...om Copyright ©2001 by Gracie C. McKeever NOTICE: This eBook is licensed to the original purchaser only. Duplication or distribution to any person via ... ...any other means is a violation of International copyright law and subjects the violator to severe fines and/or imprisonment. This notice overrides the... ...insula, Rub al-Khali—18th Century "Allah has forsaken you, Kane." He heard the husky declaration as if from a great distance, glared at the sensual or... ...o working with you Therese." "And I you, Ms. Binte." "We're a pretty close-knight group here, Therese. Like one big happy family..." She gently squeez... ...e C. McKeever 44 Therese's stomach churned when she looked at the doctor's dark expression and wondered what more there could be. "You've come out of ... ...and tapped the mattress beside her. "C'mere boy..." The Rott popped up his dark head, glanced at her as if to say "Who, me?" "Yeah, you Marsh. Come." ... ...on't have anything else to call you." "Oh." Therese stared at him, saw the dark expression cloud his eyes as he regarded her. Fear or just healthy cau... ...the handle as if for support. She saw them as clearly as if they were in a film running across her memory. Sahir smiling as she banishes Kane to the e...

...reft...Can this thoroughly mismatched couple find comfort and vindication in each other's arms? More importantly, can Kane and Therese's love survive the ancient vendetta of one unforgiving and powerful demon djinni? Find out that anything is possible when a devout mystical being from the old world joins forces with an urban-reared spitfire from the new? (http://www.gracie...

... Sarah Larker returns to a cave where her sister disappeared ten years earlier. She walks through a portal and is mistaken for a runaway princess on the run by a dangerous immortal king in medieval times. Her plan is bold as well as daring—become this princess, wed the king, and slip on an ancient wedding ring that will unlock the portal back home. Then find her sister an...

...Chapter 1 A soft growl echoed in the darkness. Sarah snatched the thermal imaging camera from the row of equipment by the fire. Turning in a slow circle, she scanned the dark trees beyond. Nothing moved. Just as she was taking a few tentative steps through t...

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 Ban... ...Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004... ...licated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indicat... ...e-Kamolmatayakul Annira Silver local culture. The collection contains few films and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, usi... ...used to walk. Today, everything must be so easy. Today, people go to watch films in the evenings. People are working all the time, they have no time f... ... Consequently, nothing can be sold at low prices. For example, we must buy dark-blue stone from abroad. It's expensive, as it comes all the way from C... ...t, and in the evening we used to plough again. We might plough right until dark. Ploughing with buffalo was very slow. For example, ploughing about 10... ...as, as if in a post-modern style. The houses might have round turrets like knights' castles, Spanish patios, arched windows, Greek columns and statues... ...rectly on the ground turned out to be an uncomfortable living space, being dark, dank and unhealthy in the rainy season. Cars had now appeared in yard...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and heale...

... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... .............................................................. 56 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD ......................................................... ...oses, reducing abdomens, inflating the calves while deflating the thighs, darkening the skin, lightening the hair, contouring the body through exerc... ...e or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teac... ...egiance‘ to its flag and its country in 1954 when the Catholic group, the Knights of Columbus, asked President Eisenhower to put it in the Pledge.‖ ... ...had. This was a wise policy if it was in the government‘s interest to have dark dingy houses. New Orleans taxed the number of floors next to the stre... ...nce is only a couple of hundred years old. We know little of what we call dark matter which is most of the universe. A hundred years ago we could on... ...ejudice by arguing, ‗For every Jew you show me who's not a Christian, Sir Knight, I'll show you a Christian who's not a Christian.' People often sp...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemu...

...akelex Report What Hell’s elite don’t want you to know. Christine Jones 1 The Snakelex Report What Hell’s elite don’t want you to know. www.cjbooks.n... ...ormation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places ... ... is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any ... ...ed at the plush office of Sir Creepton, the boss’s secretary. There is no darkness, unbearable heat or bubbling sludge pits here; Creepton works in ... ...ing several decades on the bench with nothing better to do than watch his dark cohorts fight and throw sludge at each other. Though Snakelex knew he ... ...gs of the promotional ladder to knock Shutenhog off his perch. The former dark spiritual authority of a certain small town was considered by many to... ...n Peacock Inn, Est. 18’, something or other, ‘Proprietors Morris and Anne Knight’. Snakelex’s eyes popped at Shutenhog’s report on the proprietors o... ...unken stupor. To sum him up, he’s a middle-aged man with a beer gut. Anne Knight is a different kettle of sludge all together. Like her partner, she... ... subject of this report. We do however have one thing in our favour, Anne Knight fears her husband more than she fears Him upstairs and she has had ...

... assignment to a small country town in Australia. Spiritual warfare will be battled out between good and evil. Snakelex must use every dirty trick in the book to cause chaos in the community and sway those from attending the only church in town. The elite at Hell's head office take an interest in Snakelex and aid him to learn the truth about their enemy and Hell's best kep...

...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge t... ...sms in our 3-dimensional Universe are: long-short, large-small, past-present, dark-light, empty-full, hot-cold, up-down, attraction-repulsion, weak-... ...ey feared the night, they were protected from attack by the predators, and the dark by worshipping their God and feeding their God all night so he bu... ... habituated to looking at only one thing: the fire. At night, everything was dark; the only bright thing was the dire they all stared at. The artif... ...ll human civilization: is the mythic 12 disciples of Jesus, and the 12 mythic knights of King Arthur. The trouble with these groups is the unlucky ... ...e unlucky number of 13. There were 12 disciples plus one more; there were 12 Knights of the Round Table plus one more. Neither of these two mythic... ...c number of 12 + 1 has never existed except in myth of King Arthur and his 12 knights… and for one short, tiny span of time in history… when Jesus fi...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

...ransferable. They cannot be sold, shared or given away as it is an infringement on the copyright of this work. Please send fellow readers to my site ... ...right of this work. Please send fellow readers to my site for a free download or to the many places like Project Gutenberg and ManyBooks.net offering... ...ind any grammar flaws or typos, email me at: Rachel@Raelori.com. I’d like to offer the cleanest copies possible but sometimes the eye misses small er... ... to Alloria Year 3030 Saron Bravewind stared at the grey brick ceiling in the darkness. The fire that spread orange, red and yellow light throu... ...d his wife, Jacina onto his bare chest and inhaled the vanilla almond scent of her dark hair, splayed across her cinnamon brown shoulders. He held he... ...to his desk near the fireplace. Silence filled the air except for the sound of his dark blue robe sliding across the stone floor. “Her husband shal... ... at least stay for our feasting. We must celebrate the arrival of our king and his knights. Besides, I’m sure you are tired from your journey.” ... ...f David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock's visual styles and stories. She has a love for film, vampires and visual storytelling which she couples with the ... ...garnered credits writing movie reviews, fiction and articles on the comic book and film industry. Rae makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona where she ...

...In the late 21st century on Earth, new technology allowed man to create machines merged with the body of their fallen comrades of war. These ?manchines? fought and won the war for the West. Discarded, the manchines learned of th...

.............................................................. 3 RECOGNIZING THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS ......................................................... ...CTION ................................................................ 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .................................... ......................................................................... 74 THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPING A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY ............................. ...tors’ area, leading our luggage like Argentinean dog walkers, I spotted a dark little man holding a yellow sign under his chin. ‘Commander and Clan’... ...tyx. I fervently hope that there is a reward for them at the end of their dark tunnel of life. ―The only light is that since the sex worke... ...asily controlled. Hatha recognizes the opposites of our perceptions, like dark and light, masculine and feminine, good and evil. In fact the name ‗h... ...different spelling and meanings. Red and read, the past tense of read, or knight and night. Homographs are words with the same spelling but have dif... ..., full employment, and Norman Rockwell—a world without terrorism, X-rated films and lying politicians. ―In Afghanistan allied soldiers gave fo...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemu...

...om Copyright ©1998 by Gracie C. McKeever NOTICE: This eBook is licensed to the original purchaser only. Duplication or distribution to any person via ... ...any other means is a violation of International copyright law and subjects the violator to severe fines and/or imprisonment. This notice overrides the... ... now-dead father than a brother. He should have listened and gotten out of the life sooner, when Nev had first started warning him about the dangers. ... ...o Ben's hands, providing him so many different opportunities to be Amire's knight in shining armor. Kelly had waylaid Amire at her school today with v... ...lim and olive-toned and with the same wavy jet-black hair and long-lashed, dark-chocolate eyes that Tyler bore. Weird how he had never really apprecia... ...urned to face the street. Plain as day, leaning back against the side of a dark-blue, late-model Acura. Edge grinned when he saw Kelly at the door, ma... ...unched off the remote, tossed it back onto the coffee table. He sat in the dark living room, staring at the blank TV screen long and hard, was sitting... ... his head, and he's not sure if it's her pain or his. Dagny, in his mental film, grabs her head between her hands and silently drops to her knees. "Oh...

...A young black man is shot down in the streets in a drive-by. But a mistake has been made. Kelly shouldn't have died. So he's returned to Earth?in the body of a young comatose white woman married to a hot looking Latino narc cop. Can Kelly resolve the question...

...The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare The Tragedy of King Lear is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...gedy of King Lear is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. The ... ...al opportunity university. The Tragedy of King Lear is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is furnis... ...ants to Cornwall GONERIL: REGAN: daughters to Lear. CORDELIA: Knights of Lear’s train, Captains, Messengers, Sol diers, and Attendants S... .... Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EDMUND. KING LEAR: Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three ... ... with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course, With reservation of an hundred knights, By you to be sustain’d, shall our abode Make with you by due turns... ...oss crime or other, 28 That sets us all at odds: I’ll not endure it: His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle. When he ret... ...it head bit off by it young. 40 So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. KING LEAR: Are you our daughter? GONERIL: Come, sir, I would y... ... age, And know themselves and you. KING LEAR: Darkness and devils! Saddle my horses; call my train together: Degenerate b...

...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. King Lear?s palace. Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND. KENT: I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. GLOUCESTER: It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most; for equalities are so weighed, t...

...d to Goneril. A Captain employed by Edmund Gentleman attendant on Cordelia A Herald Servants to Cornwall GONERIL: REGAN: daughters to Lear. CORDELIA: Knights of Lear?s train, Captains, Messengers, Soldiers, and Attendants...

...sics Series Publication Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone asso- ciated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...55 55 CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VII: VII: VII: VII: VII: THE DARK SQ THE DARK SQ THE DARK SQ THE DARK SQ THE DARK SQU U U U UARE GARDEN ... ...e side of the house to the back. There he hung a moment, glancing down the dark, wintry garden. “My father—my father’s come!” cried a child’s excited ... ...hrough Fred Alton.” “Where is it?” The little girls were dragging a rough, dark object out of a corner of the passage into the light of the kitchen do... ... enough to threaten Sir William’s golden king with his own ivory queen and knights of wilful life. And Sir William quaked. “Well, and how have you spe... ...ir William there was a curious rivalry— unconscious on both sides. The old knight had devoted an energetic, adventurous, almost an artistic nature to ... ...So, with his strange, old smile showing his teeth rather terribly, the old knight glowered sightlessly over his glass at Aaron. Then he drank: the str...

...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now int...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE BLUE BALL ..............................................................................................4 CHAPTER II: ROYAL OAK.................................................................................................

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publicat... ...nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. N... ... purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associate... ...ate University is an equal opportunity University. 3 A Tramp Abroad A TRAMP ABROAD By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 CHAPTER ... ...ted saloon, the clang- ing music invited to dance, and splendidly appeared the rich toilets and charms of the ladies, and the festively costumed Princ... ...out excited general attention, and his tall figure, as well as the noble propriety of his movements, attracted especially the regards of the ladies. W... ...simi- lar vegetable rubbish, and drawn by a small cow and a smaller donkey yoked together. It was a pretty slow concern, but it got us into Heilbronn ... ...ow that anything else gave us so vivid a sense of the old age of Heilbronn as those footworn grooves in the paving-stones. CHAPTER XIII My Long Crawl ... ...too. I lay there fretting over this in- jury, and trying to go to sleep; but the harder I tried, the wider awake I grew. I got to feeling very lonely ...

...Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...t Georgie Babbitt, she discerned gallant youth. She waited for him, in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the... ...t do you think I am? A busted bookkeeper?” “Well, why don’t you put on the dark gray suit to-day, and stop in at the tailor and leave the brown trouse... ... and orally calculate how much each drop had cost him. This morning he was darkly prepared to find something wrong, and he felt belittled when the mix... ...ong Regular Fellows. He was also no less an official than Esteemed Leading Knight in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and it was rumored t... ... It was much more than a study of transportation. It was an aspiration for knightly rank. In the city of Zenith, in 67 Sinclair Lewis the barbarous t... ...was so that it might be sold. To them, the Romantic Hero was no longer the knight, the wandering poet, the cowpuncher, the aviator, nor the brave youn...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-...

...ms of George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pen... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...an relieve the dismal tone! Chillianwallah, Chillianwallah! ’Tis a village dark and low, By the bloody Jhelum river Bridged by the foreboding foe; And... ...nd I fetched the mat T o make it up a couch just by her, Where in the lone dark hours to lie: For neither dear old nurse nor I Would any single wish d... ...stair-clock’s click, I heard a rustling, half uncertain, Close against the dark bed-curtain: And while I thrust my leg to kick, And feel the phantom w... ...ght palaces; Here in our May-blood we wander, careering ‘mongst ladies and knights. 31 THE POETRY OF SHAKESPEARE Picture some Isle smiling green ‘mid... ... SONG OF COURTESY I When Sir Gawain was led to his bridal-bed, By Arthur’s knights in scorn God-sped:- How think you he felt? O the bride within Was y... ...wain felt as should we, Little of Love’s soft fire knew he: But he was the Knight of Courtesy. II When that evil lady he lay beside Bade him turn to g...

Excerpt: The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith.

...Contents CHILLIANWALLAH..................................................................................................................... 14 THE DOE: A FRAGMENT........................................................................................................... 15 BEAUTY ROHTRAUT ..................................................................................

... Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ................................................................. 114 THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD ................................................................... ...nsberg Com- bine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palat... ..., four miles from a station, and, so far as they could, judge in the bumpy dark- ness, twice as many from a road. Trees, kine, and the out- lines of b... ...hisper. “A Colonial house!” Behind the blue-green of the twin trees rose a dark-blu- ish brick Georgian pile, with a shell-shaped fan-light over its p... ...passed us on her way to the music room hum- ming the Magnificat. THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD THE NEW... ...NIGHTHOOD THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD Who gives him the Bath? “I,” said the ...

...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wonderin...

...N ENFORCED ........................................................................................................................................ 4 THE RECALL ................................................................................................................................................................. 35 GARM?A HOSTAGE......................................

... POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI. V... ....LVI. VI. VI. VI. VI. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dis... ...: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rmed boy, whose preter- natural acuteness and sensibility were seen in his dark eyes, without a feeling approaching to grief, had he known that he was... ...a Fall, of a Divine Redeemer, of a Future World, and the glorious light or darkness which these and other Christian doctrines cast upon the Mystery of... ...s prize, And all to one loved folly sacrifice. Once on a time, La Mancha’s knight, 14 they say, A certain bard encountering on the way, Discoursed in... ...s. Our author, happy in a judge so nice, Produced his play, and begg’d the knight’s advice; Made him observe the subject, and the plot, The Manners, P... ...a combat in the lists left out. ‘What! leave the combat out?’ exclaims the knight. ‘Yes, or we must renounce the Stagyrite.’ 280... ...st; Though each may feel increases and decays, And see now clearer and now darker days. Regard not then if wit be old or new, But blame the false, and...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

....................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING ............................

... and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...nto the field—with other soldiers and in the daytime, not alone and in the dark. He had the influence of example, he drew courage from his comrades’ c... ... by forty or fifty Austrian generals, the group opposite them were chiefly Knights of Malta and knights of a German order. The mass of heads in the sq... ...red around with their slouch hats pulled down over their faces, and hinted darkly at awful possibilities. The people were troubled and afraid, and sho... ...he pilgrimage by small posters, and warned every body to keep indoors and darken all houses along the route, and leave the road empty. These warnings... ... the way to its mother’s paps day or night. So they licensed me as a pilot—knighted me, so to speak —and I rose up clothed with authority, a responsib... ...or opportunity for legal or indeed any other employ ment. ‘In 1589,’ says Knight, ‘we have undeniable evidence that he had not only a casual engageme...

...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE .....................................

...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ise for the Blodgett Ladies’ Basket-Ball Team. Even when she was tired her dark eyes were observant. She did not yet know the immense ability of the w... ...ping before hell-for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- t... ... and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and palm trees toward which it was forever mysteriously gliding; an... ...spotted. Flat against the wall of the second story the signs of lodges—the Knights of Pythias, the Maccabees, the Woodmen, the Masons. Dahl & Oleson’s... ...ur dramatics and so on here?” “Oh yes! The town’s just full of talent. The Knights of Pythias put on a dandy minstrel show last year.” “It’s nice you’... ...istinguished by an enormous shrimp-colored ribbon lettered in silver, “Sir Knight and Brother, U. F. O. B., Annual State Convention.” On the 313 Sinc...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very...

...The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classic... ... Edgar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring is a publication of the Pe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...d o’er wood and height. How did I yearn to greet him as of yore, After the darkness waxing doubly bright! The airy conflict ofttimes was renew’d, Then... ...e-blood spilt With my glitt’ring dart. Yes! I was a man! Next I formed the knightly plan 28 Goethe Princess Fish to free; She was much too complaisan... ...re my love hath made her home, And with silent footstep slowly Through the darksome forest roam, Luna breaks through oaks and bushes, Zephyr hastes he... ...ide! Grant this to a raving man! And to heights of rapture raised, Let the knight so crafty peep At his maiden while asleep, Through her lattice-windo... ... Soon stood, in robe of mist, the oak, A tow’ring giant in his size, Where darkness through the thicket broke, And glared with hundred gloomy eyes. Fr... ...h these sinews thrill’ d! This heart, how firm and wild! These bones, what knightly marrow fill’d! This cup, how bright it smil’d! “Half of my life I ...

Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

...Contents The Translator?s Original Dedication to the Countess Granville. ..................................................................................... 17 Original Preface. .........................................................

...lication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ssive acting. The nursemaid waking in the night beheld a solitary fig- ure darkening a lamp above her little sleeping charge, and became so used to th... ...travelling cap. His fingers shaded a lamp, and reddened against the fitful darkness that ever and anon went leaping up the wall. She could hardly beli... ...om- pensation for Injustice,’ says the ‘Pilgrim’s Scrip,’ is, that in that dark Ordeal we gather the worthiest around us.” And the baronet’s fair frie... ...fooling; the lady for serious converse. “I shall believe again in Arthur’s knights,” she said. “When I was a girl I dreamed of one.” “And he was in qu... ...and would die for them—die for them. Ah! you know men but not women.” “The knights possessing such distinctions must be young, I presume?” said Sir Au... ...le nature.” Sir Austin looked at her wistfully. “And did you encounter the knight of your dream?” “Not then.” She lowered her eyelids. It was prettily...