Full Online Books: September 2013

Monday, September 30, 2013

The Peril Finders - Chapter 20. Dangerous Neighbours

CHAPTER TWENTY. DANGEROUS NEIGHBOURSChris's heart beat fast, and as he glanced at Ned he could see that there was a peculiar look in his eyes and strain...

Long Stories

George Manville Fenn

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Boswell As Biographer

Boswell's position in English literature cannot be disputed, nor can he ever be displaced from it. He has written our greatest biography. That is all....

Essays

Augustine Birrell

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At Last

When on my day of life the night is falling,And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown,I hear far voices out of darkness callingMy feet to paths unknown,Thou...

Poems

John Greenleaf Whittier

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The Penalty

I "Now then, you fellows, step out there! Step out like the men you are! Left--right! Left--right! That's the way! Holy Jupiter! Call those chaps savages!...

Short Stories

Ethel May Dell

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The Book Of Proverbs [bible, Old Testament] - Proverbs 13:1 To Proverbs 13:25 (Bible)

Chapter 13(Book of Proverbs | Holy Bible | Old Testament | King James Version)(For all books in the Bible, go to Bible Main Page)Proverbs 13:1 A wise son...

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Rita - Chapter 12. For Life

CHAPTER XII. FOR LIFE"If we can put the fire between us and them," said Captain Jack, "we shall get off." For a moment it seemed as if they might do it....

Long Stories

Laura E. Richards

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Ninia

I. Away out upon the wide Northern Pacific there is a group of three little islands. They are so very, very small that you need not seek to discover them...

Short Stories

Louis Becke

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Faust - Part 1 - EVENING. A SMALL AND NEAT ROOM.

EVENING. A SMALL AND NEAT ROOM MARGARET(braiding and binding up her hair)I would give something now to know,Who yonder gentleman could be!He had a...

Plays

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The King's Men; A Tale Of To-morrow - Chapter 13. An Unfinished Task

CHAPTER XIII. AN UNFINISHED TASKImmediately after the sentence was pronounced the prisoners were led back to the Tower. They were chained together by twos,...

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Robert Grant

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The Lesson Of The Master - Chapter 6

CHAPTER VI"It goes on too much abroad--hang abroad!" These or something like them had been the Master's remarkable words in relation to the action of "Ginistrella";...

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Henry James

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Orley Farm - Volume 2 - Chapter 41. How Can I Save Him?

VOLUME II CHAPTER XLI. HOW CAN I SAVE HIM?"I will not consent to live with you while such deeds as these are being done." Such were the last words which...

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Anthony Trollope

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The Brass Bottle - Chapter 10. No Place Like Home!

CHAPTER X. NO PLACE LIKE HOME!"May thy head long survive!" said Fakrash, by way of salutation, as he stepped through the archway. "You're very good," said...

Long Stories

F. Anstey

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Cookies - Butter Crunch Lemon-cheese Bars

Crust: 1/3 cup butter, softened 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon mace or nutmeg 1 cup all-purpose flour cooking spray Filling:...

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Unknown

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In The Track Of The Troops - Chapter 8. Treats Of Torpedoes, Terrible Catastrophe...

CHAPTER EIGHT. TREATS OF TORPEDOES, TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE, UNEXPECTED MEETINGS, AND SUCH LIKETo return to my personal experiences. It now became a matter...

Long Stories

R. M. Ballantyne

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If Thou Wouldst Know The Beautiful

If thou wouldst know the Beautiful that breathes Consanguined with young Earth, go seek!--but seek No sighing Shadows with dead hemlock-wreaths,...

Poems

Madison Julius Cawein

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The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Book 1 - Chapter 2

Book I. Chapter II.A short description of squire Allworthy, and a fuller account of Miss Bridget Allworthy, his sister.In that part of the western division...

Long Stories

Henry Fielding

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Old Instruments Of Music

Mr Galpin has written an admirable book on old musical instruments. His knowledge, which is first hand, is the harvest of many years’ research;...

Essays

Francis Darwin

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Zoroaster - Chapter 13

CHAPTER XIIIFar in the wild mountains of the south a primeval race of shepherds pastures its flocks of shaggy goats upon the scanty vegetation of rocky...

Long Stories

F. Marion Crawford

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Senator North - Part 1 - Chapter 18

PART I CHAPTER XVIIIBetty had invited Senator Burleigh to dinner on Saturday, that he might feel free to call elsewhere on Sunday. At four o'clock, when...

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Gertrude Atherton

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Grandfather's Chair - PART 1 - Chapter 10. THE SUNKEN TREASURE

PART I. CHAPTER X."AND what became of the chair?" inquired Clara, "The outward aspect of our chair," replied Grandfather, "was now somewhat the worse for...

Nonfictions

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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True To Himself - Chapter 1. The Trouble In The Orchard

CHAPTER I. THE TROUBLE IN THE ORCHARD"Hi, there, Duncan Woodward!" I called out. "What are you doing in Widow Canby's orchard?" "None of your business,...

Long Stories

Edward Stratemeyer

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Coriolanus - ACT V - SCENE II

ACT V. SCENE II.The Volscian camp before Rome.(Enter MENENIUS to the WATCH on guard.) FIRST WATCH. Stay. Whence are you? SECOND WATCH. Stand, and...

Plays

William Shakespeare

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The House Where We Were Wed

I've been to the old farm-house, good-wife,Where you and I were wed;Where the love was born to our two heartsThat now lies cold and dead.Where a long-kept...

Poems

Will Carleton

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The Moving Picture Girls At Oak Farm: Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays - Chapter 7. The Play Of The Hose

CHAPTER VII. THE PLAY OF THE HOSE"Russ! Daddy! Somebody save Alice!" cried Ruth, from her place near the young moving picture operator. "Can't someone...

Long Stories

Laura Lee Hope

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Sunday, September 29, 2013

This First Year Of Marriage Has Been The Best

This first year of marriage has been the bestI've ever known, so deep and rich and full.I've felt more passion than in all the rest:More tenderness than...

Poems

Nicholas Gordon

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The House By The Church-yard - Chapter 91. Concerning Certain Documents...

CHAPTER XCI. CONCERNING CERTAIN DOCUMENTS WHICH REACHED MR. MERVYN, AND THE WITCHES' REVELS AT THE MILLSI would be ashamed to say how, soon after Dangerfield...

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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Youth - Chapter 33. Our Neighbours

Chapter XXXIII. OUR NEIGHBOURSON the first day after our arrival, I had been greatly astonished that Papa should speak of our neighbours, the Epifanovs,...

Long Stories

Leo Tolstoy

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Bread - Bread Unleavened Communion Bread

Note: Make 12 hours ahead of serving. 1/2 pound butter, softened 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 2 cups whipping cream 4 cups flour Mix butter, salt and...

Learning Kitchen

Unknown

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Unspoken Sermons - Series 1 - The Consuming Fire

SERIES I THE CONSUMING FIREOur God is a consuming fire.--HEBREWS xii. 29 Nothing is inexorable but love. Love which will yield to prayer is imperfect and...

Nonfictions

George Macdonald

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Appetizers - Pork Bacon Oyster Bits

8 slices bacon 1/2 cup herbed seasoned dressing 1 (5oz.) can oysters, chopped 1/4 cup water Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut bacon slices in half and cook...

Learning Kitchen

Unknown

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The Rustler Of Wind River - Chapter 17. Boots And Saddles

CHAPTER XVII. BOOTS AND SADDLESWhen Major King delivered Frances--his punctilious military observance made her home-coming nothing less--to Colonel Landcraft,...

Long Stories

George W. Ogden

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An Every-day Experience

He came across to me in the semi-silence room of the club. "I had a rather queer hand at bridge last night," he said. "Had you?" I answered, and picked...

Short Stories

Stephen Leacock

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Five Children And It - Chapter 9. Grown Up

Cyril had once pointed out that ordinary life is full of occasions on which a wish would be most useful. And this thought filled his mind when he happened...

Long Stories

Edith Nesbit

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A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court - THE TALE OF THE LOST LAND - Chapter XXXVII - AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT

Sleep? It was impossible. It would naturally have been impossiblein that noisome cavern of a jail, with its mangy crowd of drunken,quarrelsome, and song-singing...

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Mark Twain

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Cold And Quiet

Cold, my dear,--cold and quiet. In their cups on yonder lea,Cowslips fold the brown bee's diet; So the moss enfoldeth thee."Plant me, plant me, O love,...

Poems

Jean Ingelow

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Cast Upon The Breakers - Chapter 22. An Old Acquaintance Turns Up

CHAPTER XXII. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE TURNS UPIn his new position Rodney could easily hear the conversation which took place between the Western man and his...

Long Stories

Horatio Alger

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The Cloister And The Hearth - Chapter 14

CHAPTER XIVAs if this had been a concerted signal, the back door was struck as rudely the next instant. They were hemmed in. But at these alarming sounds...

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Charles Reade

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Sonnet To Thomas Clarkson

On the final passing of the Billfor the Abolition of the Slave Trade, March, 1807. Clarkson! it was an obstinate Hill to climb; How toilsome, nay how...

Poems

William Wordsworth

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Finished - Chapter 16. War

CHAPTER XVI. WARNow men began to whisper together and Goza groaned at my side."Rather would I look down a live lion's throat than see the dead," he murmured....

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H. Rider Haggard

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Mon Choual "castor"

I'm poor man, me, but I buy las' May Wan horse on de Comp'nie Passengaire,An' auction feller w'at sole heem say She's out of de full-breed "Messengaire."Good...

Poems

William Henry Drummond

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Fruit - Cranberry - Cranberries Amaretto

2 oz. butter 1 lb. cranberries 2 c. sugar 1 lemon, grated peel and juice 2 tbsp. orange marmalade 1/3 c. Amaretto liqueur Spray saucepan with nonstick...

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Unknown

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Farina - The Silver Arrow

At the threshold of Gottlieb's house a number of the chief burgesses of Cologne had corporated spontaneously to condole with him. As he came near, they...

Long Stories

George Meredith

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Otherwise Phyllis - Chapter 14. Turkey Run

CHAPTER XIV. TURKEY RUNA week before Christmas Mrs. William Holton gave a sleigh-ride and skating-party for a niece from Memphis, and Phil was invited....

Long Stories

Meredith Nicholson

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The Grand Babylon Hotel - Chapter 8 - ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF THE BARONESS

ON the following morning, just before lunch, a lady, accompaniedby a maid and a considerable quantity of luggage, came to theGrand Babylon Hotel. She was...

Long Stories

Arnold Bennett

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Cloudy Jewel - Chapter 24

CHAPTER XXIV"Guardy Lud" was the first visitor, just for a night and a day. He had come East for a flying business trip, and could not pass by his beloved...

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Grace Livingston Hill

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Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-seeker

It was a beautiful day in balmy May and the sun shone pleasantly on Mr. Cornelius Johnson's very spruce Prince Albert suit of grey as he alighted from...

Short Stories

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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The Weed's Counsel

Said a traveller by the way Pausing, "What hast thou to say, Flower by the dusty road, That would ease a mortal's load?" Traveller, hearken unto me!...

Poems

Bliss Carman

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Kenelm Chillingly - Book 7 - Chapter 2

BOOK VII CHAPTER IIKENELM despatched a note to Will Somers early the next morning, inviting himself and Mr. Bowles to supper that evening. His tact was...

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Edward Bulwer-lytton

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