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...Vol. 1: TripStone hates to kill her gods but she must feed her people. An accomplished hunter in the Masari village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increases when he shelter...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had...

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... was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town of O---- (it was in the year 1842) two women were sitting at an open window; one was about fifty, the other an old lady of seventy....

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

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...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...of the knocks and repeated bell-peals which assured all those who had ever listened in the servants’ hall to prognostications of a possible night atta... ...of outrages on his character in a Court of Law, where he must of necessity listen and lock his boiling replies within his indignant bosom. ‘Now, Sewis... ... face from a fit of angry coughing. ‘I won’t; but stop, put down that boy; listen to me, you Richmond! I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I ‘ll—if you swear ... ...fair Persians. He would fre- quently ejaculate that he resembled the Three Calendars in more respects than one. To divert me during my recovery from m...

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...Excerpt: Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above all, he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the fraternal enemies, the hall and shrubbery of Durrisdeer,...

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... Publication The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ations, newspapers, and horrible weather — wor- ried by all this, I worked listlessly and ineffectively . I was writ- ing “A History of Railways”; I h... ...s! that was only what I imag- ined. When my wife talked aloud downstairs I listened in- tently to her voice, though I could not distinguish one word. ... ..., and energy .” “Yes, promptitude…” repeated Ivan Ivanitch in a drowsy and listless voice, as though he were dropping asleep. “Only one can’t do anyth... ...t the fields and the forest. Gardening books and the agricultural hints in calendars were his delight, his favourite spiritual sustenance; he enjoyed ...

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...eritie. For your Fortune, and Merit both, have been Eminent. And you have planted Things, that are like to last. I doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other workes, have beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes....

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...THE ESSAYS 5 ?Of Truth 7 ?Of Death 9 ?Of Unity in Religion 12 ?Of Revenge 13 ?Of Adversity 14 ?Of Simulation and Dissimulation 17 ?Of Parents and Children 18 ?Of Marriage and Single Life 20 ?Of Envy 24 ?Of Love 25 ?Of Great Place 28 ?Of Bo...

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...ion Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... .... While he tried to follow his son’s train of thought, he went through the list of odds and ends of plant needed by a country business, drawing David ... ... of it?—the origi- nal Double Liegeois sold better than the most sumptuous calendars. David would soon see the importance of these old-fashioned thing... ... have just re- ceived from Paris?” He drew a tiny volume from his pocket. “Listen!” And David read, as a poet can read, first Andre de Chenier’s Idyll... ...tches of color on the cheek-bone were faded and hardened to a brick-red by listless days and a certain amount of ailing health. His imagination fasten...

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... a vast distance from the metropolis, she had positively no friends on her list of visitors who resided in this great capital; secondly, and far above... ... to find much leisure for answering individual questions. Some, how- ever, listened with a marked air of attention to my earnest request for the circu... ...ave urged me to abstain from such acts of violence, too evidently useless, listlessly and scarcely know- ing what I was in quest of, I strayed by acci... ...ears? Do the seventy weeks of the prophet mean weeks in the sense of human calendars? Already the Psalms, (xc) already St. Peter, (2d Epist.) warn us ...

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...their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... like three years, and she understood now why the girls who had homes made calendars, and checked off the days. No school term had ever seemed so long... .... Oh, yes, we know,” interrupted Allen; “Janet does not think anyone worth listening to that hasn’t got a whole alphabet tacked behind his name.” “Jan... ...rs. Brownlow. “He knows how describe as few people do.” “Did you see Janet listening to him,” said her grandmother, “with her brows pulled down and he... ...hy to do it,” was traced by his fingers. “It is not developed enough to be listened to by any- one. Keep it for the fit one of the boys. Religion, mor...