Rock
Rock can be any of the following:
- In geology, a rock is a substance composed of minerals and classified according to mineral composition.
- In music, rock is sometimes used as a short form of rock and roll, but also refers to a harder form of music derived from rock and roll.
- The Rock is a 1995 action movie.
- Rock is a confectionery made and sold in many of the UK's seaside holiday resorts. As the character Ida says in Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock[?], "It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton."
- Rock can also be used in sculpting.
At that rate it seemed likely that her days would be
and not to allow herself to be disheartened by a few brilliant
paint-box, her brushes, and her block, and I was left free to smoke my
Marco.
I was sitting there one morning, watching, with half-closed eyes, the
fresh salt breeze that came across the ruffled water from the
officers by whom Venice was thronged in those days, and whom I
known slightly in Vienna the previous winter. I returned his greeting
foreigners when I am abroad, and little did I foresee into what
me.
I asked him how he liked Venice, and he answered laughingly that he
always in disgrace, only this time it is rather worse than usual. Do
when you were there. He is a soldier of the old school, and manages
years, boasting that he never allowed a breach of discipline to pass
colonel got orders to stop my leave; this year I borrowed from the
cavalry, and put into a Croat regiment under orders for Venice. Next
on, I suppose, till some fine morning I shall find myself driving a
horn to let the villagers know that the imperial and royal mail is
that same evening, on the Piazza San Marco, whither I had wandered to
with a number of his brother officers in front of the principal cafe.
complaining of their present quarters. Venice, they said, might be all
the dullest of places. There were no amusements, there was no sport,
periodical fits of sulks, and would not speak to, or look at, a German
when our band is playing," said one of the officers, pointing.
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