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... Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha, and every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's disciples, the silently begging ones. Near the town was Gotama's favourite place to stay, the grove of Jetavana ...

... fast by both arms, lest he should do some mad act, he said to her, “Infamous girl, misguided maiden, whither in thy blindness and madness ... life on this barren strand if thou dost leave him.” All this Zoraida heard ... spent, as we were ...

... sea- monsters. But the boy understood that it was the sea-trolls, who had gathered around the island and intended to crawl up on it, to fight with the land-trolls who lived there. And those on the land were probably afraid, for he saw ...

... light as a feather right off . All my troubles was gone . I went to looking out sharp for a light , and sort of singing to myself . By and by one showed . Jim sings out : " We's safe , Huck , we's safe ! Jump up and crack yo ' heels ...

... 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 ...

E-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience at least once in their life: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie) The Mysterious Affair at ...

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... dawn he too was grey and grim. One monk alone had Modred kept, A youth with hair of golden-red, Who never once had sighed or wept, Not once had bowed his proud young head. Broken he lay, and bound with thongs. Thus had he seen his ...

... Lead the way ! " They went in from the yard and up to the fourth storey . The staircase got darker and darker as they went up . It was nearly eleven o'clock and although in summer ... sheet . Behind it probably was the bed . There was nothing ...

... Scarecrow said to his friends : " Congratulate me . I am going to Oz to get my brains at last . When I return I shall be as other men are . " " I have always liked you as you were , " said Dorothy simply . " It is kind of you to like a ...

... Mole yawn , and yet she ought to be accustomed to the social charms of the friends of the house . I am frightened of ... jokes . On this particular day , whether or not by reason of some affectation on her part , she proved cruel to bores .

... transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent . He was afraid that Thornton would pass out of his life as Perrault and Francois and the Scotch half - breed had passed out ...

... full armour to bestride him . As a cow stands lowing over her first calf , even so did yellow - haired Menelaus ... dauntless of all creatures , than are the proud sons of Panthous . Yet Hyperenor did not see out the days of his youth when he ...

... Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, Henry James, Louisa May ... Gregorio and the beauty of Ana Felix were the admiration of all who were ... Gregorio, and Don Gregorio at no great length, but in a few words, in which he showed ...

... Sax Rohmer, Alexandre Dumas, Washington Irving, Maurice Leblanc, Erskine ... Hello, Mr. Winterslip," he said. "What do you think of our police force now ... Hello, Jennison," Greene said. "I'm mighty sorry about this—" "You ought to be ...

... Sax Rohmer, Alexandre Dumas, Washington Irving, Maurice Leblanc, Erskine ... Mr. Saladine?" "I've been thinking about Mr. Saladine. But I can't get ... Hello, Mr. Saladine," she said. "This is Mr. Winterslip, of Boston." "Ah, yeth ...

... Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Victor ... Gregorio and the beauty of Ana Felix were the admiration of all who were ... Gregorio, and Don Gregorio at no great length, but in a few words, in which he ...

... spells is still firmly believed in among us), and that this could be clearly ... little German garden. With a faint rustle of her starched petticoats, she ... white cap, which gave still more acerbity to the sharp features of her swarthy ...

... psychological subtleties into which he could not have entered , if he had the least conscious and malicious prejudice against the prisoner . But there are things which are even worse , even more fatal in such cases , than the most ...

... 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 ...

The World's Finest Mysteries by the World's Greatest Authors Mark Twain, Edgar ... ugliest fiend of hell, leering at you, distorted with all the marks of vice ... breast, the savant suddenly touched my arm, and pointing to the dead man's ...

... ugliest fiend of hell, leering at you, distorted with all the marks of vice and shame. That is what I saw, that is ... breast, the savant suddenly touched my arm, and pointing to the dead man's face, now frightfully distorted, whispered ...

... ugliest fiend of hell, leering at you, distorted with all the marks of vice and shame. That is what I saw, that is ... breast, the savant suddenly touched my arm, and pointing to the dead man's face, now frightfully distorted, whispered ...

... dance , will come The sound of tabour and of drum . Again to spouse and realm restored , Girt by his friends , the ... stolen wife Dearer to Ráma than his life , Chief when he saw the Lord of Night Rise slowly o'er the eastern height ...

... timber for felling, lent money at interest, and altogether was a sharp old ... deaf; his wife Aksinya, a handsome woman with a good figure, who wore a hat ... deaf, and who evidently knew very little about female beauty. The old man had ...

Leaves of Grass, Siddhartha, Middlemarch, The Jungle, Macbeth, Moby-Dick, A Study in Scarlet... Jules Verne, Lewis ... Tabaqui , the Dish - licker - and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief , and ...

... Come to your senses , young man , before it's too late . Two million are ... free at any moment will poison your entire existence . I feel sorry for you ... sheet music , wine and the rest , by asking for it in a note , in any quantity ...

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400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated) ... family feud against Trenglos and his granddaughter . “ What does the girl ... questions as to his being yet alive . The father , as he went , said little ...

... got bone enough to be one of 'em. Well, son, lucky you landed here. And you're welcome as long as you'll stay, and that'll be ten days anyway before he's on his feet. Come on in, Kate. Meet Jack Chandler. This is my daughter. Put that ...

... answer: it means one who understands things without any other body telling him what they mean. God makes a few such now and then to teach the rest of us. "Do you like riddles?" asked Mr. Raymond, turning over the leaves of his own book ...

... Morris, Anthony Trollope, Marcel Prévost, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter ... James Russell Lowell, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Whitcomb ... You'll find it is serious , fast enough . WHAT are we going to DO ? As you know , my ...

This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: The Rise of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime ...

... Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, F.K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin, H. H. Munro, Ivan Goncharov. CHAPTER. 3. Peasant. Women. Who. Have. Faith. Table of ...