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The Life of Cicero / Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2009-05-03 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

* * * Chapter X. CICERO'S DEATH. b.c. 43, ætat. 64. What other letters from Cicero we possess were written almost exclusively with the view of keeping the army together, ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
Uncle Bernac / A Memory of the Empire by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

'It seems a very easy service.' 'I wish all our services were as easy, Monsieur de Laval. That is Joseph Linden, whose foot is the exact size of the Emperor's. ...
( Category: History December 17,2017 )
The Crime of the Congo by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

Such is the story—or a very small portion of it—which His Majesty’s Consul conveyed to His Majesty’s Government as to the condition of those natives, who, “in the name of ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 17,2017 )
Red Cap Tales / Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott & S. R. Crockett
epub |eng | 2007-09-17 | Author:Sir Walter Scott & S. R. Crockett [Scott, Walter, Sir]

It was a fox-hunting morning, and during a long run Frank sustained his character as a good and daring rider, to the admiration of Diana and Sir Hildebrand, and to ...
( Category: History December 17,2017 )
The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
epub |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CHAPTER XX Credit me, friend, it hath been ever thus, Since the ark rested on Mount Ararat. False man hath sworn, and woman hath believed— Repented and reproach'd, and then ...
( Category: Children's Books December 17,2017 )
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. Being skilless in these parts, which, to a stranger, Unguided and unfriended, often prove Rough and inhospitable. TWELFTH NIGHT. There was a little attempt at preparation, now ...
( Category: Children's Books December 17,2017 )
Marmion by Sir Walter Scott
epub |eng | 2003-05-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CANTO FOURTH.—THE CAMP. I. Eustace, I said, did blithely mark The first notes of the merry lark. The lark sang shrill, the cock he crew, And loudly Marmion's bugles blew, ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete by Sir Walter Scott
epub |eng | 2004-08-21 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CHAPTER FOURTH. "My native land, good night." Lord Byron. In the present day, a journey from Edinburgh to London is a matter at once safe, brief, and simple, however inexperienced ...
( Category: History December 17,2017 )
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Sir Walter Scott
epub |eng | 2006-02-26 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CHAPTER XXXIX THE JOURNEY IS CONTINUED Before Waverley awakened from his repose, the day was far advanced, and he began to feel that he had passed many hours without food. ...
( Category: History December 17,2017 )
The Party by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
epub |eng | 2004-09-09 | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich]

The commander sighed, thought a moment, and said in a loud voice: "I am thinking of going to see Alexandra Yevgrafovna. I must call on her. Well, good-bye. I shall ...
( Category: Historical Mystery December 17,2017 )
Rambles Beyond Railways; / or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Wilkie Collins [Collins, Wilkie]

* * * While we were sitting in the counting-house, we had some talk with our good-humoured and intelligent guide, on the subject of miners and mining at Botallack. Some ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-07-10 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

345.jpg (145K) My apparatus was simple: a little red paint and a bit of white paper. I painted the ball of the client's thumb, took a print of it on ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 17,2017 )
The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Thomas De Quincey [De Quincey, Thomas]

And, at the same time, to countenance the belief that he had been disappointed, he would affect to sigh, exclaiming—"Ah! that I should thus fruitlessly have squandered a sum of ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 17,2017 )
The Third Violet by Stephen Crane
epub |eng | 2006-10-20 | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

* * * CHAPTER XX. "He wrote that he was coming home this week," said Pennoyer. "Did he?" asked Florinda indifferently. "Yes. Aren't you glad?" They were still watching her ...
( Category: Children's Books December 17,2017 )
Wounds in the rain / War stories by Stephen Crane
epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

THIS MAJESTIC LIE In the twilight, a great crowd was streaming up the Prado in Havana. The people had been down to the shore to laugh and twiddle their fingers ...
( Category: Children's Books December 17,2017 )

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