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...Based on the author's own life, this book tells the story of little sister. The youngest of eleven, she is unwanted in the beginning. The brother who loved her most, and whom she loved most in the world, is Laddie. She is almost lonely, and it's hard for her to study, so her comfort is...

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...was edited by Charles Dickens. The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well. The book has little in the way of plot and is more a series of episodes in the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two spinster sisters. The major event in the story is the return to Cranford of their long-lo...

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...were many fairies too, dazzling the exquisite land as far, and farther than eyes can see. The loveliest fairy in the fairyland, was Eleena. She had a little brother whom she loved very much. He was her best friend and companion. Wherever she went, her brother accompanied her....

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...yarachchi ISBN: 955-1090-01-2 Book Ref: T/07/126 This book is dedicated to all brothers & sisters Printed by C First Edition - 2007 Candleena Far abo... ...than eyes can see. The loveliest fairy in the fairyland, was Eleena. She had a little brother whom she loved very much. He was her best friend and com... ...es can see. The loveliest fairy in the fairyland, was Eleena. She had a little brother whom she loved very much. He was her best friend and companion.... ... loved very much. He was her best friend and companion. Wherever she went, her brother accompanied her. She liked to fly far up into the sky with him ... ...s and the beings who lived there. One day, as they were flying in the sky, her brother said, My sister, I feel very hungry. Hungry? she asked. We... .... There was no one around, and a strange feeling came over, frightening them a little. My little brother, she whispered. I feel something strange i... ...huddered with horror and pain. Oh, please, please don t hurt my sister, her little brother begged, but the wizard pushed him roughly away. This fo... ...ssion will be punished. Please, sir, I only wanted to pick one fruit for my little brother, who is very hungry. Please accept my apology and let us... ... her mercilessly, by the wings and dragged her through the forest. 5 Eleena s little brother stumbled after the wizard, crying. Please don t hurt my...

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...a strange aurora-like effect, but seemingly a deliberate one. As they go out to investigate, they meet Goodwin's old friends Martin and Ruth Ventnor, brother and sister scientists. The two are besieged by Persians as Darius III led when Alexander of Macedon conquered them more than two thousand years ago. The group is saved by a magnificent woman they get to know as Norhal...

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...Clover is the fourth book in the popular What Katy Did series. After Katy's wedding, the focus shifts to her little sister Clover. Their brother Phil encounters serious illness in the winter, and Dr. Carr sends him with Clover to the mountains of Colorado. Clarence Page, their naughty cousin from the other books, lives nearby. He is...

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...Peter and Wendy tells the classic story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. (Introduction modified from...

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...spectable, upstanding, if not particularly bright younger son with new wife, rather expects to inherit a title, since his vicious and dissolute elder brother, the Marquis of Brotherton, who lives in Italy, shows no signs of settling down and producing heirs. Then comes a thunderbolt in the form of a letter from the Marquis suddenly claiming that he has, late in life, marri...

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...f her friends near the Cinder Pond. (Advertising material from the publisher, 1915)More than one girl who reads this story will envy Jeanne her queer little home out on the end of the old dock in Lake Superior. It must indeed have been a fascinating place to live, but Jeanne's father, a gentleman himself, wanted her to grow up to be a lady, so she was sent away to be train...

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...arriage with a 'handsome young man, well-placed in life, with affable and charming personality'. ……….. At Kohlis, The marriage of Sumit, Shilpa’s brother, was fixed for February 25. Prabhat and his mother arrived at Shilpa's parental home only a day before marriage of her only brother and Shilpa's mother also took a serious note of the pronouncement made by Prabhat and...

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... to conceal the money from others, as she was shoving that currency note just picked from the ground, into her undergarment below her shirt. When her brother asked for the reason for concealing the currency note, she denied the very existence of any such note there. ……. Almost at the same time, Pipasha Gulhati, sitting in an arm-chair, at her home, is busy analyzing...

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...The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret, becomes friends with his mother Ruth Wilcox. Ruth's most prized personal possession is her family house at Howards End. She wishes that Margaret could live there, as she feels that it migh...

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...ggested the latter, but I didn’t care. Granted, it wasn’t the giant teddy bear I’d spent twenty bucks trying to win, but Sherry seemed happy with her little plush pink prize nonetheless. She squeezed my hand, and I smiled. I rocked the cart back and forth with my legs. “Hey! Stop it,” Sherry said, twining her fingers through my hair. “But you told me you loved it when...

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...ep breath he shouldered the backpack that had been hidden in a corner for weeks, let himself out of the shed, crossed the back lawn and tapped on his brother’s open window. Hylas appeared, rubbing at sleepy eyes. ‘Fidel! What’s the matter?’ ‘I’m off.’ ‘Now? But you…’ ‘Shhh! You'll wake Mum. I just wanted to say goodbye and tell you I love you.’ ‘Where are you goi...

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... to do? 5 Bart’s enterprise 6 Arnold Jurgenz 7 Bart and Robert 8 Lance 9 Luck 10 Arnold’s Gym 11 Natural Fitness 12 Hylas 13 Brothers in Brisbane 14 Hylas Meets Natural Fitness 15 And Hylas Makes Five 16 JECHIS 17 Lance Returns 18 Disintegration 19 Inspection 20 Plans 21 The Administrator 22 Ciao Natural Fitness 23 Peter and Jon ...

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... surrounding rainforest. The leaner and taller of the two snapped his phone shut with a sigh. ‘That was Lindoro. The Research Institute is no more. Brother Dominic has just left so we have about half an hour.’ ‘Half an hour. You say it as if it were a lifetime. You’re always so positive, Sebastian.’ Jarek’s sigh was even deeper than his friend’s. ‘I know we’ve been exp...

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...street lamps that refracted glaringly. The three of them still remained as little conscious of the moon or, dependent on the limitation of their eyes,... ... voice. She was pleased to be once again hearing anything--even the least little unenlightening fact-about their trip. She smiled. After all, it wa... ...ded with conversation. "I just mean that I'm nobody important. I paint a little. I'm going to Montreal for that reason." The taxi driver was retice... ... not remember the name of it: Bangkae, Bangplad, Bang-something. He paid little attention to what his mistress said. Her voice often seemed the str... ...child. It was a strange composite: at one moment appearing a bit like his brother, Kazem, and at one moment like the youngest of his elder brothers, ... ...e during their time of mourning. Carrying suitcases and bags with his brothers and a woman of Chinese complexion, he sensed the rapacious discord... ...the motorcycle skid and floundered onto one side. Staring down as his brothers, his owners, pulled the invisible leash, he knew that they condemn... ...ng dynamism that most lured his eyes. The city was fetid as his older brother's shoes in the back of his girl friend's car (the car that had brou... ...d Kazem. "You're the one who wanted to move here and so I said, 'Yes, little brother. Let me fulfill your wishes and needs. It is my duty as an...

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...into my journey, and already having second thoughts. New things are always a little scary at first, and my decision to leave home gave me pause to ... ... she didn’t think I was actually going to go? Father’s reaction had been a little different. At first, he was dead set against my leaving. After ... ...ough, once he could see there was no talking me out of it, he seemed to get a little more comfortable with it. It would be another fifty or so mil... ...her about directions. Story goes, they were on their way to Oregon, but got a little off the trail. To this day, my father maintains it wasn’t his f... ..., wheat and barley, but mostly potatoes. Seems they like the moisture in our little valley. Call Me Montana – The Beginning 3 My sister Mary ... ... followed Amos into the station and ordered a round of waters. “Where’s your brother? I thought this was a two man operation,” observed McVey. “... ... of puttering in the sink, Amos excused himself and went outside to help his brother clean rabbits. The younger of McVey’s men spoke up. “What th... ...men. He moved over to look out the window, but didn’t see either of the Carey brothers in the yard. “Mighty quiet out there. Maybe I’ll go for a li... ...stle behind the station. He walked around the corner just in time to see both brothers mounting their horses. The rabbits were still in one piece on...

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...n and their neighbors would be dialing those infamous three digits, Jury's brothers in blue would be popping by for a visit, and Marsh would lose his ... ...ry much..." Therese cleared her throat, gathered herself enough to sound a little more clever and professional. "When do I start?" "Next week, bright ... ...on, he was laid up sick and in bed at home. Therese had given him a call a little after the exhibition hall had closed for the day, greeted with the s... ...s fingers atop the rich cherry veneer. Or better yet, maybe he was doing a little overtime himself. Not too outlandish a possibility knowing him. Mayb... ...her out or on his way over to drag her home for her "surprise." Probably a little of both. Therese pushed herself away from the computer desk, stood a... ... Maybe she could have Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 35 handled it a little better. Maybe it would have saved her and Jury from the alienation. ... ...trusive in a corner of the room after her latest break-up with yet another brother who couldn't handle a serious-minded sister and didn't want to take... ...to her left, handful of candy corns poised at her mouth as she noticed the brother who had insinuated himself beside her. She gawked, feeling like a b... ...ad confided his frustration with and disappointment in his wayward younger brother. "He's a good kid, just doesn't have any direction, you know?" Ther...

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... your brain,” Mitch said. “But it’s my favorite hat! Besides, I think it makes me look a little like Indiana Jones,” she said smiling and cracking ... ... he had found numerous ancient tombs, and where he was now focusing his own efforts. Very little had been found in the ancient cellar he left Mitch a... ...d off. Fessel, still trailing behind his boss, looked back at Mitch and Alex, sneering. “Little rat…” Alex whispered under her breath, glaring back ... ...My clothes are filled with sand and my back is aching.” She sat up and tried to stretch a little. “This has been one crappy day.” “Didn’t you menti... ...d. Her mood had darkened and she had grown quiet. It had been a long day, very long, with little to show for their efforts. She wondered if they eve... ...y love, but Alaj has chosen not to attend,” Traeus replied, deeply dis- appointed that his brother, Prince Alaj and his wife, Princess Zazmaria, would... ... husband, “What did Alaj say his reasons are this time?” “He said that since I, the elder brother and King, will be there, his presence is not requi... ... The prince, who was just about to turn fourteen years old, was the youngest of the three brothers in the Royal Family. “Where is Alaj?” Amoni asked... ... “Come, we do not want to be late,” Traeus said as he took the hands of both his wife and brother. He worried about how all this affected Amoni, but ...

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...et in Gavin’s handwriting. He read the words, “If I must marry again, Father, well why not to my little, auburn haired cousin, Helen. She will do ju... ...en stood in the doorway, with flushed cheeks and shining eyes, displaying all the excitement of a little child bursting to reveal some exciting piec... ... devastated by his wife’s untimely demise and welcomed Rosita’s love and care for his motherless, little girl. The Spanish woman remembered clearly ... ...s had told me that the forest is inhabited by trolls and witches, who come out at night to devour little children who had strayed from their beds.’ ... ...s he lifted her wet, dangling curls off her face. ‘Why, if it isn’t my cousin, Helen. Don’t cry, little sweetheart, you are safe now and I’ll take ... ...nkenhagen 12 Arthur Forsythe, and by his first marriage to Arthur’s only sister, had become his brother-in-law. Her aunt had died several years ago... ...’ ‘Yes, I was sent to one of your hill schools when I was a boy and taught by the good Christian Brothers, although I, myself, am not a Christian. B... ...e, not; Helen remembered that Isabel had left after the wedding on a few days’ leave to visit her brother in Lucknow. Gavin had told Helen, shortly... ...that is what Maria had wished and partly because Isabel needed the money to support her feckless brother. Helen knew now that it was a ruse to keep ...

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...eaders speak, not sing, except as otherwise noted.] Leader of Men. Alas! little knows he that his kingdom is of nothing but of change and pain. L... .... He limps.] Both Choruses. A light thing is man and his suffering very little. If he can but endure for a short time, death saves him. Lo, his r... ..., Vic- tory! 'Twas I that saved them! Yes, 'twas I that saved you - Ye little wranglers with the name of war! I beat Burgoyne, I saved the contin... ... habitation in his heart. t181 * I f OF BENEDICT ARNOLD Father Hudson. Little I understand, but greatly pity. You, who have mastered all philoso... ...] Arnold. [Speaking as out of his sleep.] Leave me alone, Thou thing of little might! Thou painted bogey! I am conscience- proof, men, I'll tak... ...anada, 1 My natural son, whose mother is no more; And yet my son, -and brother to the And ever at my cost I've brought him up. nnot leave him ou... ...ht.] Arnold. William, you are a soldier: - This old sword Was once your brother Ben's, - my eldest boy. He served his God, his Country, and his ... ...'s death. It is a record We may be proud of in the family. You and your brothers, Edward, George, and Robert, Are dedicated soldiers to the King.... ...ffered, that was meant t not for you. There, go my boy; must to all your brothers tell this say I blessed them. They will un- sure, on the appoint...