The Complete Works: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Articles, Essays, Travel Sketches and Memoirs

... 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 ...

... 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.

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 .

... of renewed hope for Gregory ? How could she confess such a weakness to her ... love you , " he protested . " Love me ; -yes , with what sort of love ? But ... playing at love , this would be an insult . " Then she saw her old friend ...

... 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 ...

... speak French. And what is the reason for this extraordinary caution? Here it is: — ”If the person whom we suspect is really guilty, circumstances may have occurred to put him on his guard — and, in that case, he is a man to hesitate at ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... skip. Dr. Johnson, in one of his violent assertions, declared that “the man who was afraid of anything must be a scoundrel, sir.” By no means binding myself to this opinion— though admitting that the man who is afraid of a newspaper ...

... Jim , Mars Tom , hain't you ? " " Well , I didn't think so , Jim , but you try your hand at fixing it , and let's see . ' 11 So Jim reckoned it wouldn't be no more than fair if me and Tom done a tenth apiece . Tom he turned his back to ...

Will the planned entertainment fan the flames of desire for Emma and Logan or smother them forever? **Please note that this is the third book in the three book “Sex In The Office” series.

... Bobby (inventing): You roll down to Rio. It's wonderful. Then — then you roll down to Buenos Aires. They have monkeys — no, they have coffee. Monkeys and coffee. Pat (mock serious): All rolling around, I suppose. Did you stay there long?

... Poole's Process and brought up with unrivalled speed in Blinker's Cars ; but not at the moment when riotous employees were engaged in dipping Poole repeatedly in a large vat at the factory ; or in the quieter conditions of the country ...

... playing," and he would call the governess to take his hand from him and all three of the children would have then to play together a game none of them would have thought of beginning, and they had to keep on going for often he would ...

... 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 ...

... điền , đổi thửa , tạo điều kiện cơ giới hoá sản xuất , đồng thời thực hiện ... hành tiết kiệm chi tiêu , tập trung ngân sách hỗ trợ cho việc khôi phục và ... văn hoá thể thao , giáo dục , đào tạo ... nhằm cung cấp nguồn lao động có chất ...

... 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 ...

... I fed it, shaving by shaving, and sliver by sliver, till at last it was snapping and crackling as it laid hold of the smaller chips and sticks. To be cast away on an island had not entered into my calculations, so we were without a ...

... glass cases on either side , and she gave scarcely a glance at any of those ... under a glass bell ; the governors ' portraits ; the stuffed elephant ... bell tinkled and the curtain rose . As the play went on , the rich jacqueminot - red ...

Will the would-be lovers consummate their desire as planned? Or will they get caught loving each other in the elevator? **Please note that this is the second book in the three book “Sex In The Office” series.

The series is available as individual stories or as a collection titled "To Play With The Fae - Fae Lovers Collection, Volume 1." The collection contains "Stranded," "Siobhan's Desire," and "Sister Mary Does A Faery.

... the Short - Time . I first saw them , twelve or fifteen years ago . But since the introduction of the Short - Time system it has been proved here that eighteen hours a week of book - learning are more profitable than thirty- six , and ...