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| When The Yule Log Burns |
| By Dalrymple, Leona |
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By, Dalrymple, Leona
Polly, The Doctor's Old White Mare, Plodded Slowly Along The Snowy Country Road By The Picket Fence, And Turned In At The Snow-capped Posts. Ahead, Roofed With The Ragged Ermine Of A Newly-fallen Snow, The Doctor's Old-fashioned House Loomed ...
| When Knighthood Was In Flower |
| By Major, Charles |
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By, Major, Charles
"there Lived A Knight, When Knighthood Was In Flow'r, Who Charmed Alike The Tilt-yard And The Bow'r."...
| Vanity Fair |
| By Thackeray, William Makepeace |
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By, Thackeray, William Makepeace
As The Manager Of The Performance Sits Before The Curtain On The Boards And Looks Into The Fair, A Feeling Of Profound Melancholy Comes Over Him In His Survey Of The Bustling Place....
| Up In Ardmuirland |
| By Barrett, Michael |
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By, Barrett, Michael
Val And I, Being Twins, Have Always Been Looked Upon As Inseparables. True, We Have Been Often Forced Apart During Life's Course; Yet, Somehow, We Have Always Managed To Drift Back Again Into The Old Companionship Which Nature Seems To Have ...
| Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| By Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
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By, Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Late In The Afternoon Of A Chilly Day In February, Two Gentlemen Were Sitting Alone Over Their Wine, In A Well-furnished Dining Parlor, In The Town Of P----, In Kentucky. There Were No Servants Present, And The Gentlemen, With Chairs Closely ...
| Ulysses |
| By Joyce, James |
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By, Joyce, James
Stately, Plump Buck Mulligan Came From The Stairhead, Bearing A Bowl Of Lather On Which A Mirror And A Razor Lay Crossed. A Yellow Dressinggown, Ungirdled, Was Sustained Gently Behind Him By The Mild Morning Air....
| The Young Musician |
| By Alger, Horatio |
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By, Alger, Horatio
"as For The Boy," Said Squire Pope, With His Usual Autocratic Air, "i Shall Place Him In The Poorhouse."...
| The Voyage Out |
| By Woolf, Virginia |
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By, Woolf, Virginia
As The Streets That Lead From The Strand To The Embankment Are Very Narrow, It Is Better Not To Walk Down Them Arm-in-arm. If You Persist, Lawyers' Clerks Will Have To Make Flying Leaps Into The Mud; Young Lady Typists Will Have To Fidget Behind ...
| The Virgin And The Gypsy |
| By Lawrence, David Herbert |
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By, Lawrence, David Herbert
When The Vicar's Wife Went Off With A Young And Penniless Man The Scandal Knew No Bounds. Her Two Little Girls Were Only Seven And Nine Years Old Respectively. And The Vicar Was Such A Good Husband. True, His Hair Was Grey. ...
| The Virgin And The Gypsy |
| By Lawrence, David Herbert |
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By, Lawrence, David Herbert
When The Vicar's Wife Went Off With A Young And Penniless Man The Scandal Knew No Bounds. Her Two Little Girls Were Only Seven And Nine Years Old Respectively. And The Vicar Was Such A Good Husband. True, His Hair Was Grey. ...
| The Trial |
| By Kafka, Franz |
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By, Kafka, Franz
Someone Must Have Been Telling Lies About Josef K., He Knew He Had Done Nothing Wrong But, One Morning, He Was Arrested. Every Day At Eight In The Morning He Was Brought His Breakfast By Mrs. Grubach's Cook - Mrs. Grubach Was His Landlady - But ...
| The Trail Horde |
| By Seltzer, Charles Alden |
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By, Seltzer, Charles Alden
There Were Fifty Thousand Acres Within View Of The Ranchhouse?virgin Grass Land Dotted With Sage, Running Over A Wide Level, Into Little Hills, And So On To An Upland Whose Rise Was So Gradual That It Could Be Seen Only From A Distance, Best From ...
| The Thin Red Line; And Blue Blood |
| By Griffiths, Arthur |
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By, Griffiths, Arthur
In The Paris Of The First Half Of This Century There Was No Darker, Dingier, Or More Forbidding Quarter Than That Which Lay North Of The Rue De Rivoli, Round About The Great Central Market, Commonly Called The Halles....
| The Story Of The Prophet Jonas |
| By Tyndale, William |
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By, Tyndale, William
The Word Of The Lord Came Unto The Prophet Jonas The Son Of Amithai Saying: Rise And Get Thee To Nineve That Great City And Preach Unto Them, How That Their Wickedness Is Come Up Before Me....
| The Story Of Dago |
| By Fellows-johnston, Annie |
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By, Fellows-johnston, Annie
Here I Am At Last, Ring-tail! The Boys Have Gone To School, Thank Fortune, And Little Elsie Has Been Taken To Kindergarten. Everybody In The House Thinks That I Am Safe Up-stairs In The Little Prison Of A Room That They Made For Me In The At...
| The Stolen Singer |
| By Bellinger, Martha Idell Fletcher |
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By, Bellinger, Martha Idell Fletcher
The Voice Was Firm, But The Lady Herself Hesitated As She Stepped From The Tonneau. There Was No Answer. Holding The Flapping Ends Of Her Veil Away From Her Face, She Turned And Looked Fairly At The Driver Of The Machine....
| The Secret Garden |
| By Burnett, Frances Hodgson |
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By, Burnett, Frances Hodgson
When Mary Lennox Was Sent To Misselthwaite Manor To Live With Her Uncle Everybody Said She Was The Most Disagreeable-looking Child Ever Seen. It Was True, Too. She Had A Little Thin Face And A Little Thin Body, Thin Light Hair And A Sour ...
| The Second Honeymoon |
| By Ayres, Ruby M. |
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By, Ayres, Ruby M.
James Challoner, Known To His Friends And Intimates As Jimmy, Brushed An Imaginary Speck Of Dust From The Shoulder Of His Dinner Jacket, And Momentarily Stopped His Cheery Whistling To Stare At Himself In The Glass With Critical Eyes....
| The Romance Of A Christmas Card |
| By Wiggin, Kate Douglas |
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By, Wiggin, Kate Douglas
It Was Christmas Eve And A Saturday Night When Mrs. Larrabee, The Beulah Minister's Wife, Opened The Door Of The Study Where Her Husband Was Deep In The Revision Of His Next Day's Sermon, And Thrust In Her Comely Head Framed In A Knitted Ri...
| The Return Of The Native |
| By Hardy, Thomas |
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The Date At Which The Following Events Are Assumed To Have Occurred May Be Set Down As Between 1840 And 1850, When The Old Watering-place Herein Called "budmouth" Still Retained Sufficient Afterglow From Its Georgian Gaiety And Prestige To Lend It ...
| The Queen's Cup |
| By Henty, G. A. |
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By, Henty, G. A.
A Large Party Were Assembled In The Drawing Room Of Greendale, Sir John Greendale's Picturesque Old Mansion House. It Was Early In September. The Men Had Returned From Shooting, And The Guests Were Gathered In The Drawing Room; In The Pleasant Half ...
| The Primadonna |
| By Crawford, F. Marion |
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By, Crawford, F. Marion
When The Accident Happened, Cordova Was Singing The Mad Scene In _lucia_ For The Last Time In That Season, And She Had Never Sung It Better. _the Bride Of Lammermoor_ Is The Greatest Love-story Ever Written, And It Was Nothing Short Of ...
| The Point Of Honor |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
Napoleon The First, Whose Career Had The Quality Of A Duel Against The Whole Of Europe, Disliked Duelling Between The Officers Of His Army. The Great Military Emperor Was Not A Swashbuckler, And Had Little Respect For Tradition....
| The Pawns Count |
| By Oppenheim, E. Phillips |
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The Usual Little Crowd Was Waiting In The Lobby Of A Fashionable London Restaurant A Few Minutes Before The Popular Luncheon Hour. Pamela Van Teyl, A Very Beautiful American Girl, Dressed In The Extreme Of Fashion, Which She Seemed Somehow To ...
| The Mintage |
| By Hubbard, Elbert |
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Riding On The Grand Trunk Railway A Few Weeks Ago, Going From Suspension Bridge To Chicago, I Saw A Sight So Trivial That It Seems Unworthy Of Mention. Yet For Three Weeks I Have Remembered It, And So Now I'll Relate It, In Order To Get Rid Of It....
| The Magnificent Ambersons |
| By Tarkington, Booth |
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Major Amberson Had "made A Fortune" In 1873, When Other People Were Losing Fortunes, And The Magnificence Of The Ambersons Began Then. Magnificence, Like The Size Of A Fortune, Is Always Comparative, As Even Magnificent Lorenzo May Now Perceive, If ...
| The Land That Time Forgot |
| By Burroughs, Edgar Rice |
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By, Burroughs, Edgar Rice
It Must Have Been A Little After Three O'clock In The Afternoon That It Happened--the Afternoon Of June 3rd, 1916. It Seems Incredible That All That I Have Passed Through--all Those Weird And Terrifying Experiences--should Have Been Encompassed ...
| The Guinea Stamp |
| By Swan, Annie S. |
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By, Swan, Annie S.
It Was An Artist's Studio, A Poor, Shabby Little Place, With A Latticed Window Facing The North. There Was Nothing In The Furnishing Or Arrangement Of The Room To Suggest Successful Work, Or Even Artistic Taste....
| The Cornet Of Horse |
| By Henty, G. A. |
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"one, Two, Three, Four, One, Two, Three, Four--turn To Your Lady; One, Two, Three, Four--now Deep Reverence. Now You Take Her Hand; No, Not Her Whole Hand--the Tips Of Her Fingers; Now You Lead Her To Her Seat; Now A Deep Bow, So....
| The Chimes |
| By Dickens, Charles |
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There Are Not Many People -- And As It Is Desirable That A Story-teller And A Story-reader Should Establish A Mutual Understanding As Soon As Possible, Beg It To Be Noticed That I Confine This Observation Neither To Young People Nor To Little ...