author: mayne reid

... danger they were desirous to avoid ; for , once seen by the savages , there would not be the slightest chance of escape ... dangerous denizens of the malocca . ―― Having determined on this , they drew their craft into the darkest corner ...

... danger they were desirous to avoid ; for , once seen by the savages , there would not be the slightest chance of escape ... dangerous denizens of the malocca . - Having determined on this , they drew their craft into the darkest corner ...

... dangerous denizens, and Leon might bathe with safety, as soon as he got well; and over the fish-dinner they could now laugh at the adventures both of Leon and the electrified mule. Chapter Twenty Two. The Cinchona-Trees. In about two ...

... return , car- rying a chest between the two of them . Draga also carried a rolled up piece of cloth and an extra quiver in his free hand . " Look what we found , " Ahleage said , setting the chest down and throwing the lid back . Inside ...

... cuidar esas repugnan- tes aves lo mejor que podamos , y no solo cuidarlas , sino velar por ellas , como si fuese fuego ... la conservacion de estas dos cigüe- ñas ; depende de ello nuestra salvacion ; si muriesen ó se escaparan , si ...

Jules Verne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Jeffery Farnol, Randall Parrish, Jack London, Victor Hugo ... Salvadore, St. Sebastian, and Pernambuca. St. Salvadore in the Bahia los todos Santos, is an Archbishoprick and Seat ...

Novels, Tales and Poems: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Tell-Tale Heart ... key against another. ('Take care of the wards, Mr. Jasper.') 'Or whether ... answer. Mr. Sapsea then proposes a hit at backgammon, which, seasoned with his own ...

Novels, Tales and Poems: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Tell-Tale Heart ... key, “did she not insinuate that charge — then, I suppose, in a state of ... Answer.” I hung my head. “Yes or no?” “Well, perhaps so — yes,” I faltered, and burst into ...

... garrotero . No , my hands are free . They shall not be bound again while life remains . I shall yield only to death itself . " As the captive muttered these thoughts he sat down upon the banqueta , and hurriedly untied the thongs that ...

... Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Guy Boothby, Jane Austen, Mayne Reid, John Meade ... naked. Did it so stand naked before him too? She was shocked that she should ...

... soul is the instinct that leads the soul from the seen to the unseen, from ... not die forever, my human love soared beyond its brief trial of terror and ... night, the calm reason of Faber would strip of their magical seemings; the Eyes ...

... Poe, Jeffery Farnol, Randall Parrish, Jack London, Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Walter Scott, Ralph ... Salvadore , St. Sebastian , and Pernambuca . St. Salvadore in the Bahia los todos Santos , is an Archbishoprick and ...

... breakers . I look to the eastward , and behold a summer sea that seems to invite navi- gation . But where are the ... dark , tower - like ob- ject looms up against the horizon . It is the smoke of a steamer - sign of advanced ...

... Christina Rossetti, Tobias Smollett, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Edward ... Chords with epic fire: But farewell, Hero! farewell, King! Your deeds my ... hurt the Writer. In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose ...

... Sweeney Todd should return before he could leave the place, paid no ... sea. In common with all boys of his age, who know nothing whatever of the ... sea!' ejaculated Tobias. 'Yes, I will go to sea!' As he spoke those words, he passed out ...

... Sweeney Todd... Charles Dickens, Friedrich Schiller, Oscar Wilde, Robert ... sea, and never a bit of canvas left except one storm-staysail. There were tattered ... to the sea; and then I looked to starboard, and there was the same white ...

... Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Guy Boothby, Jane Austen, Mayne Reid, John Meade ... naked. I did not recognise in him any one whom I knew. A figure, robust and ...

... Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Guy Boothby, Jane Austen, Mayne Reid, John Meade ... naked feet , till she reached the adjoining room where Everhard lay . Amid ...

... me inducia á correr el mundo , me hicieron buscar con más ánsia que nunca los medios de realizarla . La obstinacion y la terquedad eran entónces mis principales defectos , y á despecho de los consejos y amonestaciones de mi padre y de ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Guy Boothby, Jane Austen, Algernon Blackwood, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... Naked May Be In Rags Table of Contents The ...

... any special rudeness just yet ; and if we can keep them to their good behaviour for twelve hours I ask no more . ” " Why do you say twelve hours ? " " Read that . " It was the note she had just written ; and , soon as the other had run ...

... no mercy!” “You will when you're asked for it.” “You needn't ask. When you see my sword out, you'll hear the cry, 'No Quarter!'” “When I hear that, I'll cry it too.” Not another word passed between them, Reginald wheeling round and ...

... Dick ! " Ho ! ho ! " cried the latter , dancing over the ground like one who had gone frantic from receiving news of some unexpected fortune . " Ho ! ho ! You it be , Muster Henry Hardin ' ! Who would ' a expected to find you here among ...

Reproduction of the original: Popular Adventure Tales by Captain Mayne Reid

... hunter for his long and lonely vigil . 66 Torch hunting , " or " fire - hunting , " as it is some- times termed , is another method of capturing the fallow deer . It is done by carrying a torch in a very dark night through woods where ...

... hunter for his long and lonely vigil. “Torch-hunting,” or “fire-hunting,” as it is sometimes termed, is another method of capturing the fallow deer. It is done by carrying a torch in a very dark night through woods where deer are known ...

... Sweeney Todd come by these articles, except by the murder of their owners?' This, indeed, seemed but too probable a supposition, and the more especially so, as in a further part of this bureau a great quantity of apparel was found by ...

... no bull had yet appeared, although as he was running around the rock twice ... high, and it required all his strength to raise himself up. His attention was so occupied in the endeavour, that he was fairly upon the top ... top of the boulder ...

... no bull had yet appeared, although as he was running around the rock twice ... high, and it required all his strength to raise himself up. His attention was so occupied in the endeavour, that he was fairly upon the top ... top of the boulder ...

... corpse wood in a body . We had to cross the rivulet . Seguin was some paces in advance , as we rode forward to it . I saw his horse sudden . ' ly balk , stumble over the bank , and roll headlong into the water ! The rest of us went ...

... origin is lost in the gray dawn of the past, and who have dwelt in their ... grim beasts that haunted it. The fisher's village lay some distance to the south ... dawn, the sky shone blue and clear; the rising sun made jewels of the dripping ...

... be still wandering upon the plain . Both the eye and the ear were thus warned of the threatening danger ; and , as the people moved around the blazing fires , their shadows , magnified to gigantic proportions , were projected far out ...

... LOVE - SPELL THE Countenance of the myal - man had assumed an air of solemnity that betokened some serious determination ; and the mulatta felt a presenti- ment that , in return for his services , something ... LOVE - SPELL . The Love-spell,

... battle which practically ended the war . A second episode of a similar character , but with a more fortunate conclusion , occurred about four years later . It grew out of another war , which , happily for us , was not on our borders ...