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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Cookies - Drop Cookies Devil's Food Drop Cookies

1 c Brown sugar 1/2 c Butter, softened 1 t Vanilla 2 oz (2 squares) unsweetened chocolate, Melted and cooled 1 Egg 2 c Flour 1/2 ts Baking soda 1/2 ts...

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The Adventures Of Captain Bonneville - Chapter 30

CHAPTER 30Temperature of the climate - Root Diggers on horseback - An Indian guide - Mountain prospects - The Grand Rond - Difficulties on Snake River...

Nonfictions

Washington Irving

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Discourses On The First Decade Of Titus Livius - BOOK I - Chapter XXXV

BOOK I - CHAPTER XXXVCHAPTER XXXV - Why the Creation of the Decemvirate in Rome, although brought about by the free and open Suffrage of the Citizens,...

Nonfictions

Niccolo Machiavelli

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The Prince - Chapter I - How Many Kinds of Principalities There Are, and By What Means They Are Acquired

Chapter I - How Many Kinds of Principalities There Are, and By What Means They Are AcquiredAll states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men...

Nonfictions

Niccolo Machiavelli

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The People Of The Mist - Chapter XXIX - THE TRIAL OF THE GODS

Juanna had scarcely restored the remainder of her deadly medicine toits hiding-place, when the curtains were drawn and Nam entered. Afterhis customary...

Long Stories

H. Rider Haggard

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Pasta And Pastasauces - Pasta - Giobbi’s Primavera Pasta

Pasta And Pastasauces - Pasta - Giobbi's Primavera Pasta

Tomato Salad/Sauce: 1 pound ripe tomatoes (2 or 3 tomatoes) 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper...

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John Deane Of Nottingham: Historic Adventures By Land And Sea - Chapter 23. After The Battle

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE. AFTER THE BATTLE The brave crew of the "Weymouth" had enough to do to repair their own damages to escape a similar fate. As it was,...

Long Stories

William H. G. Kingston

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The Mother Of St. Nicholas, A Story Of Duty And Peril

CHAPTER I. WATCHING FOR THE PREY. Go back into the third century after Christ, travel east into the famous Mediterranean Sea, survey the beautiful south-west...

Short Stories

Grant Balfour

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The Headsman: The Abbaye Des Vignerons - Chapter 9

Chapter IXWhere are my Switzers? Let them guard the door: What is the matter?Hamlet.The American autumn, or fall, as we poetically and affectionately term...

Long Stories

James Fenimore Cooper

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The Fiddling Man

Breault's cough was not pleasant to hear. A cough possesses manifold and almost unclassifiable diversities. But there is only one cough when a man has...

Short Stories

James Oliver Curwood

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Three Of A Kind

A Lawyer in whom an instinct of justice had survived the wreck of his ignorance of law was retained for the defence of a burglar whom the police had taken...

Short Stories

Ambrose Bierce

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The Knights Of The Cross - Part 1 - Chapter 7

PART FIRST: CHAPTER VII During this time Zbyszko was entirely forgotten. Who in the time of such sorrow and misfortune, could remember about the noble...

Long Stories

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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King Of The Birds

Once upon a time, when the world was very new and when the birds had just learned from Mother Magpie how to build their nests, some one said, "We ought...

Short Stories

Abbie Farwell Brown

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The Grandissimes - Chapter 44. Bad For Charlie Keene

CHAPTER XLIV. BAD FOR CHARLIE KEENEOn the same evening of which we have been telling, about the time that Aurora and Clotilde were dropping their last...

Long Stories

George Washington Cable

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Bread - Sweet Bread - Applesauce Bread

4 eggs 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 cup salad oil 2 cups applesauce 2/3 cup milk 3 1/2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1...

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Unknown

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Masaccio

IN THE BRANCACCI CHAPELHe came to Florence long ago,And painted here these walls, that shoneFor Raphael and for Angelo,With secrets deeper than his own,Then...

Poems

James Russell Lowell

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Dick Onslow Among The Redskins - Chapter 21

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE I EXHAUST BRUIN'S PATIENCE--MANUFACTURE SOME FISHING-LINES, AND DESCEND FROM MY PERCH IN THE TREE--CATCH A BIG FISH TO MY GREAT JOY,...

Long Stories

William H. G. Kingston

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The New Tenant - Chapter 21. Sir Allan Beaumerville Has A Caller

CHAPTER XXI. SIR ALLAN BEAUMERVILLE HAS A CALLERSir Allan Beaumerville, Bart., _dilettante physician and man of fashion, was, on the whole, one of the...

Long Stories

E. Phillips Oppenheim

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The Tale Of Solomon Owl - XXII - IT WAS SOLOMON'S FAULT

XXII - IT WAS SOLOMON'S FAULTReddy Woodpecker had a very good reason for not laughing when he met Solomon Owl. Of course, he knew nothing whatever of Solomon's...

Short Stories

Arthur Scott Bailey

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Mistress Wilding - Chapter 15. Lyme Of The King

CHAPTER XV. LYME OF THE KINGOn the next day, which was Friday, the country folk continued to come in, and by evening Monmouth's forces amounted to a thousand...

Long Stories

Rafael Sabatini

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Cookies - Drop - Mom's 101 Cookies

1 cup sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup margarine 1/2 cup oil 1 egg 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup coconut -- flaked...

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Unknown

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A Parable Of Girlhood

Behold a girl went forth to walk on the highway leading to life. And as she walked there grew up beneath her feet flowers of every kind and color. "Ah!"...

Short Stories

Margaret White Eggleston

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The Man Who Went Wrong

I first met Jack Burridge nearly ten years ago on a certain North-country race-course. The saddling bell had just rung for the chief event of the day....

Short Stories

Jerome K Jerome

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Beyond - Part 3 - Chapter 1

PART III CHAPTER I Gyp was going up to town. She sat in the corner of a first-class carriage, alone. Her father had gone up by an earlier train, for the...

Long Stories

John Galsworthy

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Frankenstein - Chapter 23

It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated...

Long Stories

Mary Shelley

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Mary Stuart: A Tragedy - Act 5

ACT VSCENE I. (The Scene the same as in the First Act.) (HANNAH KENNEDY in deep mourning, her eyes still red from weeping, in great but quiet anguish,...

Plays

Frederich Schiller

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The Golden Journey

All day he drowses by the sail With dreams of her, and all night long The broken waters are at song Of how she lingers, wild and pale, When...

Poems

William Vaughn Moody

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Pariah Planet - Chapter 3

There was no answer from the ground when breakout came and Calhoun drove the Med Ship to a favorable position for a call. He patiently repeated, over and...

Long Stories

Murray Leinster

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Sandwiches - Flank Steak With Apple Barbecue Sauce

1 (1 1/2 lb) flank steak Apple Barbecue Sauce 6 onion rolls 6 tomato slices leaf lettuce purple onion slices -- optional coarsely ground pepper Apple...

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Unknown

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Joachim Du Bellay

In Du Bellay the literary Renaissance, French but transfigured by Italy, middle-north of the plains but looking southward to the Mediterranean, came to...

Essays

Hilaire Belloc

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King Richard Ii - ACT V - SCENE V

ACT V. SCENE V.Pomfret Castle. The dungeon of the Castle.(Enter KING RICHARD.) KING RICHARD. I have been studying how I may compare This prison where...

Plays

William Shakespeare

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The Coy One

ONE Spring-morning bright and fair,Roam'd a shepherdess and sang;Young and beauteous, free from care,Through the fields her clear notes rang:So, Ia, Ia!...

Poems

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The Cabin-boy

The master of a smack was lately accused of having murdered an apprentice; so the mob made desperate attempts to lynch the prisoner every time he was brought...

Short Stories

James Runciman

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The Prince And The Pauper - Chapter 16. The State Dinner

Chapter XVI The dinner hour drew near--yet strangely enough, the thought brought but slight discomfort to Tom, and hardly any terror. The morning's experiences...

Long Stories

Mark Twain

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The Banquet (il Convito) - The First Treatise - Chapter XII

The First Treatise - CHAPTER XIIIf flames of fire should issue visibly through the windows of a house,and if any one should ask if there were fire within...

Nonfictions

Dante Alighieri

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The Ocean

Translated by Herman Bernstein. CHAPTER I A misty February twilight is descending over the ocean. The newly fallen snow has melted and the warm air is...

Short Stories

Leonid N. Andreyev

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Salads And Dressings - First Yard Line Fruit Salad With Tequila And Lime

Syrup: 3/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup water 1/4 cup fresh lime juice 2 to 3 Tblsp. tequila Salad:3 cups fresh pineapple chunks 2 pints fresh strawberries, halved...

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Unknown

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Crock_pot - Chicken Parmigiana

3 whole chicken breasts (or 6 halves) 1 egg 1 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper 1 cup dry bread crumbs 1/2 cup butter 1 small eggplant, cut into large slices about...

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Unknown

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The Allen House; Or, Twenty Years Ago And Now - Preface

WE point to two ways in life, and if the young man and maiden, whose feet are lingering in soft green meadows and flowery walks, will consider these two...

Long Stories

T. S. Arthur

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The Heart Of The Hills - Chapter 6

CHAPTER VIThe cabin was unlighted when Jason came in sight of it and apprehension straightway seized him; so that he broke into a run, but stopped at the...

Long Stories

John Fox

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Vegetables - Cherry With Garlic And Basil

14 cherry tomatoes -- cut in half 1 tsp. olive oil 3 cloves garlic -- chopped 6 basil leaves -- a chiffonade salt and freshly ground black pepper -- to...

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Unknown

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Song (take Back The Sigh, Thy Lips Of Art)

Take back the sigh, thy lips of art In passion's moment breathed to me;Yet, no--it must not, will not part, 'Tis now the life-breath of my heart,And has...

Poems

Thomas Moore

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"william Smith, Editor"

The scene is the Editor's room in the office of The Lark. Two walls of the room are completely hidden from floor to ceiling by magnificently-bound books:...

Short Stories

A. A. Milne

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Out Of Babylon

THEIR looks for me are bitter, And bitter is their word--I may not glance behind unseen, I may not sigh unheard.So fare we forth from Babylon, Along...

Poems

Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

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The Thunder Storm

The praise be thine, Almighty, matchless King, Whose care and power, my muse presumes to sing; Whose tender care protects, while thousands sleep,...

Poems

John Castillo

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The White Hat

I MAJOR JACK RAGSTAFF "Hallo! Innes," said Paul Harley as his secretary entered. "Someone is making a devil of a row outside." "This is the offender, Mr....

Short Stories

Sax Rohmer

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Wyandotte; Or, The Hutted Knoll: A Tale - Chapter 15

Chapter XV----"I could teach you, How to choose right, but then I am forsworn; So will I never be; so may you miss me; But if you do, you'll make me...

Long Stories

James Fenimore Cooper

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The Bertrams - Volume 1 - Chapter 5. The Choice Of A Profession

VOLUME I CHAPTER V. THE CHOICE OF A PROFESSIONWe must now go back to our other hero, or, rather, to another of our heroes. Arthur Wilkinson is our melancholy...

Long Stories

Anthony Trollope

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