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...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne PART ONE CHAPTER ... ... sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two... ... herself during the night in 27º 30' lat. and 72º 15' long., struck on her starboard quarter a rock, marked in no chart for that part of the sea. Unde... ...happened about five o’clock in the morn- ing, as the day was breaking. The officers of the quarter- deck hurried to the after-part of the vessel. They... ... having been driven with prodigious strength, and piercing an iron plate 1 3/8 inches thick, had withdrawn itself by a backward motion. Such was the l... ...tain the animal re- quired. It will have the proportions determined by the officers of the Shannon, the instrument required by the perforation of the ... ... feet this pressure equals that of 10 atmo- spheres, of 100 atmospheres at 3,200 feet, and of 1,000 atmospheres at 32,000 feet, that is, about 6 miles... ...under the stern of the vessel. At that moment I was leaning forward on the starboard netting. Conseil, standing near me, was looking straight before h... ...ject he pointed to. At two cables’ length from the Abraham Lincoln, on the starboard quarter, the sea seemed to be illuminated all over. It was not a ...

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.............. 4 2. THE MAGIC SHOP................................................................................................................... 21 3. THE VALLEY OF SPIDERS..................................................................................................... 31 4. THE TRUTH ABOUT PYECRAFT .......................................................................

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.......................................................................... 21 3. THE V ALLEY OF SPIDERS.................................................... ... abundant feast of such good, coarse, wholesome Fame and Success as a man, starved for all his years as he had been starved, might be reasonably ex- p... ...led. Filmer lost the end of the archiepiscopal compliment. He stood up and stared as his invention swooped out of sight and reach of him. His long, wh... ...s still gripped his useless apparatus. The archbishop followed his skyward stare with an apprehension unbecoming in an archbishop. Then came the crash... ...hoever they may be, to send in their bill in their own time. 31 H G Wells 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. THE THE THE THE THE V V V V VALLE ALLE ALLE ALLE ALLEY ... ...e, are apt to weigh on the minds of Medical 52 Twelve Stories and a Dream Officers of Health. I was as sympathetic as I knew how, and when he called ...

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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?...........................................

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...rsity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAP... ...wed little man, Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBL... ...g and with a trifle of elbow-room to stretch and breathe in. This was on the starboard; for the bulk of the emigrants stuck hopelessly on the port sid... ...I have never been so dog-tired as that night in Chicago. When it was time to start, I descended the plat- form like a man in a dream. It was a long tr... ...arance of sentiment an you would expect from a retired slaver, turned with a start and bade the performer stop that “damned thing.” “I’ve heard about ... ...our arrival, which we thought a strange thing in itself; but when one of the officers of the Pharos, passing narrowly by him, observed his book to be ... ... and the suns and worlds themselves, imponderable figures of abstraction, NH 3 , and H 2 O. Consideration dares not dwell upon this view; that way mad...

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... Master Page, Falstoffe, Bardolph, Nym, Pistoll, Anne Page, Mistresse Ford, Mistresse Page, Simple. Shallow. Sir Hugh, perswade me not: I will make a Star-Chamber matter of it, if hee were twenty Sir John Falstoffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow Esquire....

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...a prima. 2 Enter Iustice Shallow, Slender, Sir Hugh Euans, Master 3 Page, Falstoffe, Bardolph, Nym, Pistoll, Anne Page, 4 Mistre... .... 5 Shallow. 6 Sir Hugh, perswade me not: I will make a Star-Chamber 7 matter of it, if hee were twenty Sir 8 Iohn Fa... ... (fidelicet my selfe) and the three party is (lastly, and fi-nally) - 3 - The Merry Wiues of Windsor Shakespeare: First Folio 132 mine Host ... ... 382 Pist. Wilt thou reuenge? 383 Ni. By Welkin, and her Star. 384 Pist. With wit, or Steele? 385 Ni. With both th... ...1031 Fal. Hang him, mechanicall- salt- butter rogue; I wil 1032 stare him out of his wits: I will awe- him with my cud-gell: 1033 it sh... ... M.Page. Your husband’s comming hether (Woman) 1444 with all the Officers in Windsor, to search for a Gentle-man, 1445 that he sayes is ...

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... -- 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was uponthe face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of thewaters -- 3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light -- 4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the lightfrom the darkness -- 5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.And the e...

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... face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of thewaters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw t... ...hts inthe firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was 3 Genesis 1:1 1:15 so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater l... ...light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give li... ...ade; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it h... ...e brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy s... ...ng I will bless thee, and in multi plying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy s... ...nd looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Where ... ... him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in ...

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... land of Benjamin -- 2. To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign -- 3. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month -- 4. The...

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...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 1 T he words of Jeremiah the son... ...Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, un... ...when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: a... ...th made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh hi... ...veth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof r...

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... yield day to night; Comets importing change of Times and States, Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, And with them scourge the bad revolting Stars, That have consented unto Henries death: King Henry the Fift, too famous to live long, England ne?re lost a King of so much worth. Glost. England ne?re had a King untill his time: Vertue he had, deserving to command, Hi...

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...y the Sixt k2v Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 Dead March. 3 Enter the Funerall of King Henry the Fift, attended on by 4 ... ...tall Tresses in the Skie, 12 And with them scourge the bad reuolting Stars, 13 That haue consented vnto Henries death: 14 King Hen... ...Combat with aduerse Planets in the Heauens; 64 A farre more glorious Starre thy Soule will make, 65 Then Iulius Caesar, or bright— 66 ... ...h. 119 Win. What? wherein Talbot ouercame, is’t so? 120 3.Mes. O no: wherein Lord Talbot was o’rethrown: 121 The circumstance... ...round confusedly, 131 To keepe the Horsemen off, from breaking in. - 3 - The first Part of Henry the Sixt Shakespeare: First Folio 132 More... ...50 Nor yet S[aint]. Philips daughters were like thee. 351 Bright Starre of Venus, falne downe on the Earth, 352 How may I reuerently w... ... and enter in the hurly- burly the Maior 427 of London, and his Officers. 428 Maior. Fye Lords, that you being supreme Magistrates... ... Scar- Crow that affrights our Children so. 511 Then broke I from the Officers that led me, 512 And with my nayles digg’d stones out of the ... ...will we take some order in the Towne, 1573 Placing therein some expert Officers, 1574 And then depart to Paris, to the King, 1575 For ther...

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...Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library. If a word by way of suggestion ... ...atrimony, he for some time deliberately clung to a life of degradation and star- vation rather than return to his lawful governors. Discovered by chan... ...Bos- ton: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1877. [12 vols., with notes and index.] 3. Selections from De Quincey. Edited with an Introduction and Notes, by M.... ...oach trav- ellers where two mails in opposite directions, north and south, starting at the same minute from points six hundred miles apart, met almost... ...t those turnpike gates: with what deferential hurry, with what an obedient start, they fly open at our approach! Look at that long line of carts and c... ...r lay mangled together. But I told her how these dear children of England, officers and privates, had leaped their horses over all obstacles as gaily ... ...e conditions in every one of the items:— 1, a monster he was; 2, dreadful; 3, shapeless; 4, huge; 5, 44 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc who ha... ...though it were even mer- ited. But these personal distinctions (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) iden- tified in an instant an old friend of mine whom I had known ... ...7 24 MADE PRISONER BY THE BURGUNDIANS: The English have accused the French officers of conniving at Joan’s capture through jealousy of her successes. ...

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...TAIN CREICHTON. ................................................. 205 Note 3.—IRON RASP.................................................................. ...e had hitherto been speaking of what, in theatri- cal language, was called stars; but they were sometimes fall- ing ones. There was another class of s... ...could not act Hamlet alone. There must be generals, colo- nels, commanding-officers, subalterns. But what are the pri- vate soldiers to do? Many have ... ...heatre were deserted by the ladies. They are, in fact, our most attractive stars. “The Patronesses of the Theatre, the Ladies of the City of Edinburgh... ...and a civil landlord?” This I said by way of saying something, for the man stared very hard at me. “Very decent accommodation. Ye’ll no be for fashing... ...stead of a knocker, for the purpose of summoning the attendants. [See Note 3.—Iron Rasp.] He who usually appeared at the sum- mons was a smart lad, in... ... a kind one, and comes of a good stem. It may be, he can prom- ise for our officers that they will touch me with no infamous punishment; and if they o... ...considered as having broken his word, and betrayed the con- fidence of his officers? and whom but Hamish Bean MacTavish would the Gael accuse for havi... ...ins in their natu- ral unsophisticated state; [Letters from the Mountains, 3 vols.—Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders—The Highlanders, and...

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...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad Typhoon by Joseph Conrad Far as the mariner on highest ma... ...s no wind, and the heat was close. The coolies lounged, talked, smoked, or stared over the rail; some, drawing water over the side, sluiced each other... ...gether over the ship, Captain,” said the senior partner; and the three men started to view the perfections of the Nan-Shan from stem to stern, and fro... ...r nature’;” when a change in the visitor’s counte- nance made her stop and stare. “Solomon… . Oh! … Mrs. Rout,” stuttered the young man, very red in t... ...ents of do-nothing heroics to which even good men surrender at times. Many officers of ships can no doubt recall a case in their experience when just ... ...was set at ease, and a black marble clock, priced by the local jeweller at 3£ 18s. 6d., had a dis- creet stealthy tick. The door flew open, and a girl... ...ull. His friend in the Western Ocean trade imparted it freely to the other officers of his liner. “A chap I know writes to me about an extraordinary a...

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...rsity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Bickerstaff- Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift, et ... ... that the whole is a cheat; that it is absurd and ridiculous to imagine, the stars can have any influence at all upon human actions, thoughts, or incl... ...t noble art is treated by a few mean illiterate traders be- tween us and the stars; who import a yearly stock of non- The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers... ... Or their mutual quarrels in verse and prose of Whig and Tory, wherewith the stars have little to do? Having long observed and lamented these, and a h... ...gh twitter, when they go to visit a general lying-in of his first child; his officers serving as midwives, nurses and rockers dispensing caudle; or if...

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...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H. G . Wells The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells Chapter 1 Chapter 1... ...ay part of Kent, and my bungalow stood on the edge of an old sea cliff and stared across the flats of Romney Marsh at the sea. In very wet weather the... ... Roman brick- work, and from it old Watling Street, still paved in places, starts like an arrow to the north. I used to stand on the hill and think of... ...een him only against the light. “One moment, sir,” said I as he turned. He stared. “One moment,” he said, “certainly. Or if you wish to speak to me fo... ...that matter we compromised after two days’ delay. 23 H. G . Wells Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 The B The B The B The B The Build... ...a little, and at times eating, although without any keenness of appe- tite,3 but for the most part in a sort of quiescence that was neither waking nor... ...ymbols, vanished in the darkness be- hind. The way was lined by ushers and officers in caparisons that gleamed like steel, and beyond their line, so f...

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...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART BY H. G. WELLS 1922 CHAPTER CHAP... ... disregard of the room. He drifted to the midmost of the three windows and stared out despondently at Harley Street. For a minute or so he remained as... ...rate. Y ou wouldn’t bring a man?” “I always drive myself.” S S S S Section 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 “There’s something very pleasant, sai... .... Frozen in a sprightly attitude, its stiff bound and its fixed heavenward stare was highly suggestive of a forced and tactful disregard of current un... ...e uncongenial habits of some unloved intimate. And when the moment came to start and the little engine did not immediately re- spond to the electric s... ...ed in. The two philosophers returned to practical matters. S S S S Section 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 For half an hour after the departure ... ... the name of Belinda. “It gave me cold shivers to think that those Italian officers might understand English. “ The lady who was called V.V. smiled as...

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...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 KING RICHARD II William Shakespeare (written about 1594) DRAMATIS PERSONA... ...OUCESTER : (DUCHESS:) Lady attending on the Queen. (Lady:) Lords, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, two Gardeners, Keeper, Messenger, Groom, and other Atte... ... shall see Justice design the victor’s chivalry. Lord marshal, command our officers at arms Be ready to direct these home alarms. [Exeunt.] Richard II... ...so bold Or daring hardy as to touch the lists, Except the marshal and such officers Appointed to direct these fair designs. HENRY BOLINGBROKE : Lord ... ...The bay trees in our country are all wither’d And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven; The pale faced moon looks bloody on the earth And lean loo... ... Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind I see thy glory like a shooting star Fall to the base earth from the firmament. Thy sun sets weeping in the... ...hat answer shall I make to this base man? Shall I so much dishonor my fair stars, On equal terms to give him chastisement? Either I must, or have mine...

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...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad I F OR A LONG TIME after... ...wake this highway of the Far East. Darkness and gleams on the water, clear stars on a black sky, perhaps the lights of a home steamer keep- ing her un... ...e end of the beat. There was a three days’ rest for the old ship before he started her again in inverse order, seeing the same shores from an- other b... ...early opposite the big stone pile of the harbor office till it was time to start again on the old round of 1600 miles and thirty days. Not a very en- ... ...time neither the island nor the reef had any official existence. Later the officers of her Majesty’s steam vessel Fusilier, dispatched to make a surve... ...through a closed door, “Sit down and don’t wait for me.” And his impressed officers took their places, exchanging looks and whis- pers across the tabl... ... a Glasgow ship whose master had died in Saigon. “I sent word of it to the officers’ quarters in the Sail- ors’ Home,” he continued, while the limp in...

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...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. We... ...n tents, in trenches, thoughtful. I have seen Alpini sitting restfully and staring with speculative eyes across the mountain gulfs to- wards unseen an... ...ards unseen and unaccountable enemies. I have seen train- loads of wounded staring out of the ambulance train win- dows as we passed. I have seen thes... ...ut can we poor human beings never realise our quality without destruction? 3 3 3 3 3 One of the larger singularities of the great war is its failure t... ...drama without a hero; without countless incidental heroes no doubt, but no star part. Even the Germans, with a national predisposition for hero-cults ... ...ly how to pack and ex- plode his little hoard. On the eleventh of July, at 3.30, as he rejoices to state in his official report, “the mine responded ... ...ing shafts set with iron climbing 45 H G Wells bars. In this place German officers and soldiers have lived con- tinually for nearly two years. This w... ... to develop with considerable freedom from old army tradition; many of its officers are ex-civil engineers and so forth; Headquarters is a little shy ... ...ay through crowds of resting men in khaki and horizon blue, in which staff officers in automo- biles whisk hither and thither, in which there are nurs...

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... University is an equal opportunity University. Bleak House – Volume Two 3 CHAPTER XXXV Esther’s Narrative I lay ill through several weeks, and the ... ...ome where in great black space, there was a flaming necklace, or ring, or starry circle of some kind, of which I was one of the beads! And when my on... ...was so strange to me that I think I should have put my hands before it and started back but for the encouragement I have mentioned. Very soon it becam... ...e glass when Charley came in on tiptoe. “Dear, dear, miss!” cried Charley, starting. “Is that you?” “Yes, Charley,” said I, quietly putting up my hair... ...beach. There was a concourse of people in one spot, surrounding some naval officers who were landing from a boat, and press ing about them with unusu... ...e noble house, the pictures of his forefa thers, strangers defacing them, officers of police coarsely handling his most precious heirlooms, thousands... ...e. It was now past one, as I saw by the clock against the wall. Two police officers, looking in their per fectly neat uniform not at all like people ...

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... came on Annie pale, Nursing the sickly babe, her latest-born. Forward she started with a happy cry, And laid the feeble infant in his arms; Whom Enoc... ... by the blind wall of night Brook’d not the expectant terror of her heart, Started from bed, and struck herself a light, Then desperately seized the h... ...a fair sea-circle, day by day, Scarce-rocking, her full-busted figure-head Stared o’er the ripple feathering from her bows: Then follow’d calms, and t... ...ng-breath Of England, blown across her ghostly wall: And that same morning officers and men Levied a kindly tax upon themselves, Pitying the lonely ma... ...O fie, you golden nothing, fie You golden lie. 3. O Ringlet, O Ringlet, I count you much to blame, For Ringlet, O Ringle...

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...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Point of View by Henry James I. FROM MISS AURORA CHURCH, ... ...retended to be immensely pre-occupied with this idea, in order to make her start. In reality cela m’est parfaitement egal. I am only afraid I shall li... ...ridge; he would have been useful on such occasions. On the other hand, the startling question would have presented itself—Who would have carried Plumm... ...er; you write your name in a hor- rible book, where every one may come and stare at it and finger it. A man behind the counter stares at you in si- 3... ...ut as you would in the Palais Royal. No functionaries, no door-keepers, no officers, no uniforms, no badges, no restrictions, no au- thority—nothing b... ... doors were gaping wide—I walked all about; there were no door-keepers, no officers, nor flunkeys—not even a policeman to be seen. It seemed strange n...