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Russian Explorers (X) Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection (X)

       
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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...t of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners with poets and explorers, read- ing a paper to an association of distinguished scholars. V... ...n to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang the Internationale. It cannot be reported that Caro... ...peace of the Thanatopsis at her third meeting (which covered Scandinavian, Russian, and Polish Literature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the ... ...erature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the sinful paganism of the Russian so-called church). Even before the entrance of the coffee and hot r... ...ad its glass-enclosed porch with swing- ing couch and scarlet cushions and Russian brass bowls. Between a waste of tracks and a raw gouged hill they f... ...er known in their days of absorption in college. They were distin- guished explorers, and they remarked, in great mutual esteem, “I bet Harry Haydock’... ...a Sherwins. They were young American sociologists, young English realists, Russian horrorists; Anatole France, Rolland, Nexo, Wells, Shaw, Key, Edgar ... ...e Avenue, with but- lers and limousines; and men who looked like fictional explorers and aviators. Her days were swift, and she knew that in her folly...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

..., on August 20, a horrible sight presented it- self to the eyes of the two explorers when they walked inland with about eighteen most obliging and cou... ...ding of what they were destined to become to that small party of Christian explorers. Young Atkin made no entry in his diary of those days, and could ... ...sily join in using the one Mota language, just as a Frenchman, a German, a Russian, a 575 Yo n g e Pole, an Italian, and an Englishman, all meeting i...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

... true. It concerned all manner of out of the way mountain principalities, explorers of nationali ties other than English, and the guntrade was, in ... ...lue draperies; gilt figures of Buddha, and little portable lacquer altars; Russian samovars with turquoises on the lid; egg shell china sets in quaint... ... were be ing made for the feet of strangers and enemies.’ ‘For?’ ‘For the Russians. The thing was an open jest among the coolies. Then I was called d... ...ple. I can do all sorts of things with black people, of course. They are Russians, and highly unscrupulous people. I–I do not want to consort with ... ...but we must wait for them. I want to walk with them to Simla. You see, one Russian is a Frenchman, and I know my French pretty well. I have friends in... ..., please?’ The gentlemen were delighted. One was visibly French, the other Russian, but they spoke English not much inferior to the Babu’s. They begge... ...hold!’ He drew from his breast a bottle of cheap whisky–such as is sold to explorers at Leh–and cleverly forced a little be tween the lama’s teeth. ‘...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...t to leap and swing. Look! How they mince!” “Have you seen those wonderful Russian dancers?” be- gan Mrs. Elliot. But Helen saw her partner coming and... ...o—that’s dreadful. Of farm labourers; no—not of the English at all, but of Russians and Chi- nese.” This train of thought did not satisfy her, and was... ...ither hut nor house, but trees and grass, which were seen only by hunters, explorers, or merchants, march- ing or sailing, but making no settlement. B... ...ther. I’d give all I have in the world to help on a revolution against the Russian government, and it’s bound to come.” She looked from Rachel to Tere...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...ur of the Voice. So much by way of portraiture is necessary to present the explorers of the Modern Utopia, which will unfold itself as a background to... ...ly a matter for his doctor and his own private con- science. I doubt if we explorers shall meet any drunken men, and I doubt not we shall meet many wh... ...ility of tyranny, 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...

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Letters of Two Brides

By: Honoré de Balzac

...the father interviewed in 1814, declared that he had seen him taken by the Russians. Mme. de l’Estorade died of grief whilst a vain search was being m... ...des dividuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind, i... ...land!” We both laughed; but I must explain the joke. The evening before, a Russian princess had told us an anecdote of this gentle- man. He had suffer... ...tion which, in the domain of sentiment, corresponds to those where so many explorers have perished, whether in the sands or at the hands of natives. Y...

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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

... occurred as that the battle of Waterloo occurred, or that a large body of Russian troops passed through England in 1914 to take part in the war on th... ...cept the saying. It is also ac- cepted by the physically enterprising, the explorers, the rest- lessly energetic of all kinds, in short, by the advent... ...anguage, its own history, its own character, than we, who have always been explorers and colonizers and grum- blers. This once self-centred nation is ...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...rints, or the thoughtless study, or the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German cr... ...he intervals at Penacook, now Concord, New Hampshire, had been observed by explorers, and, ac cording to the historian of Haverhill, in the But we fo...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...to; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the ... ...e all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the American... ...ed by French, English, and American travelers, on the one hand, and German explorers, on the other, is too great to escape attention. That difference ... ...racter with which we are not acquainted does not offend us—Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and the others—they have an interesting look, and we see b... ...ll of an idea! like the rugged ease her off a little, ease her off! rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros or the there she goes! meet her, meet h... ..., pirates, conspirators, horse jockeys, bunco steerers, misers, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, n...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...t has been made by odd and irregular means by trading companies, pioneers, explorers, unauthorised seamen, adventurers like Clive, ec- centrics like G... ...in the ballot box. Our liberal intelligences could and do still understand Russians wanting votes, Indians wanting votes, women want- ing votes. The h...

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