesting face” 

14. “You are a very gallant young man” 

15. “Thank goodness it’s a short journey.” 

16. “You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, but the scent of the roses will  linger there still…” 

17. You must be disappointed, I’m sorry I’m not as attractive a travelling companion as  the one who just left” 

18. “She was an interesting girl, Can you tell me-did she keep her hair long or short?”

19. “It was her eyes I noticed, not her hair, she had beautiful eyes.”

20. “Once again, I had a game to play with a new fellow traveler.” 

21. “And how do you know that the human race is worth saving?” 

22. “I have read Anne Frank’s Diary”. 

23. “In spite of everything. I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

24. “Oh look, their eyes…. She whispered.” 

25. “I want to publish a book entitled The Annexe after the was…, my diary can serve  this purpose.” 

26. “She is so much like me that sometimes I do not know where myself begins and  Anne Frank ends.” 

27. “It must be a source of deep joy to you-in all your sorrow-to know that Anne’s brief  life is, in the deepest sense, only just the beginning.’ 

28. “They sat in their seats as if afraid of the lights outside, ashamed to face each other.”

29. “I was a good Nazi, but I never knew it meant until the other night.”

30. “ I feel like a song bird whose wings have been brutally torn out and who is flying in  utter darkness against the bars of its own cage.” 

31. “Where are your money and jewels?” 

32. “I didn’t want to catch the darned thing.”

33. “Shop till you drop”. 

34. “It is not a wise thing to hand over the task of ruling the world to businessmen as we  have just done today. 

35. “It’s this blasted cold. If I stop walking I shall freeze. I ‘m dying of hunger and cold.”

36. “For the love of St. Agatha and all the blessed saints, have pity on a poor miserable  who has had no food for three days.” 

37. “Go away. I’ve got nothing for you. My wife is away and I am busy. You’d better go to  the next street.” 

38. “Go away, beggar. My husband is out and I have nothing for you.”

39. “Kiss the lady’s hand? I think you’re making a slight mistake, brother. I’m not  lovesick, I’m Starving.” 

40. “Madam, I am sent by M. Gaultier to fetch the pie” 

41. “Good morning, lady. I have come from M. Pie, who sends me to fetch the Gaultier.”

42. “This must be a dream; and presently I shall wake.” 

43. “Nothing to eat? What are you talking about? There’s the eel pie, isn’t there?

44. “IF this is a joke, let me tell you that it’s in very bad taste.” 

45. “If life was always as easy as this!” 

46. “It was no fault of mine, sir. It was my friend.” 

47. “You are liar! The Mayor is out.” 

48. “I can’t very well be seen carrying an eel pie through the streets of Paris.”

49. “In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie.”

50. “This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,” 

51. “Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” 

52. “And troubled pleasure, nor without the voice, of mountain-echoes did my boat  move on.” 

53. “And as I rose upon the stroke, my boat went heaving through the water like a  swan.” 

54. “There hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion.” 

55. “She was an elfin pinnace.” 

56. “With trembling oars I turned. And through the silent stole my way , back to the  covert of the willow tree.” 

57. “I have come after them and made repair, where they have left not one stone on a  stone.” 

58. “Stay where you are until our backs are tuned!” 

59. “Good fences make good neighbours” 

60. “He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees.”

61. “Oh Master, unto thee I came to learn thy science.” 

62. “If I am Master, how thou hast, finished thy course, give me my due.”

63. “All that I have, O Master mine, All I shall conquer by my skill, gladly shall I to thee  resign.”

64. “For thy sake, loud I ask and clear, Give me, O youth, thy right-hand thumb.”

65. “Fame shall sound thy praise form sea to sea, and men shall ever link thy name with  self-help, truth and modesty.” 

66. “Rash promise ever ends in strife.” 

67. “My mother’s life made me a man, through all the months of human birth.”

68. “I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, but through the death of some of her.”

69. “down in the darkness of the grave, she cannot see the life she gave.”

70. “If the grave’s gates could be undone, she would not know her little son.”

71. “For all her love, she cannot tell whether I use it ill or well.” 

72. “Ho, guests! What are you? Merchants or wandering thieves?” 

73. “Take a bowl of wine from the hand of your guest; it may serve to digest the man’s  flesh that you have eaten.” 

74. “My name is Noman: my kindred and friends in my own country call me Noman.”

75. “ this is the kindness I will show thee, Noman: I will eat thee last of all thy friends.”

76. “If any ask thee who imposed on thee that unsightly blemish in thine eye, say it was  Ulysses.”