The Greatest Classics for Children in One Volume: 1400+ Novels, Stories, Tales of Magic, Adventure, Fairytales & Legends

... done; but she took her work to the doorstep and thought busily as the ... made her look up. The child was pointing at the tulip and talking fast in English to ... crying." A struggle went on in Trudel's mind; and for a moment she did not ...

... They thought he slipped, as at first, and the witnesses, seeing he did not ... audible, and then stopped, passing his hand over his eyes as if to dispel a cloud ... killed my father." Villefort mechanically felt for the handle of the door ...

... audible voice . Under these conditions they would undertake to find out the true ... demon great power over her . Barre asked her how many there were present , and she replied , " Two , " thus proving that the devil was no stronger in ...

... City: An. Algerine. Tale. (R. M. Ballantyne) Table of Contents Chapter One: Opens the Tale Chapter Two: Unfolds a Little of the Tale Chapter Three: Reveals Something Surprising in Regard to European Forbearance and Piratic Impudence ...

... prelude to each, a complete artillery preparation, and that, since the ... cataclysm. In the first two months of the Somme battle some forty-four German ... a shattering blow at his moral. For two years the German behind the shelter ...

Illustrated Edition: The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers ... power of God, and are apt to fancy that these passages in devotion are mere ... supernatural power in inducing its human agent to accomplish the work for which he.

The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie, Afloat ... supernatural power, had been transported also, under an impression that her ... powers of healing. She lay in a sort of paralysis, indifferent to the objects ...

... adventurers. Hutter alone knew the places where the canoes were hid, and he directed the course, while his two ... sheet of placid water, in the stillness of deep night. But the bark was too light to require any extraordinary efforts, and ...

... plateau. And Slone passed from red sand and gravel to a red, soft shale, and ... thunder. Was it a storm or an avalanche slipping or falling water? He could ... plateau before him grew wilder and bolder of outline, darker in color ...

... a dagger into the hopes of Kenneth , had he possessed the power . " Peppy , " he said , pushing his cup from him , " before our young friend arrived , you were speaking of the little boy who was left mysteriously here last night- " " It's a ...

... of live coal from the camp fire on—” The thought was checked abruptly, for he suddenly remembered that he had a burning-glass in his trousers pocket. He might perhaps be able to roast them with that—in a somewhat underdone fashion, no ...

... Cobalt is like that . I mean , he's straddling emotions which the rest of us ... way animals are natural . Not even wild Indians are natural the way Cobalt ... soul . " " It's true ! ” cried Baird , thumping his fist on his knee . “ He ...

... the 4th of June. On Sunday, after high mass, the peasants of all the parishes assemble in the porches of their different churches, and the captains will have an opportunity to communicate the order without exciting suspicion." "Your ...

The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie ... supernatural power, had been transported also, under an impression that her ... powers of healing. She lay in a sort of paralysis, indifferent to the objects which ...

... seacook who begrudged a fellow a few hours' liberty, exclaimed with an oath, 'But you don't bounce me out of my liberty, old chap, for all your yarns; for I would go ashore if every pebble on the beach was a live coal, and every stick a ...

... treasure hunting. Blackbeard might ... the secret from Captain Wellsby, but there is an obligation on us ——" "To Bill Saxby and the old sea wolf," said Joe. "We'll not forget this trump of a skipper when it comes to splittin' up the treasure ...

... adventurers. Hutter alone knew the places where the canoes were hid, and he directed the course, while his two ... sheet of placid water, in the stillness of deep night. But the bark was too light to require any extraordinary efforts, and ...

... letters are! In trembling and hope the fingers unclasp, and the folded sheet ... chords on the harp of life have been struck afar off by the arrow-words of ... love can wait well. Nor indeed, dear Mr. Sutherland, must you be too much ...

... good- tempered, kindly, honest man; or to sum up all in one word—a douce ... enough it was now with its snow-sheet over it! As he stood looking at its ... evanescence and re- generation. No dance of goblins could be more lawless in its ...

... things ! More by token she had not yet paid for them , Isobel remembered ... things settled ? Gideon Veitch . It was odd how often she found herself thinking ... league wi ' Stalin - he was a daft laddie . Me a Socialist ! I'm yin o ' the ...

... The dust of travel is gray on your mail, and I keep you standing here without rest or sup! Mitra! I see well enough now ... vault overhead, shutting out the dim light of the gathering dusk. Servius hurried on through the darkness without ...

... fetish? What grim secret did those carven eyes hold? Why did the dark little men fight so terribly for him? Turlogh ... smoking embers—the slain men—the ravished girls. They were lords of the world, these Vikings—all the southland lay ...

... treasure hunting. Blackbeard might ... the secret from Captain Wellsby, but there is an obligation on us ——" "To Bill Saxby and the old sea wolf," said Joe. "We'll not forget this trump of a skipper when it comes to splittin' up the treasure ...

... maid that they're both so in love that they'll die on the spot at the door ... story. It appears that it's a happy couple, a government clerk and his lady. The ... hot and say nasty things, and again I'm obliged to trot out all my ...

... people understood their own interests and realized their own strength. Pavel had a sense of injury and disappointment as to his own power. His head ached; he felt desolate. Hitherto, whenever he pictured the triumph of his truth, he ...