Search results for "illustrated"
epub |eng | 2017-11-17 | Author:Ouida [OUIDA]

XI Adone’s sight was troubled as soon as he passed out of the dusky room into the blaze of noonday sunshine. His eyes seemed filled with blood. His brain was ...
( Category: other February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-09 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell [GASKELL, ELIZABETH]

CHAPTER VII. The next day Mr. Henry came. He was a quiet, stern-looking man, of considerable intelligence and refinement, and so much taste for music as to charm Erminia, who ...
( Category: Family Life February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-23 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN]

HOW THE BRIGADIER PLAYED FOR A KINGDOM It has sometimes struck me that some of you, when you have heard me tell these little adventures of mine, may have gone ...
( Category: Short Stories February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-17 | Author:Herman Melville [MELVILLE, HERMAN]

Chapter 18 After the mysterious interview in the fore-chains--the one so abruptly ended there by Billy--nothing especially german to the story occurred until the events now about to be narrated. ...
( Category: Classics February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-25 | Author:Immanuel Kant [KANT, IMMANUEL]

The rational origin, however, of this perversion of our elective will in respect of the way in which it adopts subordinate springs into its maxims as supreme, i. e. the ...
( Category: other February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-25 | Author:J. M. Barrie [BARRIE, J. M.]

CHAPTER XXI THE LAST JACOBITE RISING On the evening of the Queen’s birthday, bridies were eaten to her honor in a hundred Thrums homes, and her health was drunk in ...
( Category: other February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-12 | Author:Edith Wharton [WHARTON, EDITH]

VI The next morning at breakfast Jotham Powell was between them, and Ethan tried to hide his joy under an air of exaggerated indifference, lounging back in his chair to ...
( Category: Classics February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-12 | 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: Genre Fiction February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-22 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [SCOTT, SIR WALTER]

CHAPTER XVIII. A purple land, where law secures not life. BYRON. The morning of Ash Wednesday arose pale and bleak, as usual at this season in Scotland, where the worst ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-10 | Author:L. Frank Baum [BAUM, L. FRANK]

Rosalie the Witch TROT and Button-Bright had now become worried and anxious, for they knew if they were tossed over the edge of the island they would be killed. Cap’n ...
( Category: Classics February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-23 | Author:Wilkie Collins [COLLINS, WILKIE]

BROTHER GRIFFITH’S STORY of THE BITER BIT. Extracted from the Correspondence of the London Police. FROM CHIEF INSPECTOR THEAKSTONE, OF THE DETECTIVE POLICE, TO SERGEANT BULMER, OF THE SAME FORCE. ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-12 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [KIPLING, RUDYARD]

ON THE CITY WALL Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the town-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. — Joshua ...
( Category: Anthologies February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-23 | Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe [STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER]

It will be observed here that our dear Lillie did not want for perspicacity. There is nothing so absolutely clear-sighted, in certain directions, as selfishness. Entire want of sympathy with ...
( Category: other February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:John Buchan [BUCHAN, JOHN]

He came at me with his sword in a great heat. In an instant we crossed swords and fell to; I with the sun in my eyes and on the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-22 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [DUMAS, ALEXANDRE]

CHAPTER XXXV. THE DOUBLE CASTLE. SAMUEL bolted the doors, then returned to Julius. “Now then!” said he, “I hope that you are not going to express surprise like your wife ...
( Category: Literary February 10,2023 )