Words, Language & Grammar
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Lyman Frank Baum [Baum, Lyman Frank]

7. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil Ak listened gravely to the recital of Claus, stroking his beard the while with the slow, graceful motion that betokened deep thought. ...
( Category: Fantasy October 12,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-02-06 | Author:Lyman Frank Baum [Baum, Lyman Frank]

THE ENCHANTED ISLAND CHAPTER 12 All at once it grew dark around them. Neither Cap'n Bill nor Trot liked this gloom, for it made them nervous not to be able ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar October 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-26 | Author:1913 Desert Gold, by Zane Grey [1913 Desert Gold, by Zane Grey]

XI ACROSS CACTUS AND LAVA BLANCO SOL showed no inclination to bend his head to the alfalfa which swished softly about his legs. Gale felt the horse’s sensitive, almost human ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Mencke, H. L.]

These changes, said Webster, “with a few other inconsiderable alterations, would answer every purpose, and render the orthography sufficiently correct and regular.” They would “diminish the number of letters about ...
( Category: Action & Adventure October 11,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Ben Yagoda [Yagoda, Ben]

CHAPTER VI N. Generally speaking, things once they are named the name does not go on doing anything to them and so why write in nouns. Nouns are the name ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games October 8,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren [Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren]

15 SUGGESTIONS FOR READING STORIES, PLAYS, AND POEMS The parallel rules for reading imaginative literature that were discussed in the last chapter were general ones, applying across the board to ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 8,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:John Bemelmans Marciano

pan·der v. To cynically cater to another’s interests. The character from whom this term originates has a long and varied history on the margins of great literature. In Homer’s Iliad, ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-08-01 | Author:Katherine Mansfield [Mansfield, Katherine]

6. LIFE OF MA PARKER. When the literary gentleman, whose flat old Ma Parker cleaned every Tuesday, opened the door to her that morning, he asked after her grandson. Ma ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:Dick King-Smith

Babe watched every run intently, and Hogget watched Babe, and Fly watched them both. What’s the boss up to, she thought, as they drove home. He’s surely never thinking that ...
( Category: Animals October 8,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:King-Smith, Dick [King-Smith, Dick]

Babe watched every run intently, and Hogget watched Babe, and Fly watched them both. What’s the boss up to, she thought, as they drove home. He’s surely never thinking that ...
( Category: Animals October 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

* * * PART II Our home was one of sorrow and of fear. The child's death had stricken us with terror no less than grief. Referring it, as we ...
( Category: Action & Adventure October 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

* * * THE VISION OF TOM CHUFF At the edge of melancholy Catstean Moor, in the north of England, with half-a-dozen ancient poplar-trees with rugged and hoary stems around, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure October 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

CHAPTER XVII On the Course--Beeswing, Falcon, and Lightning As he rode towards Golden Friars, through which his route lay, in the early morning light, in which the mists of night ...
( Category: Action & Adventure October 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Adeline Yen Mah [Mah, Adeline Yen]

Although Chen’s fame and fortune lasted for barely six months at the end of his life, his name became legendary and his exploits emerged as a major influence after his ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 8,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Baroness Emmuska Orczy

"Mr. Ireland was the manager then; it was less than six months ago. He lived over the bank, with his wife and family, consisting of a son, who was clerk ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar October 8,2017 )