Excerpt Details
...mes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth?s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhaver to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil inces...

Full Text Search Details
... He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months a... ...occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to ... ... I heard, also, the sound of oars. Evidently the strange steamboat had lowered its boats. As the time went by I marvelled that I was still alive. I ha... ...cut the water there was a great foaming and gurgling, and I seemed directly in its path. I tried to cry out, but was too exhausted. The bow plunged do... ...plunge of a ship on the sea. The terrific gong was a frying pan, hanging on the wall, that rattled and clattered with each leap of the ship. The raspin... ...g toward the rigging, to which might have clung, and was met by the descending wall of water. What happened after that was very confusing. I was benea... ...hich is life destroyed), than you know what to do with. Have you ever seen the London dockers fighting like wild beasts for a chance to work?” He start... ...reciatory wave of his hand. “I don’t count. Go on, go on, I pray you.” But the gates of speech were closed, and we, too, rose from the table and laugh... ...purse and my soul have both been touched. At the current price of skins in the London market, and based on a fair estimate of what the afternoon’s cat...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above all, he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the f...

Full Text Search Details
...: A Winter’s Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free an... ...niversity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, an... ...o the tune of slatting canvas, and were dismissed (something of the suddenest) on the approach of squalls. It is my hope that these surroundings of it... ...unded of old days, a laugh pro- voked and shared, a glimpse in passing of the snowy cloth and bright decanters and the Piranesis on the dining-room wa... ...ncle lived when he was a boy in the neighbourhood of St. Bride’s; he has often told me of the avenue closed up and grown over with grass, the great ga... ...days of David First. A rhyme still current in the countryside - Kittle folk are the Durrisdeers, They ride wi’ over mony spears – bears the mark of it... ...ays the Master, already much recov- ered. “I am overjoyed that this may be disclosed. My own 82 The Master of Ballantrae instructions, direct from Lo... ...ays Mr. Henry. “I must have blood, I must have blood for this,” says the Master. “Please God it shall be yours,” said Mr. Henry; and he went to the wa...

Excerpt Details
...set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to come round for it by sea, struck right across the promontory with a cheerful heart....

Full Text Search Details
...on of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu... ...d without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pen... ...ugh at my own charges, but without kith or kin; when some news of me 5 Merry Men found its way to Uncle Gordon on the Ross of Grisapol; and he, as he... ... to him, or to some of his monkish underlings who had a cell there, that the islet owes its holy and beautiful name, the House of God. Among these old... ... spit- toons, filled with sea-shells instead of sand, on the floor; with the bare stone walls and the bare wooden floor, and the three patchwork rugs ... ...of fine cities (so they say) where kings live all alone in great palaces, with a sentry walling up and down before the door. And it goes under bridges... ...ned to be done, to get forth from this accusing neighbourhood, to plunge into a bath of London multitudes, and to reach, on the other side of day, tha... ...o perceive a great arched doorway of a Moorish character: it was closed by iron-studded gates, in one of the leaves of which Felipe opened a wicket. T... ...augh- ter dwelt. That same afternoon, as I sat upon my knoll, I saw the Padre enter the gates of the residencia. The revelation of the daughter’s char...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Enoch Arden. Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf In cluster; then a moulder?d church; and higher A long street climbs to one tall-tower?d mill; And high in heaven behind it a gray down With D...

Full Text Search Details
...ylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...le one, Cared not to look on any human face, But turn’d her own toward the wall and wept. Then Philip standing up said falteringly ‘Annie, I came to a... ... is the favor that I came to ask.’ Then Annie with her brows against the wall Answer’d ‘I cannot look you in the face; I seem so foolish and so brok... ... wyvern weathercock’d the spire, Stood from his walls and wing’d his entry-gates And swang besides on many a windy sign— Whose eyes from under a pyram... ...most to the martin-haunted eaves A summer burial deep in hollyhocks; Each, its own charm; and Edith’s everywhere; And Edith ever visitant with him, He... ...soul with body. Name, too! name, Their ancient name! they might be proud; its worth Was being Edith’s. Ah, how pale she had look’d Darling, to-night... ...hey dwelt and there they rioted; there—there—they dwell no more. Burst the gates, and burn the palaces, break the works of the statuary, Take the hoar... ...and matron, many a valorous legionary. Fell the colony, city, and citadel, London, V erulam, Camulodune. 67 Enoch Arden, &c. IN QUANTITY MILTON Alcai...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smoother shadow over the yielding grass. The voice of the falling...

Full Text Search Details
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... so to Mr Riderhood, who sat on one of the blunt wooden levers of his lock-gates, dozing. Wine must be got into a butt by some agency before it can be... ...chewing. ‘Then, I make out, T’otherest, as he is a-going to her?’ ‘He left London,’ answered Bradley , ‘yesterday . I have hardly a doubt, this time, ... ...ome back?’ ‘I will.’ Riderhood nodded, and the figure of the bargeman went its way along the soft turf by the side of the towing-path, keeping near th... ...sed to the posts, bearing the dagger that slew W at T yler, in the City of London shield. Within Mr Riderhood’s knowledge all daggers were as one. Eve... ... pit for a man to be flung into with his hands tied. These slippery smooth walls would give him no chance. And I suppose those gates would suck him do... ... damask cloth, as she had sketched on the pattern of Mr T wemlow’s papered wall. ‘You will not undeceive her I hope, Mr Boffin?’ she said, turning her... ...But Venus was a punctual man, and, even as Mr Boffin replaced his watch in its pocket, was to be descried coming towards him. He quickened his pace on...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea--seemed to shatter themselves upon an adamantine surface into sparkling dust, into a dazzling vapor ...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...er Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The s... ... dazzling va- por of light that blinded the eye and wearied the brain with its unsteady brightness. Captain Whalley did not look at it. When his Seran... ...the piano in the cabin. On the very day they got engaged he had written to London for the instrument; but they had been married for over a year before... ...were gone. The name of Gardner, Patteson, & Co. was still displayed on the walls of warehouses by the waterside, on the brass plates and windowpanes i... ... a couple of miles, through patches of jungle-like vegetation, to the yard gates of the new Consolidated Docks Company. The crude frontages of the new... ... had left seemed as narrow as a lane and absolutely riotous with life. The walls of the houses were blue; the shops of the Chinamen yawned like cavern... ...y wilderness of islets, lying like an abandoned outwork of the land at the gates of the bay. Within the knots and loops of the rocks the water rested ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From ...

Full Text Search Details
...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...plotted, dancing has lasted deep into the night, – murder has been done in its chambers. There Prince Charlie held his phantom levees, and in a very g... ...ture; but on the fifty-first, behold the palace reawakened and mim- icking its past. The Lord Commissioner, a kind of stage sov- ereign, sits among st... ...g its younger suburbs. It grew, under the law that regulates the growth of walled cities in precarious situations, not in extent, but in height and de... ... stairs and alleys. The way is so narrow that you can lay a hand on either wall; so steep that, in greasy winter weather, the pavement is al- most as ... ...ough between the chimneys in an unwonted place. And all over the world, in London, in Canada, in New Zealand, fancy what a multitude of people could e... ...a multitude have gone down in the North Sea! Yonder is Auldhame, where the London smack went ashore and wreck- ers cut the rings from ladies’ fingers;... ...ontory; and the village smoke rises from among goodly trees. At the church gates, is the historical joug; a place of penance for the neck of de- tecte...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...aped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale. The facts relating to this apparition (entered ... ... the shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life wi... ...to find out where we are.” I groped about. In five steps I came to an iron wall, made of plates bolted together. Then turning back I struck against a ... ...oncealed under a thick mat, which deadened the noise of the feet. The bare walls revealed no trace of window or door. Conseil, going round the reverse... ...noisseur.” I took the cigar which was offered me; its shape re- called the London ones, but it seemed to be made of leaves of gold. I lighted it at a ... ...conical ends. It is very like a cigar in shape, a shape already adopted in London in several constructions of the same sort. The length of this cylind... ...n hour. It is under these conditions that it overturns houses, breaks iron gates, displaces twenty-four pounders. However, the Nautilus, in the midst ...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES P... ...ar by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a public... ...a such as the Germans maintain. The Ger- man propaganda is simple, because its ends are simple; as- sertions of the moral elevation and loveliness of ... ... people. I do not merely want to stop this war. I want to nail down war in its coffin. Modern war is an intolerable thing. It is not a thing to trifle... ...t hotel—it still proclaims “Restaurant” in big black letters on the garden wall— which shelters the General Headquarters of France, and here I was abl... ...rom headquarters. I went over with General Radcliffe; we drove through the gates of the villa past a single sentinel in an ordi- nary infantry uniform... ...ps extravagant expec- tations. There were holes in the plaster ceiling and wall, be- traying splintered laths, holes, that had been caused by a bomb t... ...I had not recognised before as a writer I had met some years previously in London, suddenly joined in our conversation, with a slightly different expl... ...g! One would be irresistibly reminded of a Sunday afternoon in the city of London, if it were not for those unmeaning explosions. I went to the statio...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...d. Above the clustering gasometers three unfamiliar shapes appeared, thin, wallowing bladders that flapped and rolled about, and grew bigger and bigge... ...our, Mr. Stringer, the milkman. “It’s only yestiday, so to speak, when all London turned out to see a balloon go over, and now every little place in t... ...ut to see a balloon go over, and now every little place in the country has its weekly-outings— uppings, rather. It’s been the salvation of them gas co... ...He lived in a world of obstinate and incessant change, tand in parts where its operations were unsparingly conspicuous. Vicissitude was in the very so... ...ss shops, a school-board, rates, omnibuses, tramcars—going right away into London itself—bicycles, motor-cars and then more motor-cars, a Carnegie lib... ...egs very wide apart, and filled his pipe thoughtfully. Bert sat on the low wall against which his motor-bicycle was leaning. “Funny thing fighting’ll ... ...y tail athwart a motor-car load of fac- tory girls halted outside the town gates. They screamed loudly . People looked up and saw Bert making what he ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that ma...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...w and olive-green stains caused by the percolation of damp from above. The walls were covered with dun-colored paper, upon which had been printed in o... ... the nature of a curly ostrich feather, or an acanthus flower, that had in its less faded moments a sort of dingy gaiety. There were several big plast... ...ds in this, caused by Parload’s ineffectual attempts to get nails into the wall, whereby there might hang pictures. One nail had hit be- tween two bri... ...t that, after the lamp’s trimming, dust and paraffin had been smeared over its exterior with a reckless generosity. The uneven floor boards of this ap... ... go by the road. It was altogether too dark for the short way to the lodge gates. I pointed out that it was moonlight. “With the comet thrown in,” sai... ...met wrote a day or so later to the Times—I have that Times, I have all the London papers of the last month before the Change— “The man was paid off an... ...re hastily designed building in a dirty, paper-littered back street of old London, and a number of shabbily dressed men coming and going in this with ...

Excerpt Details
...irit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the widening estuary; and with t...

Full Text Search Details
...ication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this ... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...as in sight. There she lay in mid-river, at the T ail of the Bank, her sea-signal flying: a wall of bulwark, a street of white deck-houses, an aspirin... ...dship of flies than that of men; it is so quickly joined, so easily dis- solved, so open in its communications and so devoid of deeper human qualities... ... a surprising impudence and roughness of address. Most of- ten, either the fiddle lifted up its voice unheeded, or only a couple of lads would be foot... ... frames to boot. ‘I sat down with silver plate every Sunday,’ said he, ‘and pictures on the wall. I have made enough money to be rolling in my carriag... ...e. He had wearied, it seems, of Woolwich, and one fine day, with a companion, slipped up to London for a spree. I have a suspicion that spree was mean... ...less, as I had already experimented on the sex by going abroad through a subur- ban part of London simply attired in a sleeve-waistcoat. The result wa... ...ould not every man, through all the long miles of march, feel as if he also were within the gates? CHAPTER XIV—ON THE ENJOYMENT OF UNPLEASANT PLACES—1...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. A...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...acock that I love! I love it!” She swung it softly from the little ring on its back. Then she went to her mother. “Look, Mother, isn’t it a beauty?” “... ... it was. And this was the end of it. He felt the curious soft explosion of its breaking still in his ears. He threw his piece in the fire. “Pick all t... ...ot hold more than eight or ten people, all told—just the benches along the walls, the fire between—and two little round tables. “I began to think you ... ... it, if he could take a stride in the home- ward direction. There seemed a wall in front of him. He 25 D. H. Lawrence veered. But neither could he ta... ... “Tell us about yourself, Mr. Sisson,” she said. “How do you like being in London?” 59 D. H. Lawrence “I like London,” said Aaron. Where did he live?... ...,” said Lilly. “Yes,” she cried. “Don’t you hate it, the house we live in— London—England—America! Don’t you hate them?” “I don’t like them. But I can... ...They stopped at last outside a sort of park wall with trees above. The big gates were just beyond. “Sir William Franks—there.” In a mixture of Italian...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rd of her homicidal habits was from the late Captain Blake, command- ing a London ship in which I served in 1884 as Sec- ond Officer. Captain Blake wa... ...Point of Honour.” That was many years ago. It has been since reinstated in its proper place, which is the place it occupies in this volume, in all the... ...e it occupies in this volume, in all the subsequent edi- tions of my work. Its pedigree is extremely simple. It springs from a ten-line paragraph in a... ...ined lying in indolent attitudes wherever there was a little shade under a wall, while the sentry sat with his back against the door smoking a cigaret... ...on the sill, and sat down there with his feet against the thickness of the wall and his knees slightly bent. The window was not quite broad enough for... ...ving in their small herd of cattle when we appeared. Then the great wooden gates swung to, and that four- square enclosure of broad blackened stakes p... ... her own length when, at a little pluck the tug gave her to enter the dock gates, she made one of her rampaging starts, and put such a weight on the c...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: For the long nights you lay awake And watched for my unworthy sake: For your most comfortable hand That led me through the uneven land: For all the story-books you read: For all the pains you comforted:...

Full Text Search Details
...by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge... ...table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so... ... mosque and minaret Among sandy gardens set, And the rich goods from near and far Hang for sale in the bazaar;— Where the Great Wall round China goes,... ... be drawing near, Or a comer-by be seen Swinging in the palanquin;— Where among the desert sands Some deserted city stands, All its children, sweep an... ...ere I’ll come when I’m a man With a camel caravan; Light a fire in the gloom Of some dusty dining-room; See the pictures on the walls, Heroes fights a... ...dow sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: “Ain’t you ‘shamed, you sleepy-head!” XXXV Looking-glass River Smooth it glides upon its travel, Here ... ...ting fast And kissing hands, in chorus sing: Good-bye, good-bye, to everything! To house and garden, field and lawn, The meadow-gates we swang upon, T... ...z, will be given you to read. Then you shall discover, that your name was printed down By the English printers, long before, in London town. In the gr...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: ?But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this coun...

Full Text Search Details
... “To Build a Fire” And Other Stories By JACK LONDON 1899 1918 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2003 by Global Language R... ...pyright c 2003 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents To the Man on Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...UMP it in.” “But I say, Kid, is n’t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol ’s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and pepper sauc... ...randy and pepper sauce and” — “Dump it in. Who ’s making this punch, anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By ... ...teachers, All drink of the sassafras root; But you bet all the same, If it had its right name, To the Man on Trail 3 It ’s the juice of the forbidden... ...s, — “Oh the juice of the forbidden fruit; But you bet all the same, If it had its right name, It ’s the juice of the forbidden fruit.” Malemute Kid’s... ... was tired. She rested against his great breast like a slender flower against a wall, replying lazily to Malemute Kid’s good natured banter, and stirri... ...able for the terse simplicity of their humor. Prince always turned them to the wall before the arrival of ladies; but who could suspect that this na ... ...on. And he felt a great envy of the man who could go down serenely to the dark gates of death. Surely Christ, and not he, Sturges Owen, had been mould...

Description Details
The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

Full Text Search Details
... Wars and Empire 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...es I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire ... ...eo clips and sound bites, the United States, is often perceived as trying to impose its narcissistic pseudo-culture upon a world exhausted by wars... ...throes of becoming, a vision of liberty, peace, justice, prosperity, and progress. Its system, though far from flawless, was considered superior - ... ... enemies. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled most of the Balkan, up to the very gates of Vienna, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania, Greece, Ukrai... ...les. Please add me to the list, Mr. Blair. I believe that the terrorist attacks in London were a desperate and criminal response to your own war cr... ...n Iraq since the American-British led "liberation". Yet, as New-York and Madrid and London can attest, ignoring one's own rules of engagement in war... ... and Exchange Commission) coped poorly with virulent corruption and malfeasance in Wall Street. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) capitulated ... ...al damage of short-term palliative solutions need also be mentioned." Still, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and the BBC have all reporte...

Description Details
...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 the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilou...

Excerpt Details
...e 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 -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago...

Full Text Search Details
... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "T... ...thor of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descripti... ...N AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED... ...How his wives are obtained -- Bewildering palace at Cambalue -- Description of its size and splendors -- The walls of the city -- Its battlements and ... ...Bewildering palace at Cambalue -- Description of its size and splendors -- The walls of the city -- Its battlements and streets -- How the social evil... ...s -- Their Independence maintained by constant war with Montezuma -- Wonderful walls about their capital city -- A bloody battle with the Tlascalans -... ...lry attack the bandits -- A terrible battle and the cavalry is repulsed -- The gates of Principe blown down by gunpowder, but the fight continues in t... ...th century, and which was so little known in England that it was first used in London in 1240, nor was it in common use until sixty years later. CHAP... ... as they did so were taken under home protection. Governors were sent out from London and Paris, and as they came they brought with them favorites, an...

Description Details
A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.

Excerpt Details
...EATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists between all living things on Earth; the sacred balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port ...

Full Text Search Details
...... ...ssic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries aro... ...hief lifted the silver fish gently, and admired the rainbow that was painted on its body by the Great Spirit. The sun was now beginning to settle in... ...time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea covers its shell-paved floor, but that time has long since passed away with... ...very object at a certain angle it reflected the star pattern perfectly onto the wall just above the fireplace. He stared at the dark, dotted pattern... ...d fidgeted, crossing and uncrossing his legs. Finally, his eyes settled on the walls of the teepee, he saw pictographs of buffalo, deer, and the gr... ...a fancy script of A M, split slowly apart. Richard eased the sedan through the gates and drove the length of two football fields be­ fore he entered... ...that only strong drink could make possible for them. The Co­ gnac had opened the gates to their secret feelings but their hearts rang as clear as a b... ...pped mortars, and start tossing them at Ten Downing Street like darts in a pub, London just won't exist anymore. The Okla­ homa Federal Building was ...

Excerpt Details
...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 shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, p...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ocks 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... ...a mournful old Scottish tune, sometimes only humming, some- times uttering its melancholy burthen, and she now and then touched a small harp that stoo... ... it was only one of the bairns,’ was the answer. ‘They might coup over the walls for aught thou seest,’ re- turned the new-comer. ‘If it were not for ... ..., for they were fairly well treated, though never allowed to go beyond the walls. The Queen’s health had, however, been greatly shaken, the cold blast... ...e. She longs to see the lady who is now Sister Clare at St. Katharine’s in London, and it is well not to let her and Annis brook the long sea voyage.’... ...as may seem fittest; while we leave old Seneschal Peter to keep the castle gates shut. If the Hielanders come, they’ll find the nut too hard for them ... ...country among the chari- table sisterhood of St. Katharine in the Docks in London. Sir Patrick and his lady had thus enjoyed far more training in the ...