Words, Language & Grammar
epub |eng | 2009-04-29 | Author:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn]

* * * LIBBIE MARSH'S THREE ERAS. ERA I. VALENTINE'S DAY. Last November but one, there was a flitting in our neighbourhood; hardly a flitting, after all, for it was ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-01 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

Chapter XVII. "The morning air blows fresh on him; The waves dance gladly in his sight; The sea-birds call, and wheel, and skim-- O, blessed morning light!" Dana. The very ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-24 | Author:Ford Madox Ford [Ford, Ford Madox]

* * * IV But it was with Throckmorton that the real pull of the rope came. Henry was by then so full of love for her that, save when ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-01 | Author:Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)]

Because it always seems to be his Day. There is no sense of happy medium about the hero of the popular novel. He cannot get astride a horse without its ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-01 | Author:Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)]

STORY THE FIFTH—Joey Loveredge agrees—on certain terms—to join the Company The most popular member of the Autolycus Club was undoubtedly Joseph Loveredge. Small, chubby, clean-shaven, his somewhat longish, soft, brown ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

* * * CHAPTER V. THE THREE AMERICAN NOVELS. The prospect of official station and emolument which Hawthorne mentions in one of those paragraphs from his Journals which I have ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-19 | Author:graf Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo, graf]

* * * CHAPTER XLVIII. Rising the next morning Nekhludoff recalled the events of the previous day and was seized with fear. But, notwithstanding this fear, he was even more ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-03-01 | Author:O. Henry [Henry, O.]

Letter to whom it may concern This and the following letter were the credentials that the boy Will Porter brought along from North Carolina to Texas. Letter—a young man of ...
( Category: Action & Adventure December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:A. Conan Doyle [Doyle, A. Conan]

* * * As Professor Ainslie Grey ascended the steps of his house, the hall-door opened and a dapper gentleman stepped briskly out. He was somewhat sallow in the face, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-12 | Author:A. Conan Doyle [Doyle, A. Conan]

11.20 P.M.—Captain just gone to bed after a long and interesting conversation on general topics. When he chooses he can be a most fascinating companion, being remarkably well-read, and having ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-04 | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich]

III A railway was being built in our district. On holidays and thereabouts the town was filled with crowds of ragamuffins called "railies," of whom the people were afraid. I ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-08-01 | Author:George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith [Grossmith, George]

CHAPTER XIV Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two good jokes. I get an enormous rise in my salary. Lupin speculates successfully and starts ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-02 | Author:Stephen Crane & Robert Barr [Crane, Stephen]

* * * CHAPTER XXII C hord ambled back, very proud indeed, and still wearing his fatuous smile. He was bursting with a sense of social value, and to everybody ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-29 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

General Feraud, totally unable as is the case with most men to comprehend what was happening to him, received the Minister of War's order to proceed at once to a ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )