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...nter described how she was preparing a website that chronicled the life of Queen Charlotte of England but was not able to obtain permission to use a ... ...scribed how she was preparing a website that chronicled the life of Queen Charlotte of England but was not able to obtain permission to use a copyrig... ...able to obtain permission to use a copyrighted image of a portrait of the Queen. Instead, she used a public domain black-and-white lithograph from ... ...ork photograph would be useless: for example, “farmer with three horses, mountains in background.” 238 A user might never match the photograph to ...
... the Ladrones -- Arrival at the Philippines -- Kindly received by the King and Queen -- Planting the standard of Spain -- The King is converted arid b... ...nds made by the Pope -- The intrepidity of Drake -- Drake is recognized by the queen but is refused a commission -- Preparations to send out an expedi... ...ious/questions raised by Spanish claimants -- Banquet to Drake attended by the queen -- Drake is knighted by Elizabeth -- A love affair between Drake ... ...-- Splendid equipment of the expedition -- Among the Brazilians -- Lost on the mountains of Terre del Fuego -- Habits of the Fuegans -- An extraordina... ...ards the tropics? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deep valleys, high tablelands, islands of the deep, active v... ...have been given of the finding of the hulls of ships and iron anchors upon the mountains of Switzerland, very far from land, though that the sea could... ...ration, the event was happily celebrated, after which the two sailed for Queen Charlotte's Sound, New Zealand, where they both came to anchor and were... ...ength the Endeavor and Adventure parted company and Cook had to put into Queen Charlotte's Sound for repairs, hoping that as appointment had been made... ...d on the following day the Resolution came to anchor before Ship Cove in Queen Charlotte's Sound. On going ashore many evidences were observed that th...
...de? Always in her dreams, it was she and not Helene Bennett who reigned as queen there, bringing Daniel his tea in the morning, kissing him goodnigh... ... “We are all the same in the dark, you must realize that. Helene. Morgan. Queen Victoria. It makes no difference in the dark. The illusion is al... ...s wounded chest, staggered to the top and collapsed, ready to roll down the mountainside. “Excuse me. Time for a rescue.” Jumping over the mop ... ... do quite nicely on our own. Good night.” “As you wish.” With the air of queenly disdain that was a constant part of her nature, Lydia mounted th... ...ds. Tears tried to slip from her eyes but they were defeated by the mighty mountains of her cheeks, and they puddled on her lashes. Even blinking h... ...o her feet. “Why not Juliet? Ophelia? Why not Hamlet himself? The Great Charlotte Cushman did it, why not me? I could cut my hair, wear tights.... ...llowed the River Lee westward toward the sea through the fog shrouded Shehy Mountains where mists haunted the glass-like surface of Gouganne Barra. ...
...ontë A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Professor by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Professor by Charlotte Brontë, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charlotte Brontë The Professor by Charlotte Brontë Preface THIS LITTLE BOOK... ...shments of the daughter. These three, I at once saw, deemed themselves the queens of the school, and conceived that by their splendour they threw all ... ...y countrymen, and our blood-earned freedom, and the natural glories of our mountains? Y ou’re mistaken—you’re mistaken.” “Social greatness? Call it wh... ... Henri is in person “chetive”, in mind “sans caractere”, compared with the queen of my visions. You, in- deed, may put up with that “minois chiffone”;...
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...e Brontë A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë PREFACE A PREFACE TO THE FIR... ... feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over t... ...ost of the younger ones—looked handsome; but Miss Ingram was certainly the queen.” “And what was she like?” “T all, fine bust, sloping shoulders; long... ...ed herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly am- plitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime. She a... ...those who wish to consult her must go to her one by one.” “You see now, my queenly Blanche,” began Lady Ingram, “she encroaches. Be advised, my angel ... ...o warm herself: what will she do for a fire?” “Fire rises out of the lunar mountains: when she is cold, I’ll carry her up to a peak, and lay her down ... ...n in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, and felt the tor- rent come: to rise I had no will, to flee I ha...
...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity.... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 In suc... ...p the cocks in all their neat fairness and height, whistling meantime the ‘Queen of the May,’ and now and then singing a line. She watched the old cow... ...atisfaction on her bright face. ‘The roc’s egg?’ said Laura, smiling. ‘The queen of the evening can’t be content—’ ‘No; you are the queen, if the one ... ...dily aloof from the party in the bay window, where she was reigning like a queen, and inspiring gaiety like a fairy. She made Guy sing with her; it wa... ...trough so long as to seem as if they were lost, then rising—rising high as mountains. Over the roaring waters came at length the sound of voices, a ch... ...- ity notion that the feud was so strong, that it was nearly a case of the mountains bending and the streams ascending, ere she was to be our foeman’s... ...visited the two beautiful lakes of Thun and Brientz. On first coming among mountains, Amabel had been greatly afraid of the precipices, and had been v...
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...Electronic Classics Series Publication Nuttie’s Father Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charlotte M. Young Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M Yonge CHAPTER I. ST CHAPT... ...nt, and see pictures, and buy them, and see all the cathedrals and all the mountains. But perhaps, since Mark Egremont had really been so generous in ... ...nabella, so chris- tened, but always called Annaple after the old Scottish queens, her ancestors. She had been May Egremont’s chief friend ever since ... ... Such had been the fairy castle of Nuttie’s life. She had dreamed of Swiss mountains, Italian pictures, Rheinland castles, a perpetual panorama of del... ...fied gaudiness, was redolent of St. Louis; and the cell of the slaughtered queen was as a martyr’s shrine, trod with reverence. There were association... ...ul to hear. ‘Well, Sycorax had done one good deed, and when I look at you, queening it there, I feel that so have I.’ ‘You were very good to me, I kno...
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...The Prince and the Page By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ... and started forward to pay his homage of dignified blan- dishments to the queenly sweetness that pleased his canine appreciation. Richard was forced ... ...s tongue to speak my own Castillian to me; how he com- forted me, when the Queen, my mother-in-law, required more dignity of me than I yet knew how to... ...th their hair uncovered, and sur- rounded by a garland of precious stones. Queen Eleanor of Provence, still bent on youthfulness, looked somewhat hag-... ...ne day, Whitsun Tuesday, in the exquisite beauty of an early summer in the mountains of the Levant—when “the flowers appear on the earth, the time of ... ...h the porphyry, jasper, and marble, of exquisite tints, that came from the mountains around; the shrines were touched with gold, and the roofs and vau... ...lf obliged to summon the fierce Pyrenean to pursue the wild Welsh in their mountains. 146 The Prince and the Page CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV...
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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Modern T elemachus by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Modern T elemachus by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e A Modern Telemachus By Charlotte M. Yonge PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE THE IDEA... ...for her, were she daughter of the King of France, since he was King of the Mountains. The welcome at Algiers and the Te Deum in the Consul’s chapel al... ...f Philip V . of Spain, the Prince for whose cause Berwick had fought. This Queen, Elizabeth Farnese, wanted rank and dominion for her own son; moreove... ...ood lad. Nay, for my part, we all lived peaceably and happily enough under Queen Anne; and by all I hear, so they still do at home under the Elector o... ...l would be well!’ replied the other lady; ‘but we have to pass through the mountains, and the Catalans are always ill-af- fected to us French.’ ‘Nay; ... ... brought her from time to time. ‘Mere weeds,’ she said. And the grapes and Queen Claude plums he brought her were always sour. Yet a something deep bl... ...ma. I will pray that He may make me so.’ Land was in sight at last. Purple mountains rose to the south in wild forms, looking strangely thunderous and...
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...Under the Storm Or Steadfast’s Charge By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Und... ...nic Classics Series Publication Under the Storm, or Steadfast’s Charge by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...tronic transmission, in any way. Under the Storm, or Steadfast’s Charge by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classic... ...their secret, and a kind of palace to them. They had sat there as king and queen, had paved it with stones from the brook, and had had many plans for ... ...as a man from these parts, so none meddled with him, or gave notice to the Queen’s officers, and our folk at the farm sold his baskets at the town, an... ...rd no more.” Whether the Captain meant Aholah or Athaliah, or al- luded to Queen Henrietta Maria, or to the English Church, Jeph’s auditors never knew... ...ng out Popish priests and rebels in their lurk- ing places in the bogs and mountains, that the Lord General hath granted him the land that he took wit...
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...Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication M... ...lassics Series Publication Modern Broods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University.... ...c transmission, in any way. Modern Broods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...o!” “Oh! my galleons are coming when George has prospered a little more in Queensland, and comes to fetch me. Sophia and he say they shall fight for m... ...le Thekla and Polly. But if George comes home this spring, and I go out to Queensland with him, perhaps I should have asked you to take this house off... ...pi- cycle orb in orb.” “Epicycle?” cried Vera. “I saw it advertised in the Queen. A splendid one.” “Ah! Magdalen, you will think I have not taught the... ... cathe- dral-like church for the population rising around him in the Rocky Mountains; and meeting Lord Rotherwood in Lon- don heard of the work at St.... ... plenty of varieties of beautiful material to be found near at hand in the mountains; but Hubert was sent first for a short journey in Italy to study ...
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...The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...s Series Publication The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...smission, in any way. The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...Hugue- not shot down by the persecutors, and the son who had fled into the mountains and returned to bury the corpse, and take the prized, blood-stain... ...what Winifred there thinks wisest? Ah! Albinia, you want to learn, as poor Queen Anne of Aus- tria did, that docility in illness may be self-resignati... ...be- gun to regard Mr. and Mrs. Kendal in the same relation as the king and queen at chess. The day before the christening, Mr. Ferrars brought back Gi... ... said Albinia, subsiding into her corner. ‘Is it from the situation of the mountains in the moon?’ continued the pertinacious damsel. ‘In Africa!’ sai... ... or psalm, Gilbert signed imploringly for more, even like our mighty dying queen; and at each short pause, the distressed agonized ex- pression would ... ...XXI CHAPTER XXXI THE LAKE OF LUCERNE lay blue and dark in the shade of the mountains, on whose summits the evening sunshine was fast mounting, peak af...
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...THE TRIAL or MORE LINKS OF THE DAISY CHAIN By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...lassics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...c transmission, in any way. The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ... be kind to her; and she has come to the right shop; hasn’t she, my little queen?’ ‘I thought she almost wished it this morning,’ said Ethel, ‘when sh... ...he house was of more recent date, having been built by a wealthy yeoman of Queen Anne’s time, and had long ranges of square-headed sash win- dows, sur... ...ese were the times of Jeanie Deans; if the pardon depended on our own good Queen, he should not doubt of it a moment. Why, was not the boy just the ag... ...utterings passed between Aubrey and Gertrude, of ‘Day set,’ and ‘Cheviot’s mountains lone,’ the head of the family, for the first time, showed cogniza... ...the Doctor. ‘One would think it was a naiad that had had an offer from the mountains next, for she has been shedding a perfect river of tears ever sin...
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...Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland By Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Unkn... ...ation Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ...y way. Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ............................................................... 90 CHAPTER XI QUEEN MARY’S PRESENCE CHAMBER ................................................ ... p. 58 of vol. ii. of the second edition of Miss Strickland’s Life of Mary Queen of Scots, or p. 100, vol. v. of Burton’s History of Scotland, will be... ...d the report on which this tale is founded. If circumstances regarding the Queen’s captivity and Babington’s plot have been found to be omitted, as we... ...hen it cleared only pigmies, with their dogs, white bears, and seals, also mountains of ice bigger than any church, blue as my lady’s best sapphires, ... ...and breathing the free and fresh morning air. “My Scottish blood loves the mountains, and bounds the more freely in the fresh breeze,” she said, gazin...
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...HE LADY ARBELL ........................................................................................................................ 90 CHAPTER XI QUEEN MARY?S PRESENCE CHAMBER ................................................................................. 95 CHAPTER XII A FURIOUS LETTER ....................................................................................
...BEECHCROFT AT ROCKSTONE by Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beec... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. ... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...ery pretty; but, oh! she had grown so awfully fat. We used to call her the Queen of the White Ants. Then Kally—her name was really Kalliope—was very n... ...IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV THE Q THE Q THE Q THE Q THE QUEEN OF UEEN OF UEEN OF UEEN OF UEEN OF THE THE THE THE THE WHITE ANT WHIT... ... very beautiful now,’ said Gillian, feeling a qualm as she recollected the Queen of the White Ants, and rather oddly divided between truthfulness, fea... ...oming through the mist like distant forests as 85 Beechcroft At Rockstone mountains. Moreover, she got a scolding from Aunt Ada, who met her coming i... ...nd her child died. But he made a good thing of it with his quarries in the mountains.’ 95 Beechcroft At Rockstone ‘You sordid person, do you think th... ... that man should not make a daughter of you! Then you would travel and see mountains and pictures and everything. Oh, should you not like that?’ ‘Like...
...DYNEVOR TERRACE VOL. II by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publiaction Dyn... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publiaction Dynevor Terrace Volume II by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dynevor Terrace Volume II by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...s. Walby’s and Mrs. Richardson’s? People who call her Mrs. James!’ ‘Such a queen as she looks among them!’ said Clara. ‘One comfort is, they don’t lik... ...a district with the bleakness, but not the beauty, of the neighbourhood of mountains; the fresh September breeze was laden with smoke, and stations st... ...ble, my glorious, generous brother; and, if he hasn’t it, it may go to the Queen, for what I care! I’ll never have one stone of it. Why could you not ... ...he liked now and then to see something green for a change after these bare mountains and rocks, and the old Don Manrique was very civil and agreeable.... ...d.’ ‘Lucky girl,’ said Louis. ‘I’m sure I don’t care for it,’ said Clara; ‘mountains and pictures are not a bit in my line, unless I had Isabel and yo... ...nted a mere household drudge, why had he not looked elsewhere? Up went her queenly head, as she believed her powers were meant for other things; but h...
...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e THE LANCES OF LYNWOOD by CHARLOTTE M. YONGE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE FOR AN E... ...d Mortimer, a grant of the manor of Lynwood, but on the fall of the wicked Queen, the rightful owner had been reinstated, without, however, any formal... ...taine. “Thibault Sanchez, so please you, noble Sir, a poor Squire from the mountains, who hath seen some few battles and combats in 96 The Lances of ...
...VOR TERRACE: OR THE CLUE OF LIFE BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,’ CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. V V V V VOL OL OL OL OLUME I UME I UME I UME I UME I A ... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ...nsmission, in any way. Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...s, red margins; and for the apparatus, I have brought a globe with all the mountains in high relief;—yes, and an admirable physical atlas, and a box o... ... of an essay upon Spade Hus- bandry, the dramatis personae of a tragedy on Queen Brunehault, scores of old letters, and the dust of three years and a ... ...th his richness of illustration, and Mary’s actual experience of ocean and mountains. She brought him whatever books he wanted, and from the be- nevol... ... tranquil dig- nity and pensive grace exactly suited the style of her tall queenly figure, delicate features, dark soft languid eyes, and clear olive ... ...efits of the last month, and at changeableness that was a desertion of the queen to whom all homage was due. He was astonished that Louis turned into ...