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

‘“Tant” and “trop” are the spoilers of our existence,’ she replied. ‘I remember as a child I never cared for bonbons; I used to say that if they hung up ...
( Category: Classics February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-26 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [THOREAU, HENRY DAVID]

Squaw Mountain, Moosehead Lake After breakfast I emptied the melted pork that was left into the lake, making what sailors call a “slick,” and watching to see how much it ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-12 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [KIPLING, RUDYARD]

XIII Beat off in our last fight were we? The greater need to seek the sea; For Fortune changeth as the moon To caravel and picaroon. Then, Eastward Ho! or ...
( Category: British & Irish February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-17 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [DUMAS, ALEXANDRE]

CHAPTER XII WHEN night arrived, Paul also girded up his loins, made fast his sandals, took his staff, and then turned to Acté, who was quite ready, and still determined ...
( Category: French February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-25 | Author:Voltaire [VOLTAIRE]

XIX. WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN. Our travellers spent the first day very agreeably. They were delighted with possessing more treasure than ...
( Category: Satire February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-23 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN]

Series Five Algernon Blackwood Anatole France Beaumont and Fletcher Charles Darwin Edward Bulwer-Lytton Edward Gibbon E. F. Benson Frances Hodgson Burnett Friedrich Nietzsche George Bernard Shaw George MacDonald Hilaire Belloc ...
( Category: other February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-10 | Author:H. Rider Haggard [HAGGARD, H. RIDER]

CHAPTER XV PETER PLAYS A PART “Stop,” said Peter from the shadow of the doorway, “I fear this business, Inez, and I do not understand why it is needful. Why ...
( Category: Anthologies & Short Stories February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-17 | Author:Ouida [OUIDA]

CHAPTER XXI. CIGARETTE EN CONDOTTIERA. Cigarette always went fast. She had a bird-like way of skimming her ground that took her over it with wonderful swiftness; all the tassels, and ...
( Category: other February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Jim Thompson [Thompson, Jim]

Chapter Twelve Even standing in the shadows, and at the distance I was from him, he looked pale. He was just about the scaredest-looking man, white or Indian, I’d ever ...
( Category: Noir February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-17 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [DUMAS, ALEXANDRE]

CHAPTER VII. A WEEK after the events we related in our last chapter, and just as Adolf of Cleves was about to rise from table, it was announced that a ...
( Category: World February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-22 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [SCOTT, SIR WALTER]

CHAPTER XXV The course of human life is changeful still, As is the fickle wind and wandering rill; Or, like the light dance which the wild-breeze weaves Amidst the fated ...
( Category: other February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-26 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [THOREAU, HENRY DAVID]

VIII. THE HIGHLAND LIGHT This light-house, known to mariners as the Cape Cod or Highland Light, is one of our “primary sea-coast lights,” and is usually the first seen by ...
( Category: Philosophy February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE]

CHAPTER XVI. “And yet it is said — Labor in thy vocation; which is as much as to say — let the magistrates be laboring men; and therefore should we ...
( Category: Classics February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-23 | Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe [STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER]

CHAPTER XIX. SUMMER DAYS IN POGANUC. SO passed Dolly’s Fourth of July; a confused dream of glory and patriotism, of wonderful sights and surprises — but, like a dream, it ...
( Category: other February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-25 | Author:J. M. Barrie [BARRIE, J. M.]

CHAPTER V On the following Tuesday Andrew met the president by appointment at the Marble Arch. Until he had received his final instructions he was pledged not to begin, and ...
( Category: British & Irish February 10,2023 )