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... Sister Fessue said to Sister Confite: "Providence takes a visible care of me; you know how I love my sparrow; he would ... the sparrow of Sister Fessue to live an instant longer than it would naturally have lived, it would have violated ...

... as they were ages of intellectual repression. The debt of each to his neighbor was as little felt as the debt of all to the common faculties and intelligence. Men owed nothing to man, but everything to the gods. All the social feeling and ...

... God bound and imprisoned in heaven what Boniface bound on earth." A famous ... character and behavior of St. Peter, it must be acknowledged that Paul is ... sheet descending from the four corners of it, which was filled with creeping ...

... Sister Fessue said to Sister Confite: "Providence takes a visible care of me; you know how I love my sparrow; he would have been dead if I had not said nine ave-marias to obtain his cure. God has restored my sparrow to life; thanks to ...

... 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 ...

... all! Let our relations be a closed chapter in your life. You can do better ... of your graces, your pretty little ways, the elegancies of your life, and ... love to drag you down, to take the beauty and charm from your life, to fill it ...

... portal at present in disuse. He needed no explanation of its condition. Fire and battle were familiars of his. The bell tolled on. The sound, so passing sweet elsewhere, seemed to issue from the yawning portal, leaving him to fancy the ...

... Life's Little Ironies, A Group of Noble Dames, The Dynasts, Moments of ... postman added, 'I was originally a mason by trade: no offence to you if you be a ... the peculiar character of the sound emitted by the falling drops. Sometimes ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... principle and yang the male principle. The sage is the one who knows how to keep yin and yang in equilibrium and to live in harmony with the changing circumstances of life30. Another example is the Native Americans who saw their lands ...

... 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 ...

Adventure Classics, Sea Tales & Philosophical Novels, Including Moby-Dick ... Max's shore clothes, all washed, plaited, and ironed, and ready to put on at ... Max, not thirty I days previous. So long as we laid in port, Sally visited the ...

... Sissy faltered. They were afraid to look; but they did examine it, and found no mark of violence, inside or out. It ... Heaven, not these dreadful cries! Think of Stephen, think of Stephen, think of Stephen!' By an earnest repetition of this ...

Charles Dickens. Chapter Nine . Town and Todger's Table of Contents Surely there never was , in any other borough ... means of escape might possibly present themselves in their own good time , but that to anticipate them was hopeless .

... read aloud; and would dine at the castle, by way of keeping up the vein of thought. I was taking a meal there, one day, at a rather late hour, in the public room. There was no other company but one man, who sat enjoying his pint of port ...

... Gandul, where were the remains of another Moorish castle, with its ruined tower, a nestling place for storks, and commanding a view over a vast campina or fertile plain, with the mountains of Ronda in the distance. These castles were ...

... Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems, Biographia Literaria... Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “In truth, he's no Beauty!” cry'd Moll, Poll, and Tab; But they all of them own'd He'd the gift of ...

... Lapham, rising as the boat drew near the wharf of the final landing, “there's going to be an awful accident on these boats. Just look at that jam.” He meant the people thickly packed on the pier, and under strong restraint of locks and ...

... R. C. What do you call religion? Old Gent. By religion, I mean the worshipping and paying homage to some supreme being; some God, known or unknown is not to the case, so it be but to something counted supreme. R. C. It is true, madam ...

... 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 ...

... doom. For a moment the sight of her terror made even the Wanderer afraid. What was the horror she beheld in this ... shield with the blazon of the White Bull, on the golden helm, whose visor was down so that it quite hid his eyes and his ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...