Full Online Books: December 2013

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

A Lesson In Latin

Our Latin books, in motley row, Invite us to our task-- Gay Horace, stately Cicero: Yet there's one verb, when once we know, No higher skill...

Poems

Lewis Carroll

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Edison's Conquest Of Mars - Chapter 17

Chapter XVII The Emperor Survives. Through all this terrible contest the emperor of the Martians had remained standing upon his throne, gazing at the...

Long Stories

Garrett Putman Serviss

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Jane Talbot - Letter 69 - To Mr. Montford

Letter LXIX - To Mr. MontfordTo Mr. Montford New Haven, February 10. My dear friend:-- This letter is written in extreme pain; yet no pain that I ever...

Long Stories

Charles Brockden Brown

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Asian - Chicken - Chicken-peanut Pasta

2 teaspoons sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch 2 teaspoons peeled minced ginger root 1/2 cup water 3 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce 1 1/2 teaspoons white...

Learning Kitchen

Unknown

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A New Year Letter

To Two Friends married in the New Year(TO. MR. AND MRS. WELCH)Another year to its last day,Like a lost sovereign, runaway,Tips down the gloomy grid of...

Poems

Richard Le Gallienne

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Famine's Realm

To him in whom the love of Nature hasImperfectly supplanted the desireAnd dread necessity of food, your shore,Fair Oakland, is a terror. Over allYour sunny...

Poems

Ambrose Bierce

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The Life And Adventures Of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter - Chapter 58. In Which The Reader Will Find Much That Is Curious And Interesting

CHAPTER LVIII. IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND MUCH THAT IS CURIOUS AND INTERESTINGWHEN morning came, and the priests were awakened by the singing of birds...

Long Stories

F. Colburn Adams

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Man Size - Chapter 6. "Something About These Guys"

CHAPTER VI. "SOMETHING ABOUT THESE GUYS"West glared at Morse, his heavy chin outthrust, his bowed legs wide apart. "You've done run on the rope long enough...

Long Stories

William Macleod Raine

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Rainbow Valley - Chapter 7. A Fishy Episode

CHAPTER VII. A FISHY EPISODERilla Blythe walked proudly, and perhaps a little primly, through the main "street" of the Glen and up the manse hill, carefully...

Long Stories

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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My Novel - Book 5 - Chapter 2

BOOK FIFTH CHAPTER II"HALT, cried a voice; and not a little surprised was Leonard when the stranger who had accosted him the preceding evening got into...

Long Stories

Edward Bulwer-lytton

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Li'l' Gal

Oh, de weathah it is balmy an' de breeze is sighin' low. Li'l' gal, An' de mockin' bird is singin' in de locus' by de do', Li'l' gal;...

Poems

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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To God (pardon Me, God, Once More I Thee Entreat)

Pardon me, God, once more I Thee entreat, That I have placed Thee in so mean a seat Where round about Thou seest but all things vain, Uncircumcis'd,...

Poems

(poet) Robert Herrick

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My Father's Memoir

_A LETTER TO JOHN CAIRNS, D. D._ "I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive." LETTER TO JOHN CAIRNS, D. D. 23...

Essays

John Brown

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Who Killed Capt. Walker?

Few incidents of the campaign in Mexico seem so mixed up and indefinite as that relative to the taking of Huamantla, and the death of that noble and chivalric...

Short Stories

Falconbridge

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A Texas Ranger - Part 1. The Man From The Panhandle - Chapter 6. Somebody's Acting Mighty Foolish

PART I. THE MAN FROM THE PANHANDLE CHAPTER VI. SOMEBODY'S ACTING MIGHTY FOOLISHLarry Neill watched him vanish and then turned smiling to Miss Kinney. "All...

Long Stories

William Macleod Raine

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Dear Fanny

"She has beauty, but still you must keep your heart cool; "She has wit, but you mustn't be caught, so;"Thus Reason advises, but Reason's a fool, And...

Poems

Thomas Moore

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The Outdoor Girls On Pine Island - Chapter 22. Mollie Wins

CHAPTER XXII. MOLLIE WINSThe Outdoor Girls found the boys waiting for them, and evidently as eager as the girls to begin the race. "Well, it didn't take...

Long Stories

Laura Lee Hope

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To My Friend On The Death Of His Sister

Sophia Sturge, sister of Joseph Sturge, of Birmingham, the President of the British Complete Suffrage Association, died in the 6th month, 1845. She was...

Poems

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Why The Indians Whip The Buffalo-berries From The Bushes

(Indian Why Story)The Indian believes that all things live again; that all were created by one and the same power; that nothing was created in vain; and...

Short Stories

Frank Bird Linderman

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The Sculptor And The Statue Of Jupiter

A block of marble was so fine, To buy it did a sculptor hasten. 'What shall my chisel, now 'tis mine-- A god, a table, or a basin?' 'A god,' said...

Poems

Jean De La Fontaine

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Pizza - Spinach And Caramelized Onion Pizza

Buy creamed spinach, not spinach in butter sauce. To lower fat, use Green Giant boil-in-bag creamed spinach. Other brands are higher in fat. Cooking spray...

Learning Kitchen

Unknown

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Italian Journeys - Minor Travels - Chapter 1. Pisa

MINOR TRAVELS CHAPTER I. PISAI am afraid that the talk of the modern railway traveller, if he is honest, must be a great deal of the custodians, the vetturini,...

Nonfictions

William Dean Howells

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Cakesandfrostings - Cake Chocolate Banana Cake

1/2 cup margarine 1 1/4 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled 2 cups Ceresota flour *(see note at end of recipe) 1/2...

Learning Kitchen

Unknown

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The Seaboard Parish - Volume 3 - Chapter 6. The Gathering Storm

VOLUME III CHAPTER VI. THE GATHERING STORMThe weather cleared up again the next day, and for a fortnight it was lovely. In this region we saw less of the...

Long Stories

George Macdonald

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Monday, December 30, 2013

On Filling An Ink-well

Those who buy their ink in little stone jugs may prefer to do so because the pottle reminds them of cruiskeen lawn or ginger beer (with its wire-bound...

Essays

Christopher Morley

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Tent On The Beach: The Worship Of Nature

The harp at Nature's advent strungHas never ceased to play;The song the stars of morning sungHas never died away.And prayer is made, and praise is given,By...

Poems

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Tom Swift And His Giant Cannon: The Longest Shots On Record - Chapter 10. Something Wrong

CHAPTER X. SOMETHING WRONG"Bless my buttons!" cried Mr. Damon. "Let's chase after him!" yelled Ned. "Koku kin run de fastest oh any oh us," put in Eradicate....

Long Stories

Victor Appleton

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The Fugitive

Flying his hair and his eyes averse, Fleet are his feet and his heart apart. How could we clear his charms rehearse? Fleet are his feet and...

Poems

John Collings Squire

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To Music, To Becalm A Sweet Sick Youth

Charms, that call down the moon from out her sphere, On this sick youth work your enchantments here! Bind up his senses with your numbers, so...

Poems

(poet) Robert Herrick

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What The Miner In The Desert Said

The moon's a brass-hooped water-keg, A wondrous water-feast. If I could climb the ridge and drink And give drink to my beast; If I could drain...

Poems

Vachel Lindsay

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A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial...

Essays

Jonathan Swift

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Babbitt - Chapter 16

Chapter XVI THE certainty that he was not going to be accepted by the McKelveys made Babbitt feel guilty and a little absurd. But he went more regularly...

Long Stories

Sinclair Lewis

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The High School Left End - Chapter 22. The Thanksgiving Day Game

CHAPTER XXII. THE THANKSGIVING DAY GAMESay, you're a great one, Prescott, to throw us down in this way," chaffed Drayne, as Dick strolled into dressing...

Long Stories

H. Irving Hancock

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The Egoist: A Comedy In Narrative - Chapter 5. Clara Middleton

CHAPTER V. CLARA MIDDLETONThe great meeting of Sir Willoughby Patterne and Miss Middleton had taken place at Cherriton Grange, the seat of a county grandee...

Long Stories

George Meredith

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Bread - Sweet Bread Babka By Angel

Ingredients: 1 tsp sugar 1/2 cup warm water 2 pkg. dry yeast 6 - 7 cups flour - unsifted 1 cup sugar 1 tsp salt 1/2 lb. butter 3/4 cup milk 1 cup heavy...

Learning Kitchen

Unknown

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"girl"

In gilt letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and...

Short Stories

O Henry

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The Lost Girl - Chapter 12. Allaye Also Is Engaged

CHAPTER XII. ALLAYE ALSO IS ENGAGEDAlvina found it pleasant to be respected as she was respected in Lancaster. It is not only the prophet who hath honour...

Long Stories

D. H. Lawrence

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The Forty-five Guardsmen - Chapter 48. The Spanish Ambassador

CHAPTER XLVIII. THE SPANISH AMBASSADORThe king rejoined Chicot, who was still agitated with fears as to the explanation. "Well, Chicot," said Henri, "do...

Long Stories

Alexandre Dumas

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Blind Love - Period 3 - Chapter 27. The Bride At Home

PERIOD III CHAPTER XXVII. THE BRIDE AT HOMELEFT alone with the woman whose charm still held him to her, cruelly as she had tried his devotion by her marriage,...

Long Stories

Wilkie Collins

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The Island Of Doctor Moreau - Chapter 11. The Hunting Of The Man

CHAPTER XI. THE HUNTING OF THE MANIT came before my mind with an unreasonable hope of escape that the outer door of my room was still open to me. I was...

Long Stories

H. G. Wells

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At The Earth's Core - Chapter II - A STRANGE WORLD

I WAS UNCONSCIOUS LITTLE MORE THAN AN INSTANT, for as I lunged forward from the crossbeam to which I had been clinging, and fell with a crash to the floor...

Long Stories

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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By Conduct And Courage; A Story Of The Days Of Nelson - Chapter 18. St. Vincent And Camperdown

CHAPTER XVIII. ST. VINCENT AND CAMPERDOWNOn the 19th of January, 1797, Lord Bridport detached Rear-admiral Parker with five battle-ships--among them the...

Long Stories

George Alfred Henty

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An Easter Prayer

OH let me knowThe power of Thy resurrection;Oh let me showThy risen life in calm and clear reflection;Oh let me soarWhere Thou, rny Saviour Christ, art...

Poems

Frances Ridley Havergal

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Love Me In The Circle Of Your Evening

Love me in the circle of your evening,And in the morning quiet of your dreams.Love me underneath ambitious schemes,And when they slow and time can use...

Poems

Nicholas Gordon

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Veranilda - Chapter 5. Basil And Veranilda

CHAPTER V. BASIL AND VERANILDAAt the appointed hour next morning, when yet no ray of sunshine had touched the gloomy little street, though a limpid sky...

Long Stories

George Gissing

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The Whirlpool - Part The First - Chapter 2

It was half past ten when Rolfe knocked at the door in Hamilton Terrace. He learnt from the servant that Mr. Carnaby was at home, and had company. In the...

Long Stories

George Gissing

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"please, Sir, I Would Rather Not"

An old sailor tells the following story of a boy who suffered much in resisting temptation:-- When offered a drink, the lad said, "Excuse me; I would rather...

Short Stories

Anonymous

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Anna Karenina - Part six - Chapter 1

Darya Alexandrovna spent the summer with her children atPokrovskoe, at her sister Kitty Levin's. The house on her ownestate was quite in ruins, and Levin...

Long Stories

Leo Tolstoy

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