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...culed by H.L. Mencken. She had always chafed at living in Butte, which was a small mining town, and used the money from sales of this book to move to Greenwich Village where she continued to write books and newspaper articles. Some critics have suggested that even by today's standards, MacLane's writing is raw, honest, unflinching, self-aware, sensual and extreme. She wrot...

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...T! Compiled by the publisher. NEW YORK: M. YOUNG, PUBLISHER, 173 GREENWICH STREET. ACT IV. A Cavern. In the Middle, a Boiling Cauld... ...FROM A GERMAN AUTHOR. In my younger days, there was a dinner given in the village of Floremburgh, Westphalia, where I was born, on the occasio... ...nced on funeral more, he should be deprived of his place, and expelled from the village. This availed – the gravedigger was silent from that time fo... ...edges. Some weeks after a strong body of Austrian troops passed through the village on their way to the Netherlands. While resting there a day, ... ...the snow fell nearly three feet deep. At the same time, a woman died in another village of the same parish. The military took away all the horses ou... ...gyman, and the schoolmaster with his scholars, proceeded to the entrance of the village to meet the corpse; and, as the funeral came along the mead...

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...nimals of impossible creation -- A fight with Patagonians and burning of their village - - How the natives cure the stomach ache 242- 251 CHAPTER XXII... ...ves -- A burning corncrib -- Disappointment following the capture of an Indian village -- A terrible storm -- In sight of Panama -- A foot race for th... ...ions for the crew -- Meeting with a pigmy race of Indians -- Visit to a Fuegan village -- Driven out to sea and loss of the Marigold -- A discouraged ... ...- Drake is crowned King of California -- Descriptions of the Indians and their villages 358- 366 CHAPTER XXXIV. A voyage to the East Indies. -- Aband... ... -- Cavendish is appointed to the command -- Capture and plunder of an African village -- Drake on the coast of Patagonia -- Discovery of the skeleton... ...stowed upon him, he was made post-captain, and appointed to the command of the Greenwich hospital. Six months afterwards he was chosen a member of the...

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...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the ...

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...HER FAMIL Y CIRCLE. IN A CERTAIN QUIET and sequestered nook of the retired village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at ... ...de-Cologne and hair-combs from the perfumer—some opera tickets, a treat to Greenwich, and a piece of real Genoa velvet for a bonnet (it had originally...

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...radius, sir. The boy delivers telegrams directly to this door from Pardons village.” “One has to take a good deal on trust in this country,” he murmur... ...ding to business, wakes de- sire in a man; and the telegraph office at the village of Fri- ars Pardon, where they sold picture post-cards and pegtops,... ...d this has been rather a shock to you.” Sophie nodded, and fled toward the village. Her body failed her for a moment; she dropped beneath a hedge, and... ...eisurely lunch, where talk came and went in low-voiced eddies that had the village for their centre. Sophie heard the vicar and Sir Walter address her... ...27 Kipling ies with a two-paged discourse on patriotism, the leaflets of a Village Improvement Society, of which she was president, and a demand for a... ....p. and weight. We fit and test free to 40 east of Greenwich Village L. & W. POWELL 196 Victoria ...

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...gusts of wind. It was in latitude 40 south, and nearly in the longitude of Greenwich, as far as I can remember, that these quiet rites of Almayer’s an... ...d providing there were no heavy drifts in the long stretch between certain villages whose names came with an extremely familiar sound to my ears. He t... ...ining a bestarred sky, surged up black shapes, the clumps of trees about a village of the Ukrainian plain. A cottage or two glided by, a low intermina... ...ndred yards of the chair on which I sat stood the first peasant hut of the village—part of my maternal grandfather’s estate, the only part remaining i... ...part remaining in the possession of a member of the family; and beyond the village in the limit- less blackness of a winter’s night there lay the grea... ...mber nestling in the hollows. The road by which I had come ran through the village with a turn just outside the gates closing the short drive. Somebod...

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...d. It had known the ships and the men. They had sailed from Deptford, from Greenwich, from Erith—the adventurers and the set- tlers; kings’ ships and ... ...in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to ham- mer the chief of the village with a stick. Oh, it didn’t sur- prise me in the least to hear this... ... there. The supernatural being had not been touched after he fell. And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the f... ...here the dwellings were gone too. Still I passed through several abandoned villages. There’s something pathetically childish in the ruins of grass wal... ...ory was they were to buy their provisions with that currency in river-side villages. You can see how that worked. There were either no villages, or th... ...xploring or what?’ I asked. ‘Oh yes, of course;’ he had discovered lots of villages, a lake too—he did not know exactly in what direction; it was dang...

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...ian of a miller is actually causing this garment to be carried through the village and cried by the town-crier. And we blush to be obliged to say that... ...h homely land- scapes, and renders them with great delicacy and taste. Old villages, farm-yards, groups of stacks, queer chimneys, churches, gable-end... ...ing! They hang about the purlieus of the me- tropolis: Brook Green, Epsom, Greenwich, Ascot, Goodwood, are their haunts. They visit London professiona... ...orge Cruikshank score we may speak as well as another. Then there are the “Greenwich Hospital” designs, which must not be passed over. “Greenwich Hosp...

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...f their young captain; and, outlaws as they were, they spoiled no peaceful villages, they lifted not their hands against the persecuting monarch, and ... ... shall fight in the shade.’ T wo of the 300 had been sent to a neighboring village, suffering severely from 35 Yo n g e a complaint in the eyes. One ... ...el dam- age among these peaceful scenes; they boasted of having sacked 300 villages, and mercy was not yet known to them. The Carthaginian army, thoug... ...d apostate Jews against 65 Yo n g e them. They used to come down into the villages, remind the people of the law, promise their help, and throw down ... ...y had no bread at all, and lived only on the cattle driven in from distant villages, while V ercingetorix hovered round, cutting off their supplies. T... ...ven months’ patience in his captivity, the Danish chiefs, who were then at Greenwich desired him to be brought into their camp, where they had just be...

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...s followed him. They called him their war-chief. He was the ruler of three villages on a narrow plain; the master of an insignificant foothold on the ... ...orrent wound about like a dropped thread. Clumps of fruit-trees marked the villages; slim palms put their nodding heads together above the low houses;... ..., as if at white heat. Nothing moved on the land. The beach was empty, the villages seemed deserted; the trees far off stood in unstirring clumps, as ... ... spoken by the camp-fires, in the shared solitude of the sea, in riverside villages, in resting-places sur- rounded by forests—words are spoken that t... ... of protec- tion and peace. We answered with caution and wis- dom, for our villages were burnt, our stockades weak, the people weary, and the weapons ... ... beat of the two ship’s chronometers tick- ing off steadily the seconds of Greenwich Time seemed to me a protection and a relief. Karain stared stonil...

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...black shadow at midday. It was a mile and a half from the end house of the village, and its loneliness was very doubtfully relieved by an ambiguous fa... ..., and spoke in a confidential manner, and one sad eye regarded the distant village, and one was bright and wicked. “Got to be meathured every blethed ... ...his farm. It was three miles and a half alto- gether, through the park and villages and then along the green glades of the Hickleybrow preserves. The ... ... rumours of the great chicken Mr. Skinner was producing had been about the village for some weeks. “Lor!” she cried, “it’s what I expected.” She seems... ... at once. Almost simultaneously Mr. Skelmersdale himself appeared down the village, gripping a watering-pot by the spout, and very white in the face. ... ...ting “Hi!” at him should stay his course. He came on down by Rochester and Greenwich towards an ever-thick- ening aggregation of houses, walking rathe...

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...ssible. With this intention, we were now shaping our course for Hytyhoo, a village on the island of St. Christina—one of the Marquesas, and so named b... ... the contrary; it stood stock-still; and by that means, no doubt, the true Greenwich time—at the pe- riod of stopping, at least—was preserved to a sec... ... spread, we held on our way, until, with the doctor’s glass, Papeetee, the village me- tropolis of T ahiti, came into view. Several ships were descrie... ..., they were all massacred but Viner, who, at the time, was in an adjoining village. After staying on the island more than two years, he finally escape... ...ntrance is a break in the 85 Melville barrier directly facing the bay and village of Papeetee. It is very narrow; and from the baffling winds, curren... ...im. CHAPTER XXVII. A GLANCE AT PAPEETEE—WE ARE SENT ABOARD THE FRIGATE THE VILLAGE OF PAPEETEE struck us all very pleasantly. Lying in a semicircle ro... ...ecious day of their lives all round, getting about that much in advance of Greenwich time. For this reason, vessels com- ing round Cape Horn—as they m...

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...long wakening streets, it was shouted down the frost-stilled ways of quiet villages; men who had read these things from the throbbing tape stood in ye... ...lined to persecute the ob- durate fearful. That night, at seven-fifteen by Greenwich time, the star would be at its nearest to Jupiter. Then the world... ..., showed with pitiless brilliance the wide and populous country; towns and villages with their pagodas and trees, roads, wide cultivated fields, milli... ...de, ran hither and thither in an orderly manner. The houses of the central village were quite unlike the casual and higgledy-piggledy agglomeration of... ...uite unlike the casual and higgledy-piggledy agglomeration of the mountain villages he knew; they stood in a continuous row on either side of a centra... ..., as if taking a siesta, in the remoter part of the meadow, and nearer the village a number of recumbent children, and then nearer at hand three men c...

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...ould go: till, faint and tired, and not getting any relief, the houses and villages on the road refusing to admit them to lodge whether infected or no... ... any- where, to creep into a bush or hedge and die. The inhabitants of the villages adjacent would, in pity , carry them food and set it at a distance... ...ate; all dead or sick. Here are very few families in this part, or in that village’ (point- ing at Poplar), ‘where half of them are not dead already, ... ... is so infected, it is dangerous so much as to speak with anybody, for the village’, said I, ‘is, as it were, the begin- ning of London, though it be ... ...right; I do not buy provisions for them here. I row up to 97 Daniel Defoe Greenwich and buy fresh meat there, and sometimes I row down the river to W... ...er bestowed. I then asked the poor man if the distemper had not reached to Greenwich. He said it had not till about a fortnight be- fore; but that the... ...ose had done. He told me yes, all the way up from the point, right against Greenwich, to within the shore of Limehouse and Redriff, all the ships that... ...ht to see how the ships lay up the Pool. When he said he was going over to Greenwich as soon as the tide began to come in, I asked if he would let me ... ...nd Redriff, and Ratdiff, and Limehouse, and Poplar, in short, Deptford and Greenwich, all both sides of the river from the Hermitage, and from over ag...

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...s, and then a great pale space of moonlight and the clumsy outlines of the village well. The clustering village itself slept in darkness beyond the ma... ...this was the encampment of newly-come invaders, were it not for the larger villages that are overgrown with thickets and altogether swallowed up again... ...w, and another answer—jungle fowl these must be, because there could be no village within ear- shot—and then far away and bringing back memories of te... ...en examined enough. Now he must be entertained. She told stories about the village people in her brightest manner. The third story she regretted as so... ...n as she was fairly launched upon it; it was how she had inter- viewed the village dressmaker, when Sir Godfrey insisted upon her supporting local ind... ...of Hampton Court past the whole spectacle of London out to the shipping at Greenwich and the towed liners, the inces- sant tugs, the heaving portals o...

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...owd of natives and strangers who were sojourn- ing at this once straggling village—now, thanks to the enter- prise of M. Lesseps, a fast-growing town.... ...a with cold indifference; did not care to recognise the historic towns and villages which, along its borders, raised their picturesque outlines agains... ...er the flat, well-cultivated country of the Khandeish, with its straggling villages, above which rose the minarets of the pagodas. This fertile territ... ...was three in the morning. This fa- mous timepiece, always regulated on the Greenwich merid- ian, which was now some seventy-seven degrees westward, wa... ...ruption, and, leaving the train, they began to engage such vehicles as the village could provide four-wheeled palkigharis, waggons drawn by zebus, car... ...nies, and what not. Mr. Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty, after searching the village from end to end, came back without having found anything. “I shall ...

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...ch, and finding the sea mercilessly beat- Charles Dickens 6 ing over a great broken ship, had clambered up the stony ways, like staircases without st... ...hour ago. So cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affectation, as true practical Christianity ever is! I read more of the New Testa- ment in the fresh ... ...d. Similarly, one of the graves for four was lying open and ready, here, in the churchyard. So much of the scanty space was already de- voted to the w... ...dion, played by a young girl of a delicate prettiness of face, figure, and dress, that made the audience look coarser. She sang to the instru- ment, t... ...adies to have besought them to make all possible display when they come. In these circumstances much excitement was one day occasioned by Mrs. Mitts r... ...ighbour did afterwards sol- emnly affirm that when he was admitted into Mrs. Mitts’s room, she heard a smack. Heard a smack which was not a blow. Ther... ...t not again did he depart alone; for Mrs. Mitts, in a bonnet identified as hav- ing been re-embellished, went out walking with him, and stayed out til... ...ll the ladies, matters not. Before another week was out, Titbull’s was startled by another phenomenon. At ten o’clock in the forenoon appeared a cab, ... ...ared a cab, containing not only the Greenwich Pensioner with one arm, but, to boot, a Chelsea Pensioner with one leg. Both dismounting to assist Mrs. ...

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...rtagnan was not a man to let himself be killed like that. After he had remained through the heat of the day unconscious on the battle-field, the cool ... ... him. D’Artagnan, on his side, went up to the landlady, praised her wine—which was a horrible production from the coun- try of Montreuil—and heard fro... ...ut that’s of no con- sequence to us,” said D’Artagnan; “let us ride onward.” At about half-past eight o’clock they reached the first houses in Noisy; ... ...ed precipitately from the midst of the pavement to take refuge behind a pile of faggots, from which retreat her eyes would shine like peridores. These... ...ved at the hotel it was not long before Athos en- tered. “All’s well,” he cried, as he entered; “I have hired a ce- dar wherry, as light as a canoe, a... ...affold, was to change 528 Twenty Years After his dress for that of a workman, slip out with his deliver- ers, pass the sentinels, who would suspect n... ...morning. I only know that there was a conspiracy to rescue the king.” “Ah, you knew that?” said Mordaunt. “It matters little. Four men, disguised as w... ...ish to know him. Provided Charles is dead, it is the axe, not the man, we must thank.” “And yet, without the man, the king would have been 547 Dumas ... ...Sir,” he said, “you are a pro- found thinker and your plan was sublime.” “Say absurd, since it has become useless. The only sub- lime ideas in politic...

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...re, of an eligible cottage without farm at- tached, in the pleasant little village of Llanblethian close by Cowbridge in Glamorganshire; of this he to... ...ve brown loaves of the most excellent home-baked bread. The native peasant village is not generally beautiful, though it might be, were it swept and t... ...bered, and the old stones are still left lying. This is the ordinary Welsh village; but there are excep- tions, where people of more cultivated tastes... ...more clear than the outlines of a cloud in a moonless sky. But of L——, the village where I afterwards lived, I persuade myself that every line and hue... ...d to the pos- sibility of visiting L——; but I am told that it is a changed village; and not only has man been at work, but the old yew on the hill has... ...g in comparison, the most im- portant seems to have been a Dr. Burney’s at Greenwich; a large day-schoo] and boarding-school, where Anthony and John g... ...rs, in the strangest, most peaceful way. I felt myself walking with you in Greenwich Park, and on the seashore at Sandgate; almost even I seemed a bab...