Full Online Books: October 2013

Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Young Engineers In Colorado - Chapter 17. The Real Attack Begins

CHAPTER XVII. THE REAL ATTACK BEGINSHearing the moving wheels of a wagon on the trail, Tom looked outside, then seized Mr. Newnham's arm rather roughly....

Long Stories

H. Irving Hancock

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Penguin Island - BOOK II - THE ANCIENT TIMES - Chapter IX - THE DRAGON OF ALCA (Continuation)

Orberosia loved her husband, but she did not love him alone. At the hour when Venus lightens in the pale sky, whilst Kraken scattered terror through the...

Long Stories

Anatole France

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Cakesandfrostings - Cake Petite Fours By Kayce

1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup shortening (for a white cake, use a solid white shortening like Crisco) 1 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1/4 tsp. almond extract 2 cup...

Learning Kitchen

Unknown

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Tropic Rain

AS the single pang of the blow, when the metal is mingled well,Rings and lives and resounds in all the bounds of the bell,So the thunder above spoke with...

Poems

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Marrow Of Tradition - Chapter 28. In Season And Out

CHAPTER XXVIII. IN SEASON AND OUTWellington soon resumed its wonted calm, and in a few weeks the intended lynching was only a memory. The robbery and assault,...

Long Stories

Charles W. Chesnutt

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Captain Pott's Minister - Chapter 7

CHAPTER VII"Lan' sakes!" exclaimed Miss Pipkin, who, fully recovered, was busily engaged in the kitchen on the following morning when the minister entered....

Long Stories

Francis L. Cooper

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Wood Magic: A Fable - Chapter 13. The Courtship In The Orchard

CHAPTER XIII. THE COURTSHIP IN THE ORCHARDThe next morning Bevis's papa looking at the almanac found there was going to be an eclipse of the sun, so Bevis...

Long Stories

Richard Jefferies

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The Higher Abdication

Curly the tramp sidled toward the free-lunch counter. He caught a fleeting glance from the bartender's eye, and stood still, trying to look like a business...

Short Stories

O Henry

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A Weeping Cupid

Why love! I thought you were gay and fair, Merry of mien and debonair. What then means this brow so black, Whose sullen gloom twin eyes give back,...

Poems

Dora Sigerson Shorter

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Witness To The Deed - Chapter 55. The Last Cloud

CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE. THE LAST CLOUD"Jules, you are a bad--a naughty!" cried Margot angrily. "You and your wife never tell me of what takes place while...

Long Stories

George Manville Fenn

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Paralysis

For moveless limbs no pity I crave, That never were swift! Still all I prize, Laughter and thought and friends, I have; No fool to heave luxurious...

Poems

Rupert Brooke

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Warlock O' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance - Chapter 9. The Student

CHAPTER IX. THE STUDENTThe twilight had not yet reached the depth of its mysteriousness, when Cosmo, returning home from casting a large loop of wandering...

Long Stories

George Macdonald

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Pies - Chocolate - Chocolate Banana Pie

3/4 cup Rice Krispies® 1 tablespoon peanut butter 1 tablespoon honey 1 large banana -- sliced 1/4" thick 1 package fat free/sugar free instant chocolate...

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Helping Himself; Or Grant Thornton's Ambition - Chapter 8. Grant Takes A Decisive Step

CHAPTER VIII. GRANT TAKES A DECISIVE STEPGrant came home a messenger of good tidings, as his beaming face plainly showed. His mother could hardly believe...

Long Stories

Horatio Alger

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Children Of The Market Place - Chapter 11

CHAPTER XIThe autumn was coming on. The cholera had abated. The air was cool and fresh. The country was taking fire from the colors of the changing year....

Long Stories

Edgar Lee Masters

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Tom Swift And His War Tank - Chapter 17. Veiled Threats

Chapter XVII. Veiled ThreatsLike some prehistoric monster about to charge down upon another of its kind, Tank A, under the guidance of Tom Swift, reeled...

Long Stories

Victor Appleton

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A Pilgrim In The Far West

The Peak was superb that morning, big and strong, and glittering with snow. Little Mrs. Nancy Tarbell turned, after shutting and locking the door of her...

Short Stories

Anna Fuller

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Melodies, Like People, Have A Home

Melodies, like people, have a home.Otherwise, they'd wander aimlessly.They modulate and mutate as they roam,Having held their own quite painlessly,Eventually...

Poems

Nicholas Gordon

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Ban And Arriere Ban - Ballant O' Ballantrae--to Robert Louis Stevenson

Ballant O' Ballantrae--to Robert Louis Stevenson(Written in wet weather, this conveyed to the Master of Ballantraea wrong idea of a very beautiful and...

Poems

Andrew Lang

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Celibates - Mildred Lawson - Chapter 14

MILDRED LAWSON CHAPTER XIVA formal avenue of trim trees led out of the town of Melun. But these were soon exchanged for rough forest growths; and out of...

Long Stories

George Augustus Moore

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The Mysteries Of Udolpho - Volume II - Chapter VI

VOLUME II - CHAPTER VII think it is the weakness of mine eyes, That shapes this monstrous apparition. It comes upon me! JULIUS CAESARDaylight dispelled...

Long Stories

Ann Radcliffe

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The Rebel Of The School - Chapter 26. The Right Side Of The Ledger

CHAPTER XXVI. THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LEDGERRuth got up rather earlier than usual on that Saturday morning. She had a dull, stunned kind of feeling round...

Long Stories

L. T. Meade

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Tell Peter

And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself.--John 18:25. Peter, it was not outward cold But inward chill thy bosom froze, Made thee deny with...

Poems

Nannie R. Glass

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Ode Ta Spring '64

O welcome, young princess, thou sweetest of dowters, An' furst bloomin' issue o' King Sixty-four,Wi' thi brah deck'd wi' gems o' the purest o' waters,...

Poems

Unknown

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The Sea-hawk - Part 1. Sir Oliver Tressilian - Chapter 3. The Forge

PART I. SIR OLIVER TRESSILIAN. CHAPTER III. THE FORGESir Oliver's wisdom in being the first to bear Rosamund the story of that day's happenings was established...

Long Stories

Rafael Sabatini

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The Great Impersonation - Chapter 4

CHAPTER IVMr. Mangan, on their way into the grill room, loitered for a few minutes in the small reception room, chatting with some acquaintances, whilst...

Long Stories

E. Phillips Oppenheim

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The Eternal City - Part 6. The Roman Of Rome - Chapter 12

PART SIX. THE ROMAN OF ROME CHAPTER XIIBy the first post next morning "Sister Angelica" received a letter from David Rossi. "Dearest,--Your budget arrived...

Long Stories

Hall Caine

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My First Cruise

CHAPTER 1.NOTES FROM PRINGLE RUSHFORTH'S SEA LOG.A LETTER TO BROTHER HARRY, AT ETON.It has become a reality, dear Harry. I feel very strange--a curious...

Short Stories

William H. G. Kingston

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The Dynasts: An Epic Drama Of The War With Napoleon - Part 1 - Act 2 - Scene 1. The Dockyard, Gibraltar

PART FIRST. ACT SECOND. SCENE I.(The Rock is seen rising behind the town and the Alameda Gardens, and the English fleet rides at anchor in the Bay, across...

Plays

Thomas Hardy

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On Rover, A Lady's Spaniel: Instructions To A Painter

INSTRUCTIONS TO A PAINTER(1)Happiest of the spaniel race,Painter, with thy colours grace:Draw his forehead large and high,Draw his blue and humid eye;Draw...

Poems

Jonathan Swift

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The Memoirs Of Victor Hugo - Louis Bonaparte

LOUIS BONAPARTE. I. HIS DEBUTS. II. HIS ELEVATION TO THE PRESIDENCY. III. THE FIRST OFFICIAL DINNER. IV. THE FIRST MONTH. V....

Nonfictions

Victor Hugo

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The Politician Out-witted - Act 3 - Scene 4

ACT III - SCENE IVSCENE IV. Another part of MR. FRIENDLY'S House. (WORTHNOUGHT, discovered solus.)WORTHNOUGHT.Who comes here! He sha'n't see her, if I...

Plays

Samuel Low

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King Henry Vi Part 3 - ACT IV - SCENE VII

ACT IV. SCENE VII.Before York.(Enter KING EDWARD, GLOSTER, HASTINGS, and Forces.)KING EDWARD.Now, brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the rest,Yet thus...

Plays

William Shakespeare

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Richard Strauss

The composer of Heldenleben is no longer unknown to Parisians. Every year at Colonne's or Chevillard's we see his tall, thin silhouette reappear in the...

Essays

Romain Rolland

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Those Extraordinary Twins - Chapter 1. The Twins As They Really Were

Chapter I. The conglomerate twins were brought on the the stage in Chapter I of the original extravaganza. Aunt Patsy Cooper has received their letter...

Long Stories

Mark Twain

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The Trumpeter Swan - Chapter 6. Georgie-Porgie

CHAPTER VI. GEORGIE-PORGIEI It would never have happened if Aunt Claudia had been there. Aunt Claudia would have built hedges about Becky. She would have...

Long Stories

Temple Bailey

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Vegetables - Potato Salad - Spicy Potato Salad

10 ounces red potatoes 1/4 cup chopped celery 1/4 cup diced red pepper 2 tablespoons minced cilantro 1/4 cup nonfat mayonnaise 3 tablespoons nonfat sour...

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Unknown

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The Keeper Of The Door - Part 2 - Chapter 23. The Gift Of The Rajah

PART II CHAPTER XXIII. THE GIFT OF THE RAJAHOlga danced that night with the feeling that she danced upon her grave, reminding herself continually, as the...

Long Stories

Ethel May Dell

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The Tune Of Time

Ferval returned to Rouen after a fatiguing trip down the Seine as far as Croisset, the old home of Gustave Flaubert. Here he viewed, not without a dismal...

Short Stories

James Huneker

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Breakfastandbrunches - Grits Derby Day

6 c water 2 1/2 tsp salt 1 1/2 c quick grits 1/2 c butter cayenne pepper 2 - 6 oz rolls garlic cheese spread 3 eggs separated paprika Preheat...

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Unknown

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The Eustace Diamonds - Volume 1 - Chapter 10. Lizzie And Her Lover

VOLUME I CHAPTER X. Lizzie and Her LoverDuring the remainder of that Monday and all the Tuesday, Lizzie's mind was, upon the whole, averse to matrimony....

Long Stories

Anthony Trollope

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A Day Of Fate - Book 1 - Chapter 14. Kindling A Spark Of Life

BOOK I CHAPTER XIV. KINDLING A SPARK OF LIFEI soon had coffee made that was as black as the night without. Instead of calling Miss Warren, I took a tray...

Long Stories

Edward Payson Roe

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The Cash Boy - Chapter 1. A Revelation

CHAPTER I. A REVELATIONA group of boys was assembled in an open field to the west of the public schoolhouse in the town of Crawford. Most of them held...

Long Stories

Horatio Alger

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Uncle Silas; A Tale Of Bartram-haugh - Chapter 43. News At Bartram Gate

CHAPTER XLIII. NEWS AT BARTRAM GATEMilly and I, thanks to our early Bartram hours, were first down next morning; and so soon as Cousin Monica appeared...

Long Stories

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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The War Of The Worlds - BOOK 1 - THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS - Chapter 7 - HOW I REACHED HOME

For my own part, I remember nothing of my flight except the stressof blundering against trees and stumbling through the heather. Allabout me gathered...

Long Stories

H. G. Wells

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The Dog Star

It commenced the day after we took old man Stumpton out codfishing. Me and Cap'n Jonadab both told Peter T. Brown that cod wa'n't biting much at that season,...

Short Stories

Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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With Axe And Rifle - Chapter 7. Across The Plains...

CHAPTER SEVEN. ACROSS THE PLAINS--THE MARCH OF CIVILISATION--A HALT--THE TRAIL DISCOVERED--ON THE WAR-PATH--AN OBSTACLE--ARRIVAL AT THE RIVER--EXAMINING...

Long Stories

William H. G. Kingston

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