Linguistics Reference
mobi |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:John Keats

He met within the murmurous vestibule His young disciple. "'Tis no common rule, Lycius," said he, "for uninvited guest To force himself upon you, and infest With an unbidden presence ...
( Category: British & Irish September 3,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Henry James

* * * BOOK THIRD * * * XXXV The August night had gathered by the time Basil Ransom, having finished his supper, stepped out upon the piazza of the ...
( Category: World July 23,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:George MacDonald

Chapter XXI Sal's Nanny DIAMOND managed with many blunders to read this rhyme to his mother. "Isn't it nice, mother?" he said. "Yes, it's pretty," she answered. "I think it ...
( Category: Anthologies July 19,2014 )
epub | | 2010-02-14 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

Chapter 4 The farther the group progressed, the more barbaric and the more sumptuous became the decorations. Hides of leopard and tiger predominated, apparently because of their more beautiful markings, ...
( Category: Adventure May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1963-05-12 | Author:Euripides

The gold is useless to you; you have lost your sons; And you are blind. – Agamemnon, if you help this man, You help an impious, perjured, and polluted traitor, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Patricia T. O'Conner

An I for an I Hugh Downs, who often wraps up 20/20 broadcasts by saying, "Good night from Barbara and me," has gotten indignant letters from viewers who think, mistakenly, ...
( Category: Linguistics Reference May 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 1916-04-29 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE When children are playing alone on the green, In comes the playmate that never was seen. When children are happy and lonely and good, The Friend of ...
( Category: Literary Criticism & Collections April 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

C.1. Cyrus' generosity: he is not cold, not incapable of soft pleasure, but too pre-occupied with greater things. On the whole, if a hedonist, this type of man, a hedonist ...
( Category: Greece April 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Xenophon & Robin Waterfield & Tim Rood [Xenophon & Waterfield, Robin & Rood, Tim]

BOOK FIVE [1] After the games, there was a meeting to plan the rest of their journey. The first to get to his feet was Leon of Thurii. ‘Speaking for ...
( Category: Greece April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Francis Grose [Francis Grose]

K Kate A picklock. ‘’Tis a rum kate’, it is a clever picklock. Keel bullies Men employed to load and unload the coal vessels. Keelhauling A punishment in use among ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms April 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-05-30 | Author:Frederic M. Wheelock & Richard A. Lafleur

QVAESTIŌNĒS: Identify the polysyndeton and comment on its effect (if you don’t recall the term, see “Pretty Is” in the last chapter). Explain Gemellus’ interest in Maronilla (if you can’t, ...
( Category: Instruction March 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-05-18 | Author:Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch [Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir]

( Category: Classics March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * BOOK THIRD * * * XXXV The August night had gathered by the time Basil Ransom, having finished his supper, stepped out upon the piazza of the ...
( Category: World March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:Henry James

* * * VIII That sense of quantities, separate or mixed, was indeed doubtless what most prevailed at first for our slightly gasping American pair; it found utterance for them ...
( Category: Americas March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Defoe

When the boxes were opened, I found they were chiefly full of books, and papers, and parchments, I mean books of accounts, and writings, and such things as were in ...
( Category: Christian Historical Fiction March 27,2014 )