Americas
epub |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:M. E. Braddon [Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)]

* * * CHAPTER XXVI. 'PROUD CAN I NEVER BE OF WHAT I HATE.' It was a Saturday afternoon, and even in that great world which has no occupation in ...
( Category: British & Irish October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-30 | Author:Molière [Molière]

SCENE IX.-SGANARELLE, VALÈRE, ERGASTE. SGAN. (Thinking himself alone). Oh, thrice and four times blessed be the law which forbids extravagance in dress! [Footnote: It is remarkable that Louis XIV., who ...
( Category: French October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:M. E. Braddon [Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)]

CHAPTER II. FADING. While the invalid in the pleasant lodgings overlooking Hyde Park grew day by day weaker, there was a change as marked in the bright young creature whose ...
( Category: Westerns October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-18 | Author:M. E. Braddon [Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)]

When we went back to the drawing-room after dinner, the Miss Collingwoods had a great deal to say to Milly about a grand croquet- match which was to take place ...
( Category: Coming of Age October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-30 | Author:M. E. Braddon [Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)]

'Go and lose it in the wood, where Rosalind lost her heart-ache. Nothing like a long ramble when one is a little out of sorts. Go and get rid of ...
( Category: British & Irish October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-31 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

It may easily be conceived that Sir Roger was not a happy man. Lying there with that brandy bottle beneath his pillow, reflecting in his moments of rest that that ...
( Category: Victorian October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shashi Tharoor

8 “Commanding Heights”: 1947–1957 One man did not join the celebrations that midnight. Mahatma Gandhi stayed in Calcutta, fasting, striving to keep the peace in a city that just a ...
( Category: India October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Twain, Mark, Griffin, Benjamin

a[It is missing—BG.] b[This entry and the two after it were written by Livy—BG.] MARK TWAIN At the Farm Summer of 1884—Jean nearly 4 yrs old. She goes out to ...
( Category: United States October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Isadora Tattlin

III. 18 I am taken to meet Alfonse, aka El Ingles (the Englishman) because his father was an East Indian from Jamaica. Alfonse is a handsome negro de pelo who ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:Herbert Mitgang

Long afterward, the thievery of Sheriff Farley and the other members of the citywide tin-box brigade contributed to the creation of the 1959 Broadway musical comedy Fiorello! The brilliant lyrics ...
( Category: State & Local October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tyler Anbinder [Anbinder, Tyler]

Frank Leslie’s depiction of a typical Roche Guard supporter. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, (July 11, 1857). Collection of the Library of Congress. While the origin of the term “Dead Rabbit” ...
( Category: Tap October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Thomas A. Foster [Foster, Thomas A.]

Franklin and French Beauties As for Franklin's reputation while a widower in France, today Franklin appears to be the harmless older man and not the threatening sexual deviant. The "French ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Perry

Before I depart New York, my editor takes me to lunch at the Monkey Bar. I become uncomfortable with the stares of the men in the four-figure suits, to say ...
( Category: State & Local October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Enss, Chris [Enss, Chris]

ONE TIME HELPING TO DELIVER A CHILD LED PATTY BARTLETT SESSIONS TO PURSUE A MEDICAL PROFESSION. On Sunday, September 26, 1847, Patty assisted in the birth of the first male ...
( Category: Women October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Edmund Metatawabin [Metatawabin, Edmund]

We named her Albalina. It is a name that everyone likes as soon as you say it. I read it in a story in one of those Life magazines, about ...
( Category: First Nations October 16,2014 )