author: joseph conrad

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... a little, there she was again, white and shining and beautiful, and I sprang into her arms! That was perfect ... little thing; but if there was a moon she would ... pinch of delicate pink dust in the hole. I put my finger in, to feel it, and ...

... white napkins upon her arm, she remained to serve them. They dipped their ... citadel for the garrison and military headquarters for the governor. The ... paper. He sat upon a purple cloth instead of a saddle, and that, and a bridle with ...

... portrait for the sign of The Betrothed's Head . Or Pussy's portrait . One or the other . ' ' I am not accountable for Mr. Crisparkle's mentioning the matter to me , quite openly , ' Neville begins . ' No ; that's true ; you are not ...

... GRILLE OVER WINDOWS West 48th . Street Benson's body was reclining in the chair in an attitude so natural that one almost expected him to turn to us and ask why we were intruding upon his privacy . His head was resting against the ...

... Pross and Mr. Cruncher had discharged the office of purveyors ; the former carrying the money ; the latter , the basket . Every afternoon at about the time when the public lamps were lighted , they fared forth on this duty , and made ...

... 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 ...

... gold and plate with her into the house . The cellars were full of wine ... chords of the guitar , and sing to the music , not always Danish melodies ... house of Borreby , where the splendid forest of oaks still flourished . The young men ...

... Montgomery, C. S. Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft ... chords left as by vast composers — you choruses, You formless, free ... midnight late, bending me powerless, Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you ...

... 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 ...

Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, War and Peace, Art of War, Faust ... red squirrel, coursing down the nearest bough, was particularly familiar and ... black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never ...

... Jane Austen, Herman Melville, George Eliot, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Benito Pérez Galdós, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Kalidasa, Kenneth Grahame, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather ...

... 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 ...

... come after me! ... I am the rat- catcher! ... Let me pass, with my rats! ..." And the ... hear us! ... And HE will hear us, too! ... And, as you know him, we shall ... siren's voice!" "But then, what are we here for?" asked Raoul, in a ...

... not—profound apologies I suppose. Anyway its got to be cleared up. Manitou ... ready. It's hard to believe that the Hun has so terrorised the Swiss ... book, strapped and buckled the cover. "Exit Sir W. Blint," he said, not flippantly. "I ...

... 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 ...

... 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.

... 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 .

... 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 .

... Ebearing 10 Keep nearly in the middle but more to starboard – St[arboar]d side islands divided by very narrow channels on. [50]. IIIN port app[a]r[en]tly one island only– 15 Usual app[earan]ce of dense vegetation dow[n] to water's edge ...

... 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 .

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

Leaves of Grass, Siddhartha, Middlemarch, The Jungle, Macbeth, Moby-Dick, A Study in ... ham with pickle in a few seconds. And yet, in spite of this, there would be ... boneless hams,” which were all the odds and ends of pork stuffed into ...

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