The Virgin Of The Sun - BOOK I - Chapter II - THE LADY BLANCHE
So I went, with a sore heart, for I remembered that when my father andbrothers were drowned, although I was then but a little one, my motherhad foreseen...
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Books Vs. "books"
Books Vs. "books"
BY A BIBLIOMANIAC A VOLUME’S just received on vellum print. The book is worth the vellum-no more in’t. But, as I search my head for thoughts,...
Poems
John Kendrick Bangs
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The Third Degree: A Narrative Of Metropolitan Life - Chapter 17
The Third Degree: A Narrative Of Metropolitan Life - Chapter 17
CHAPTER XVIIThe news that Judge Brewster would appear for the defendant at the approaching trial of Howard Jeffries went through the town like wildfire,...
Long Stories
Arthur Hornblow
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Ben Burton - Chapter 16
Ben Burton - Chapter 16
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Our prize--a ship of six hundred tons, and mounting fourteen guns-- called the "Santiago," proved to be of considerable value. A prize...
Long Stories
William H. G. Kingston
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Roughing It - Chapter 41
Roughing It - Chapter 41
CHAPTER XLI. A Rheumatic Patient--Day Dreams--An Unfortunate Stumble--I Leave Suddenly--Another Patient--Higbie in the Cabin--Our Balloon Bursted--Worth...
Long Stories
Mark Twain
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Mothers
Mothers
("Regardez: les enfants.")(XX., June, 1884.)See all the children gathered there,Their mother near; so young, so fair,An eider sister she might be,And yet...
Poems
Victor Hugo
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Paul Patoff - Chapter 16
Paul Patoff - Chapter 16
CHAPTER XVIIf any of the party could have guessed what Gregorios Balsamides and I were doing on that dark night, they would not have slept as soundly as...
Long Stories
F. Marion Crawford
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Uncle Sam's Boys With Pershing's Troops - Chapter 21. Seeking Death More Than Escape
Uncle Sam's Boys With Pershing's Troops - Chapter 21. Seeking Death More Than Escape
CHAPTER XXI. SEEKING DEATH MORE THAN ESCAPEIn another instant the French officer who had been standing next to Dick attempted the same trick. He had just...
Long Stories
H. Irving Hancock
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The French Revolution, A History - Volume 3. The Guillotine - Book 3.5. Terror The Order Of The Day - Chapter 3.5.5. Like A Thunder-Cloud
The French Revolution, A History - Volume 3. The Guillotine - Book 3.5. Terror The Order Of The Day - Chapter 3.5.5. Like A Thunder-Cloud
Volume III. The Guillotine Book 3.V. Terror The Order Of The Day Chapter 3.5.V. Like a Thunder-CloudBut the grand, and indeed substantially primary and...
Nonfictions
Thomas Carlyle
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Penrod - Chapter 8. School
Penrod - Chapter 8. School
CHAPTER VIII. SCHOOLNext morning, when he had once more resumed the dreadful burden of education, it seemed infinitely duller. And yet what pleasanter...
Long Stories
Booth Tarkington
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Life And Habit - Chapter 8. Application Of The Foregoing Chapters...
Life And Habit - Chapter 8. Application Of The Foregoing Chapters...
CHAPTER VIII. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTERS--THE ASSIMILATION OF OUTSIDE MATTERLet us now return to the position which we left at the end of the...
Nonfictions
Samuel Butler
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Saracinesca - Chapter 30
Saracinesca - Chapter 30
CHAPTER XXX Even old Saracinesca's iron strength was in need of rest when, at the end of forty-eight hours, he again entered his son's rooms, and threw...
Long Stories
F. Marion Crawford
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Elsie Venner: A Romance Of Destiny - Chapter XIX. THE SPIDER ON HIS THREAD
Elsie Venner: A Romance Of Destiny - Chapter XIX. THE SPIDER ON HIS THREAD
CHAPTER XIX. THE SPIDER ON HIS THREADThere was nobody, then, to counsel poor Elsie, except her father, who had learned to let her have her own way so as...
Long Stories
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Nat The Naturalist: A Boy's Adventures In The Eastern Seas - Chapter 13. How I Learned To Shoot
Nat The Naturalist: A Boy's Adventures In The Eastern Seas - Chapter 13. How I Learned To Shoot
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. HOW I LEARNED TO SHOOTI did not know where we were going, or how we got there, in my state of excitement; but I found myself as if in...
Long Stories
George Manville Fenn
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Vanished Arizona: Recollections Of The Army Life By A New England Woman - Chapter 16. Stoneman's Lake
Vanished Arizona: Recollections Of The Army Life By A New England Woman - Chapter 16. Stoneman's Lake
CHAPTER XVI. STONEMAN'S LAKEThe road began now to ascend, and after twenty miles' travelling we reached a place called Updyke's Tanks. It was a nice place,...
Nonfictions
Martha Summerhayes
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