Full Online Books: May 2013

Friday, May 31, 2013

North And South - Chapter XXII - A BLOW AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER XXII - A BLOW AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 'But work grew scarce, while bread grew dear,And wages lessened, too;For Irish hordes were bidders here,Our...

Long Stories

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Treasured Memories

The playful way thy wanton hair Was tossing in the wind; Thy girlish, vain vexation Is treasured in my mind. Held in my heart each sacred spot,...

Poems

W. M. Mackeracher

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The Great Taboo - Chapter 19. Domestic Bliss

CHAPTER XIX. DOMESTIC BLISSTu-Kila-Kila went home that day in a very bad humor. The portent of the bitten finger had seriously disturbed him. For, strange...

Long Stories

Grant Allen

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The Cursed Patois

As his boat shot to the camp dock of beach stones, the camper thought he heard a child's voice behind the screen of brush. He leaped out and drew the boat...

Short Stories

Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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The Abandoned God

In the cold darkness of eternity he sits, this god who has grown old.His rounded eyes are open on the whir of time, but man who made him has forgotten...

Poems

Eunice Tietjens

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The Extra Day - Chapter 17. A Day Has Come - Part 1

CHAPTER XVII. A DAY HAS COME - PART 1MARIA'S PARTICULAR ADVENTURE The day was hardly born, and still unsure of itself, when a robin with its tail cocked...

Long Stories

Algernon Blackwood

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Hilda Lessways - Book 1. Her Start In Life - Chapter 4. Domesticity Invaded

BOOK I. HER START IN LIFECHAPTER IV. DOMESTICITY INVADEDIEarly in the afternoon, two days later, Hilda came, with an air of reproach, into her mother's...

Long Stories

Arnold Bennett

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Middlemarch - Book 1. Miss Brooke - Chapter 6

BOOK I. MISS BROOKE CHAPTER VIMy lady's tongue is like the meadow blades, That cut you stroking them with idle hand. Nice cutting is her function:...

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George Eliot

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The Guns Of Shiloh - Foreword

"The Guns of Shiloh," a complete story in itself, is the complement of "The Guns of Bull Run." In "The Guns of Bull Run" the Civil War and its beginnings...

Long Stories

Joseph A. Altsheler

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Sunrise In The Country

What a sweet atmosphere of melody And coolness falls upon the troubled heart, Like oil upon the wave. Dance on--dance on-- Ye couriers of the sun--full-throated...

Poems

J. C. Manning

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The Broken Shoelace

IIn the aching, baking middle of a sizzling New York's summer, there befell New York's regular "crime wave." When the city is a brazen skillet on mankind,...

Short Stories

Richard Harding Davis

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The Treasure - Chapter 2. On The Quays

CHAPTER II. ON THE QUAYSThe poor maid who had escaped the butchery had been taken by Torarin to Marstrand. He had conceived so great pity for her that...

Long Stories

Selma Lagerlof

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Desserts - Berry Crisp

6 c. berries (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries) 1 tbsp. instant tapioca 1 1/2 c. plus 2 tbsp. sugar 1 1/2 c. flour 1 stick butter, cut into 1/2 inch...

Learning Kitchen

Unknown

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Us For Sam

While all Europe is a shambles And the whole world is at war,And half the land the sun shines on Is drenched in human gore;When every Nation counts the...

Poems

Unknown

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In The Closed Room

PART ONEIn the fierce airless heat of the small square room the child Judith panted as she lay on her bed. Her father and mother slept near her, drowned...

Short Stories

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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To Be Held For Reference

By the hoof of the Wild Goat up-tossedFrom the Cliff where She lay in the Sun, Fell the StoneTo the Tarn where the daylight is lost;So She fell from...

Short Stories

Rudyard Kipling

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The Book Of Jeremiah [bible, Old Testament] - Jeremiah 35:1 To Jeremiah 35:19 (Bible)

Chapter 35(Book of Jeremiah | Holy Bible | Old Testament | King James Version)(For all books in the Bible, go to Bible Main Page)Jeremiah 35:1 The word...

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Jackal And Child

In the great Province of Bengal, The scavenger is the Jackal, For it doth love each night to feast, On the carrion of some beast. The stench...

Poems

James Mcintyre

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A Happy Night (surbiton And Battersea)

A SUBURBAN NIGHT Oh, sweetly sad and sadly sweet, That rain-pearled night at Highbury! The picture-theatre, off the street, That...

Essays

Thomas Burke

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The Last Of The Mohicans - Chapter 18

CHAPTER 18"Why, anything; An honorable murderer, if you will; Fornaught I did in hate, but all in honor."--OthelloThe bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally...

Long Stories

James Fenimore Cooper

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L'assommoir - Chapter 8. An Old Acquaintance

CHAPTER VIII. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCEThe following Saturday Coupeau, who had not been home to dinner, came in with Lantier about ten o'clock. They had been...

Long Stories

Emile Zola

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The First And Last

"So the last shall be first, and the first last."--HOLY WRIT.It was a dark room at that hour of six in the evening, when just the single oil reading-lamp...

Short Stories

John Galsworthy

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The Beaver Medicine

This story goes back many years, to a time before the Indians went to war against each other. Then there was peace among all the tribes. They met, and...

Short Stories

George Bird Grinnell

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The Romance Of A Mummy And Egypt - Chapter 14

CHAPTER XIVWhen Ra'hel awoke, she was amazed not to find Tahoser by her side, and cast her glance around the room, thinking the Egyptian had already risen....

Long Stories

Theophile Gautier

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Health Through Will Power - Chapter 13. Coughs And Colds

CHAPTER XIII. COUGHS AND COLDS"The power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills." Othello.It might seem as though the will had nothing to...

Nonfictions

James J. Walsh

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The Book Of Esther [bible, Old Testament] - Esther 9:1 To Esther 9:32

Chapter 9(Book of Esther | Holy Bible | Old Testament | King James Version)(For all books in the Bible, go to Bible Main Page)Esther 9:1 Now in the twelfth...

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Fruit - Poached Peaches Filled With Whipped Mascarpone Gingersnap Cookies

Prep time: 25 minutes Cooling time: 30 minutes Chill time: overnight 4 fresh ripe (or 8 canned halves) peaches or nectarines 1-1/2 cups (about 12 ounces)...

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Unknown

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Mexican And Hispanic - Salsa Fresca

Salsa Fresca 4 plum tomatoes, diced 1/2 Cup thawed corn kernels 2 Tbl. chopped fresh coriander (cilantro) 1 Tbl. minced jalapeno pepper 1 Green onion,...

Learning Kitchen

Unknown

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Sleeping Fires: A Novel - Chapter 5

CHAPTER VSociety went to the country to escape the screaming winds and dust clouds of summer. A few had built country houses, the rest found abundant amusement...

Long Stories

Gertrude Atherton

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The King's Esquires: The Jewel Of France - Chapter 41. A Visitor For A Patient

CHAPTER FORTY ONE. A VISITOR FOR A PATIENTThe time up to the closing of the chamber door had been one of wild excitement. There was the disguise, and...

Long Stories

George Manville Fenn

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Casseroles - Seafood - Tuna Casserole Recipes By Becky

1 large can tuna 1 can undiluted mushroom soup 1/2 c. diced celery 1 small diced onion 1/4 bell pepper, diced 1/4 c. grated yellow cheese pepper to taste...

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Unknown

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War And Peace - Book Fourteen: 1812 - Chapter 10

Having returned to the watchman's hut, Petya found Denisov in thepassage. He was awaiting Petya's return in a state of agitation,anxiety, and self-reproach...

Long Stories

Leo Tolstoy

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The Chart

Then came in further years the virgin sight Of the live sea; the sea that marches down, With sunny phalanxes and flags of foam,...

Poems

Gilbert Parker

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Uncle Tom's Cabin - Volume II - Chapter XXXVIII - The Victory

"Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory."(1)(1) I Cor. 15:57.Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, insome hours, how far easier...

Long Stories

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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After A Shadow

"ARTY! Arty!" called Mrs. Mayflower, from the window, one bright June morning. "Arty, darling! What is the child after? Just look at him, Mr. Mayflower!"I...

Short Stories

T. S. Arthur

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Marcus: The Young Centurion - Chapter 26. In The Track Of An Army

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX. IN THE TRACK OF AN ARMYIt was not easy to quiet down the half wild steeds. They had been going through a long period of inaction since...

Long Stories

George Manville Fenn

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Dips - Dip For The Hips

1 roll of Jimmy Dean sausage, cooked, drained, and brought to room temperature 2 (8 oz.) pkgs. cream cheese, room temp 2 (4 oz.) cans of green chillis...

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Unknown

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Fitz The Filibuster - Chapter 53. Worse Than Ever

CHAPTER FIFTY THREE. WORSE THAN EVER"This is bad, my lads," said the skipper, joining the boys. "What's wrong, father?" said Poole. "Why, it's close upon...

Long Stories

George Manville Fenn

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I Won't Grow Up!

Halley was a tall, athletic, bold, girl. She thought she was so good at everyone just because she was older then everyone else in the grade. She boasted...

Stories For Kids

This Story By Kids

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The Heir Of Redclyffe - Chapter 32

Sure all things wear a heavenly dress, Which sanctifies their loveliness, Types of that endless resting day, When we shall be as changed as...

Long Stories

Charlotte M. Yonge

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Modeste Mignon - Chapter 4. A Simple Story

CHAPTER IV. A SIMPLE STORYSuch was the result to the celebrated house of Mignon at Havre of the crisis of 1825-26, which convulsed many of the principal...

Long Stories

Honore De Balzac

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The Minister's Charge; Or, The Apprenticeship Of Lemuel Barker - Chapter 9

CHAPTER IX"Come, turn out!" said a voice in his ear, and he started up, to see the great dormitory where he had fallen asleep empty of all but himself...

Long Stories

William Dean Howells

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A Journey To The Western Isles Of Scotland - Elgin

Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff, we set out in the morning, and having breakfasted at Cullen, about noon came to Elgin in the inn, that we supposed...

Nonfictions

Samuel Johnson

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Officer 666 - Chapter 40. Striking While The Iron Is Hot

CHAPTER XL. STRIKING WHILE THE IRON IS HOTAs Travers Gladwin skimmed up the stairs to warn Helen of the arrival of her aunt, he was thinking on four sides...

Long Stories

Barton W. Currie

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Brother Copas - Chapter 14. Brother Copas On The House Of Lords

CHAPTER XIV. BROTHER COPAS ON THE HOUSE OF LORDSAll love being a mystery, I see no reason to speculate how or why it came to pass that Corona, who already...

Long Stories

Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch

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The Seven Cream Jugs

"I suppose we shall never see Wilfred Pigeoncote here now that he has become heir to the baronetcy and to a lot of money," observed Mrs. Peter Pigeoncote...

Short Stories

Saki

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The Doctor: A Tale Of The Rockies - Chapter 20. Until Seventy Times Seven

CHAPTER XX. UNTIL SEVENTY TIMES SEVENThe Big Horn flowed by a tortuous and rapid course through rough country into the Goat. The trail was bad and, in...

Long Stories

Ralph Connor

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Silver And Gold: A Story Of Luck And Love In A Western Mining Camp - Chapter 8. The Silver Treasure

CHAPTER VIII. THE SILVER TREASUREAs evening came on and the red eye of the sun winked and closed behind a purple range of mountains Denver Russell came...

Long Stories

Dane Coolidge

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