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A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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...lish and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.h... ...m Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fic... ...fencelessness to con my victims. It may prove unhealthy to lose our sponsors' money. These people are charm itself and sheer delight – until you bre... ...raved ring of golden imitation. The bus exudes the steamy vapours of a mobile rain forest. People cram into the passages, dragging nylon-roped shopp... ... and am reminded of my past. A light ray meanders diagonally across the carpet. The air is Flemish. The fitting light, the shades, the atmosphere. ... ...le, the single chair, my scattered clothing, the metered rotary dial phone, the French and German television channels I cannot understand. Once wee... ... gleaming swimming pool and said: "Let's go down, I am worn out." The children awaited our descent and cried at Uzi, who ignored them. He only hast... ...up and three loaves of bread when she came back from work at the shop owned by the Yekkes (German-Jews) whom she admired. When I was born, the radi...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...orth, and discovered the northern coast of Spain, France, England, Holland and Germany. It is also believed that he proceeded as far north as Iceland.... ...anding, as related by the Sagas, is to the effect that among the company was a German named Tyrker, who being the most impetuous of the crew, was not ... ...ecipices high enough to prevent any attempt at scaling, and so abrupt in their descent, that for many miles not even the smallest wherry can find a sh... ...ck, Mansvelt sailed up the coast seeking for a proper point on which to make a descent, but everywhere the inhabitants were on their guard and present... ...el, departed again for England. While enroute, on the 3d of September he met a Flemish hulk from Lisbon, which informed him of the defeat of the Spani...

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...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most intere...

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...ation The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...igin of the whole story was probably Freytag’s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dream... ...decided that such a catastrophe could hardly have happened anywhere but in Germany, or in Scotland; and the contrast between the cultivation in the fr... ...f assassination, of poison, in single combat, or in battle; tumults of the people beset him; he is imprisoned as at Ghent. But finally Neidelhard is b... ...eneral belief that Freiherren lived there to do what they chose with other people, and that the House of Adlerstein was the freest and noblest in exis... ...hed at the shoulder, and thence the whole length grazed and wounded by the descent of the sword down to the wrist. So tender was her touch, that he sc... ...urned to discuss with the guildmasters the interruption to trade caused by Flemish jealousies. After the lengthy meal, the tables were removed, the lo... ...living among mountains does for a lad. Why could not those thrice-accursed Flemish towns let me breed up my boy to be good for something in the mounta...

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...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the sh...

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...blication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...imes, the only recreation-ground of the ladies and play-place of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not... ... face of north- ern nature, and it was hardly to be wondered at that young people, inheritors of the cultivated instincts of James I. and of the Plant... ... the Duchess, but the Duke was certainly noblest by birth, having a double descent from King Ed- ward, and in the male line. ‘W as not his father put ... ...stinguish 78 Two Penniless Princesses nothing but ‘Ringan! Geordie! goose—Flemish hounds.’ Riding between, regardless of the stones, he shouted in th... ... sister could speak ‘French of Paris,’ the others used a dialect so nearly German that Lady Suffolk could barely understand them, and the other ladies... ...’s, while Margaret took Eleanor’s, and said in her ear, ‘The great awkward German! He is come here to pay his court to Yolande, but she will none of h... ...hould be the fat lazy Alsatians, who were good for nothing but to ride big Flemish horses, and were useless on a mountain. Gebhardt and Robert Douglas...

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...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... and entertaining as its matter permits, because I want it read by as many people as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to... ...ph entertainment is the one to grasp. There will be an effect of these two people going to and fro in front of the circle of a rather defective lanter... ...a Rip-Van-Winkle fancy we have entertained, all the unfamiliarities of our descent from the mountain pass gather together into one fullness of convict... ...Rather would I be Metchnikoffed* at once and have a clean, good stomach of German silver. No! If we are to have no ale in Utopia, give me the one clea... ...ts avenues on either side, ran in a bold curve, and with one great loop of descent, down the opposite side of the valley, and below crossed again on a... ...nny, and the Englishman or American looked at the papers of a Russian or a German as one might look at the chains of a slave. You imagine that father ... ...on which rather admires that inconvenient and gawky muddle of ironwork and Flemish architecture, the London T ower Bridge. When before this, temerario...

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...s Series Publication Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...s the emperors went South, or came home again from rosy Italy to their own Germany. And how much has that old imperial vanity clung to the German soul... ...ow much has that old imperial vanity clung to the German soul? Did not the German kings inherit the empire of bygone Rome? It was not a very real empi... ...spective and self-conscious. But still they are genuine expressions of the people’s soul. Often one can distinguish the work of a particular artist he... ...the under-shadow were looking at me. I was of another element. The Italian people are called ‘Children of the Sun’. They might better be called ‘Child... ...ll why I hate the village magistrate. He looks like a family portrait by a Flemish artist, he himself weigh- ing down the front of the picture with hi... ...in the moun- tains running down from this shallow pot among the peaks. The descent on the south side is much more precipitous and wonderful than the a... ...s tired, more tired than I was. And his big boots had hurt his feet in the descent. So, having come to the open valley-head, we went more gently. He h...

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...Housewives of Lowenburg, and St. Stephen’s Crown, to Freytag’s Sketches of German Life; and for the story of George the Triller, to Mr. Mayhew’s Germa... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...is XV . of France had taken the part of Austria, and had sent an army into Germany in the autumn of 1760. From this the Mar- quis de Castries had been... ...ho held this opinion was Brythnoth, Earl of Essex. He was of partly Danish descent himself, but had become a thorough Englishman, and had long and fai... ... sell corn and meat, and hay for the horses; and the English merchants and Flemish weavers would come by sea and by land to bring cloth, bread, weapon... ...re the terror of every unarmed ship that sailed in those waters, and whose descents upon the coasts of Spain, France, and Italy rendered life and prop...

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...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...at distinctive article of his attire. At the same time, for these friendly people about him to share the fun of the annoyance, he looked hastily brigh... ...s recent mishap. But, in fact, a thing had occurred to vex him more than a descent upon the pavement or damage to his waistcoat’s whiteness: he abomin... ... the roar of cries and stilled it, by capping the cries in turn, until the people cheered him; and the effect of the scene upon Victor Radnor disposed... ...ed Scotchmen as well, and Ameri- cans, and Armenians, and Greeks: latterly Germans hardly less; but his dread of absorption in Jewry, signifying subje... ...ve proximity of the National Gallery 36 One of Our Conquerors than to the Flemish mouldings of cloud-forms under Vene- tian brushes. His purchases of... ...ctor had known his purse to leap for a Raphael with a history in stages of descent from the Master, and critics to swarm: a Raphael of the deal- ers, ... ... smoked: Mr. Peridon traced mortal evil to that act. Dr. Schlesien had his German views, Colney Durance his ironic, Fenellan his fanciful and free-lan...

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...ics Series Publication The Professor by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...thematics.” “Stuff! I dare say you have.” “I can read and write French and German.” “Hum!” He reflected a moment, then opening a drawer in a desk near... ...d gave it to me. “Can you read that?” he asked. 16 The Professor It was a German commercial letter; I translated it; I could not tell whether he was ... ...; I hate your aristocrats.” “Y ou think, then, Mr. Hunsden, that patrician descent may 22 The Professor be read in a distinctive cast of form and fea... ...of respect to the peerage, oppose at every step the advancing power of the people, support your rotten order, and be ready for its sake to wade knee-d... ...y it if you dare.” “Oh, I shall not deny it! And if Hunsden hounded on the people to hiss you, he did quite right. You deserve popular execration; for... ...kirting the horizon; narrow canals, gliding slow by the road-side; painted Flemish farmhouses; some very dirty hovels; a gray, dead sky; wet road, wet... ...did the lofty hall into which they conducted. On the first landing I met a Flemish housemaid: she had wooden shoes, a short red petticoat, a printed c...

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...ormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...u by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... dreaming, my friend.” “I am not dreaming, my beautiful white doe. Listen. People should always do what their position in life demands. Gov- ernment h... ...l store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the la... ...offering him at the same time that engraving which I have at last found in Germany, after two years’ search. He is now engaged in analyzing hair: Chif... ...is hair, of a tint like hair that has been dyed black, indicated a mongrel descent, through which he derived his mental qualities from some libertine ... ...the return of the Bourbons and anxious to stand well at court, had gone to Germany and bought up all the debts contracted by the princes during the em... ...glish lady, nor of a French duchess, but the round and glowing beauty of a Flemish Rubens. Cesarine had the turned-up nose of her father, but it was p...

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... and which I hope will equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immo...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publi... ...s) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...eater degree than those of other domiciles, the characteristics of the old Flemish buildings, so naively adapted to the patriar- chal manners and cust... ...most impossible not to feel a certain tender sensibility over a picture of Flemish life, if the accessories are clearly given. Why so? Perhaps, among ... ...se perfect quiet charms superior men. The life of this essentially thrifty people amply fulfils the conditions of happiness which the masses desire as... ...of Burgundy, Spain, and France, and threw it into fraternal relations with Germany and Holland. From Spain it acquired the luxury of scarlet dyes and ... ...twithstanding the parcelling out of their territory, the Flemings became a people homogeneous through their pipes and beer.* After assimilating, by co... ...st aside the ragged robes of his Spanish nobility for his more illustrious descent from the Ghent martyr. The patriotic sentiment was so strongly deve... ...was covered by a round cap with crimped borders, which made it look like a German nut- cracker, cast a sour look at Lemulquinier, which the greenish t...

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... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ... Millennium, while any of the uncomfortable su- perstitions I have glanced at remain in existence. CHAPTER VII TRAVELLING ABROAD I GOT INTO the trave... ...he postilions Charles Dickens 62 counting what money they got, into their hats, and never making enough of it; there were the standard population of ... ...emed to be that the former were locomotive and the latter not): my back windows looking at all the other back windows in the hotel, and deep down into... ...istol and his brood, and of the quiet mon- sters of the Yard, with their ‘We don’t particularly want to do it; but if it must be done—!’ Scrunch. CHAP... ...ust be done—!’ Scrunch. CHAPTER XXVII IN THE FRENCH-FLEMISH COUNTRY ‘IT IS NEITHER A BOLD nor a diversified country,’ said I to myself, ‘this country ...

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stev... ... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...t certainly become, the tongue of the Pacific. I will instance a few examples. I met in Majuro a Marshall Island boy who spoke excellent English; this... ...e woman was a savage, said they, and spoke no language. ‘Mais, vous savez,’ objected the fair sentimentalist; ‘Ils apprennent si vite l’Anglais!’ But ... ...t only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua, when each individual vowel must be separately uttered. These points of similari... ... early opportunity to explain his situation. True, he was only an appointed chief when I beheld him; but somewhere else, perhaps upon some other isle,... ...see a building so antique still bright with novelty. The architect, a French lay brother, still alive and well, and meditating fresh foundations, must... ...n Mercator’s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handful of whites of varying nationality, mo... ...t heat; it was already sultry, the court- iers were already fuddled; and still the kummel continued 168 In The South Seas to go round, and the crown ...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

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...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......

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... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...the further view of Etruria and Hanley had dropped out of sight with their descent. Before them, by the stile, rose a notice-board, bearing, still dim... ...Plattner began to clamber down the precipitous de- scent towards them. The descent was long and exceedingly tedious, being so not only by the extraord... ...he almost spat it out again, then merely hot and full-flavoured: a kind of German mustard with a touch of horse-radish and—well, mushroom. He swallowe... ...ern end of the Upper Sandgate Road so interesting. His is the one with the Flemish gables and the Moorish por- tico, and it is in the little room with...

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...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...re a noble family of Gascony, and took 14 V anity Fair great pride in her descent from them. And curious it is that as she advanced in life this youn... ...t Miss Pinkerton’s academy “The very name,” George said. “Her father was a German Jew—a slave-owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity ... ...y drank, but paid his score; and Donald, the High- lander, billeted in the Flemish farm-house, rocked the baby’s cradle, while Jean and Jeannette were... ... his happiness complete. He sate on the roof of the cabin all day drinking Flemish beer, shouting for Isidor, his servant, and talking gallantly to th... ...y handle them. To use a cue at billiards well is like using a pencil, or a German flute, or a small-sword—you cannot master any one of these implement...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men a...

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... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Thr... ... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...rior we will give the reader an idea if he will with us follow the cavalcade to the majestic porch of the castle of the states. Monsieur rode a little... ...wered Haarlem tapestry; in the center of this table was a long-necked stone bottle, in which were irises and lilies of the valley; at each end of this... ...mte de Bragelonne.” “Ah, very well! Introduce him, Saint-Remy — introduce him.” And when he had let fall these words, with his accus- tomed gravity, M... ...here was no necessity to consult anything but his hands, long, slender, and white, of which every muscle, ev- ery vein, became apparent through the sk... ...er, and you have, in the eyes of France, the responsibility of peace and war. But that you should pretend to prevent me, who am king, from extending m... ...kness; it was a capital time to land passengers and merchandise. The road of Scheveningen forms a vast crescent; it is not very deep and not very safe... ...disdainfully, “a million! What will your majesty do with a million?” “It appears to me, nevertheless —— “ said Louis XIV . “That is not more than is s...

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...eries Publication Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...f those whom mor- tals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is ‘The People of the Hills’. This Puck, by means of the magic of Oak, Ash, and Tho... ...s and in the country about, they saw and talked to some rather interesting people. One of these, for instance, was a Knight of the Norman Conquest, an... ... passages, and at last thrusts me into a little cold room vilely hung with Flemish tapestries, and no furnishing except a table and my draft of the So... ...and how the badger-eyed figures of Glory and Victory leered at me from the Flemish hangings. Body o’ me, ’twas a fine, noble tale, and, as I thought, ... ...aid Puck, laughing. ‘Be one thing or t’other, Pharaoh—French or English or German—no great odds which.’ ‘Oh, but it is, though,’ said Una quickly. ‘We... ...dds which.’ ‘Oh, but it is, though,’ said Una quickly. ‘We haven’t be- gun German yet, and—and we’re going back to our French next week.’ ‘ Aren’t you... ...r, and became one of my best and most refreshing friends. He was a Meon by descent, from the west edge of the kingdom; a scholar educated, curiously e...