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...in In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch: When the hurlyburly?s done, When the battle?s lost and won. Third Witch: That will be ere the set of sun. First Witch: Where the place? Second Witch: Upon the heath. Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth. First Witch: I come, Graymalkin!...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

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...le, 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, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

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...on Nuttie’s Father Nuttie’s Father 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...r your mother to go into the town, and I wish you to go with her.’ CHAPTER III. HEIR HUNTING CHAPTER III. HEIR HUNTING CHAPTER III. HEIR HUNTING CHAPT... .... HEIR HUNTING CHAPTER III. HEIR HUNTING CHAPTER III. HEIR HUNTING CHAPTER III. HEIR HUNTING CHAPTER III. HEIR HUNTING ‘And she put on her gown of gre... ...e seemed to think it preferable to driving pigs in the Texas, like her son Malcolm.’ ‘Yes, but then that was the Texas.’ ‘Oh May, May, I did not think... ...e care of her while he went away to the 205 Charlotte M. Young funeral in Scotland, and then I learnt indeed to like her and see how much there is in...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from h...

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...ublication Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t each feat of his handiwork when it is all over, as anybody else. CHAPTER III—THE FOUR SISTERS THE ROW OF HOUSES in which the old lady and her troubl... ...ld be by no means pleasing, we make our bow, and drop the curtain. CHAPTER III—SHOPS AND THEIR TENANTS WHAT INEXHAUSTIBLE food for speculation, do the... ...at the front door, and out at the back one. 65 Charles Dickens CHAPTER IV—SCOTLAND-YARD SCOTLAND-YARD IS A SMALL—a very small-tract of land, bounded ... ...gs— a kind of man whom you can warrant town-made—is fresh caught; he plays Malcolm to-night, just to accus- tom himself to an audience. He will get on... ...wall, and one wing and another. ‘Places, places. Now then, Witches— Duncan—Malcolm—bleeding officer—where’s the bleed- ing officer?’—’Here!’ replies t... ...ave ever been written, by half the Di- vines that have ever lived. CHAPTER III—THE NEW YEAR NEXT TO CHRISTMAS-DAY, the most pleasant annual epoch in e...

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