Linguistics
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Morrison

* * * THE CASE OF THE MISSING HAND. .................. I THINK I HAVE RECORDED in another place Hewitt’s frequent aphorism that “there is nothing in this world that is ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Sir Walter]

"It is the badness of his fare that has put him out of humour," said the Countess Isabelle. "Cheer up, Seignior Quentin, and should we ever visit my ancient Castle ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

B.C. 45. Dictator, r.p.c., C. Iulius Caesar III. Magister Equitum, M. Aemilius Lepidus. Coss., C. Iulius Caesar IV., sine collega. Q. Fabius Maximus, mort., C. Caninius Rebilus, C. Trebonius. During ...
( Category: United States March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Henry Fielding [Fielding, Henry]

THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON. DEDICATION TO THE PUBLIC. YOUR candour is desired on the perusal of the following sheets, as they are the product of a genius ...
( Category: Renaissance March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Jean-Luc Fournet;

This text does rather give the impression of being a petition, but it is true that during this period, letters often tended to be contaminated by the rhetoric of petitions, ...
( Category: Egypt March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Lawson

THE BUSH-FIRE .................. I SQUATTER AND SELECTOR Wall was a squatter and a hard man. There had been long years of drought and loss, and then came the rabbit pest—the ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:L. Frank Baum [Unbekannt]

In order to avoid the threatening arms overhead, which followed them as they swam, our friends kept near to the bottom of the sea, which was here thickly covered with ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-15 | Author:Nash, David;

5 Controlling the Profane This chapter attempts to investigate how societies have striven to cope with and control the blasphemer. It investigates the laws and edicts as well as the ...
( Category: History March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1998-03-15 | Author:Kenny, Kevin;

( Category: Organized Crime March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-21 | Author:Constance Fenimore Woolson

“And they say they’ll put me in prison—oh—ow!—an old man, a good old man, a suffering son of humanity like me!” moaned Uncle Pietro. “An old man, a good old ...
( Category: Short Stories March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Fanny Burney

He did not stay long—he did not think it right to leave his waiting friends for any time, nor could I wish it, valued as I know he is by ...
( Category: British & Irish March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-10 | Author:Chester K Steele [Steele, Chester K]

Chapter XIII. Captain Poland Confesses When LeGrand Blossom had taken his departure, carrying with him the books and papers, he left behind two very disconsolate persons. "It's terrible!" exclaimed Mr. ...
( Category: Americas March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:Henry Thayer Niles [Niles, Henry Thayer]

BOOK V. Now mighty Mara, spirit of the air, The prince of darkness, ruling worlds below, Had watched for Buddha all these weary years, Seeking to lead his steady steps ...
( Category: Americas March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Charteris-Black

As an extended metaphor, these images of constraint and entrapment contrast with images of release from confinement:And that open Brexit will unleash this country to go back to its roots ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Willem de Blécourt

6 ‘Species’, ‘Phantasia’, ‘Raison’: Werewolves and Shape-Shifters in Demonological Literature Johannes Dillinger This chapter discusses various concepts of animal transformation in the demonological literature of the late Middle Ages and ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 15,2020 )