THE CALL OF THE WILD WEST - Ultimate Western Collection: 175+ Novels & Short Stories in One Volume

... shadow of the mesa wall. He saw one of them step out into the moonlight, lean back and then straighten up suddenly, his arm going above his head. The silence was so intense that Red could faintly hear the falling rope as it struck the ...

... Irving, Willa Cather, O. Henry, Grace Livingston Hill, Charles King, Charles ... attack, and having found Pathfinder's canoe, had only succeeded, at that ... Pathfinder,” said he, “we must strike, and that will entitle us to receive ...

... fetish words of the dead priest, the reverence which an all-powerful and ... smoke stole straight up in the breathless air. Amazed, the people stood and saw the ... smoking fiercely and felt himself a civiliser. But the boy seemed to feel ...

... 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 ...

... effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting. We may continue the reading of a prose ...

The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie ... tree as if conscious of the danger that was impending overhead. Perceiving that they were ... feat was no sooner accomplished than the woman resumed her sway; Judith ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Ghip-Ghi-siz-zle. Can you remember it?" "I can 'member the 'sizzle,'" said the boy, "but I'm 'fraid the Gwip—Grip—Glip—" "Ghip-Ghi-siz-zle" repeated the officer slowly. "I want you to remember my name, because if you are going to live ...

... law. The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralise about it. He did not even think the ...

... CHAPTER I WHY VROUW BOTMAR TELLS HER TALE CHAPTER II HOW SUZANNE FOUND RALPH KENZIE CHAPTER III THE STORY ... GREAT TREK CHAPTER XXVI HOW GAASHA BROUGHT GOOD LUCK CHAPTER XXVII SWART PIET SETS A SNARE CHAPTER XXVIII THE COMING OF THE IMPI ...

... window seat , sufficiently near to each other to nudge the points of their ... chords and runs with which he could not quarrel but which he had heard too ... chords hauntingly reminiscent of its full vigor that seemed still to linger in ...

... 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 ...

... Tab had come by train, and there was a long walk to the station. He stayed to the very last moment, and then had to ... run, and then only caught the train as it was pulling out of the station. The inexorable and constitutionally discontented ...

... bloodhound out into the paddock in front of the house and fastened it to a ... hound, which immediately settled down trustfully at the foot of the stake. He and the brothers ... belly, until at last it lay fully exposed, its head between its.

... Sword of Fate; Vessel of Life, through whom all Life flows, to whom it again is gathered; Recorder of Things Done ... dark cloud hanging over the Altar in and out of which a fiery Serpent climbed. Then all the Spirits clad in light fell upon ...

... amethyst. Involuntarily they halted. Alison pointed to lights a mile down ... frontier. Let's stop here for supper, and have our last look at Evallonia ... brave man,” he told himself. “The thing about you is that you're too much of a ...

... love your brother; I love Frank Gresham; I love him quite as well, quite as ... husband as you wish to have Mr Oriel.” “But, Mary, you cannot marry him ... ways and my ways must be different.” Beatrice was startled, and, for a time ...

... 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 ...

Sherlock Holmes Series, The Lost World, Mystery of Cloomber, The Poison Belt, The Land of Mists ... life, my all. I would give my life for you willingly, gladly—every beat of ... I can love with all my heart. Oh the difference it makes.

... forest life. Terror, wood-craft, and humour could not be more felicitously intermingled. The reader, while kept under the spell of the main theme of the story, experiences all the charm of an open-air life in the great forest of Villers ...

... better right , if long and faithful service entitles a man to a furlough , " returned ... Pathfinder is in the habit of letting prowlers around the fort beat a ... mercy to me than to another ? I feel , Pathfinder , that I owe you my life ...

... maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never again found the Rue d'Auseil. These maps have not been modern maps alone, for I know that names change. I have, on the contrary, delved deeply into all the antiquities of the place ...

... spade (without telling David) or David gives him the logs to saw (without telling Maggie). We have given James a longer time to make his move than our kind friends in front will give him, but in the meantime something has been happening.

... advice to "live as domestic a life as far as possible," to "have but two hours' intellectual life a day," and "never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again" as long as I lived. This was in 1887. I went home and obeyed those directions for ...