Classics
epub |eng | 1891-01-23 | Author:Émile Gaboriau [Gaboriau, Émile]

Chapter 31 Chupin had not taken time to sleep, nor scarcely time to drink, since that unfortunate morning when the Duc de Sairmeuse ordered affixed to the walls of Montaignac, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1917-01-23 | Author:Sinclair Lewis [Lewis, Sinclair]

2 It was hard to leave the kindly Herbert Grays of the flat, but Una made the break and arranged all her silver toilet–articles—which consisted of a plated–silver hair–brush, a ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:James George Frazer [Frazer, James George]

Such, then, appears to have been the annual solemnisation of the death and resurrection of Attis in spring. But besides these public rites, his worship is known to have comprised ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Alexandre Dumas, Pere [Dumas, Alexandre (Pere)]

CHAPTER X The next day a still more extraordinary scene took place. While M. de Laubardemont was questioning one of the nuns, the superior came down into the court, barefooted; ...
( Category: True Crime January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1911-01-23 | Author:B.M. Bower [Bower, B.M.]

Chapter 12 A Lesson in Forgiveness "Well, old-timer, how you coming? You sure do sleep sound—this is the third time I've come to tell you breakfast is ready and then ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Scott

443. Rood. Cross, or crucifix. By the rood was a common oath; so by the holy rood, as in Shakespeare, Rich. III. iii. 2. 77, iv. 4. 165. Cf. the ...
( Category: Poetry January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1907-01-23 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

GIFTS[456] Gifts of one who loved me— 'Twas high time they came; When he ceased to love me, Time they stopped for shame. 1. It is said that the world ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1872-01-23 | Author:Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich]

Chapter 6 Pyotr Stepanovitch Is Busy the date of the fete was definitely fixed, and Von Lembke became more and more depressed. He was full of strange and sinister forebodings, ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1860-01-23 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

CHAPTER XXVII MYTHS After the sculptor’s arrival, however, the young Count sometimes came down from his forlorn elevation, and rambled with him among the neighboring woods and hills. He led ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Gaston Leroux [Leroux, Gaston]

CHAPTER XIV "I Expect the Assassin This Evening" "I must take you," said Rouletabille, "so as to enable you to understand, to the various scenes. I myself believe that I ...
( Category: Mystery January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1917-01-23 | Author:Christopher Morley [Morley, Christopher]

Chapter 9 My feelings were as mixed as a crushed nut sundae. So the Professor hadn't gone to Brooklyn after all! What did he mean by prowling after me like ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1916-01-23 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

THE PRODIGAL FATHER I. But on this morning, before the rush of custom began, his appearance at the store, while it did not cause a riot, was sufficiently startling to ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1900-01-23 | Author:Thomas Anstey Guthrie [Guthrie, Thomas Anstey]

Chapter 12 THE MESSENGER OF HOPE Jessie, the neat and pretty parlour-maid, opened the door with a smile of welcome which Horace found reassuring. No girl, he thought, whose master ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Scott

* * * CHAPTER XVII . Here is a father now, Will truck his daughter for a foreign venture, Make her the stop-gap to some canker'd feud, Or fling her ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1880-01-23 | Author:G. A. Henty [Henty, G. A.]

Chapter 11 THE ISLE OF ATHELNEY Edmund spent a month on his lands, moving about among his vassals and dwelling in their abodes. He inspired them by his words with ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 23,2019 )