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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

...) were as hectic as usual. Producers, assistant producers, directors, assistant directors and a beehive of workers were all scurrying around pawning... ...irectors and a beehive of workers were all scurrying around pawning off papers and giving and taking orders. Cameras jostled into position as the li... ...ths. She had waited patiently for Alex Trent to retire. Even though her salary was almost double of anyone else in her position at the other networks... ...ow that you’re here,” he said forcing a smile and left. In a matter of seconds, a set of double doors off the foyer burst opened and a statuesque b... ...e, Zlatamir and Ramsey were reading from the same script. Zlatamir tried several times to trap me on the meaning of free will. He’s quite intelligent... ...ne such an outstanding job? He didn’t see anyone except Garza, was he alone? If it were a trap, they would all be dead by now. Tomorrow would bring ... ...ong the embankment keeping to the shadows as much as he could. About twenty feet from the shooters, he hid behind the agent’s car. He could only see...

...An ex-intelligence officer, who handles elite politicians and celebrities cover up their misdeeds and embarrassing situations, now finds himself trying to unravel the mystery that could change the world and the future of the international space station. ...

...ry. Brand uncovers information pointing to Jamieson’s involvement in arming the international space station. As rogue generals from Russia, China and the U.S. try to install a mind-control weapon designed to divide the world into three parts, Brand tries to stop them. Enlisting the help of Mrs. Stone, the mafia and covert operatives, he must find the weapon before it c...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches... ...s of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang... ...y with the use of carbon paper, the students niiglit be duly credited with double cuts at all times. He further ex- plained that Johnson, who tried to... ...ny intricate processesthroughwhich his hat passes in it< transition from a double handful of fi'.r into a styliih head covering. Thirty-five years exp... ... Hill gun ciuii held an invitation individual tournamont at the Pittnlield traps Saturday af- ternoon which was attended by Chapman, Palmer '07, L. vP... ... western trip. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. 2.00 p. m. —Sercomb cnp shoot, Ta- conic traps. 2.80 p. m.—Williams-University of Michigan baseball game, Ann Arbor.... ...shed The Gun club has received an invitation to join the Intercollegi- ate Shooters' association, among whose members are the Harvard and Yale Gun clu...

...nning independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student ...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "T... ...thor of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descripti... ... EMBELLISHED WITH MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS AND LARGE DOUBLE-PACE COLORED PLATES, DRAWN ESPECIALLY FOR THIS WORK BY AMERICA... ...anguish -- Desperate fight on the causeways -- The Spaniards fall into a fatal trap -- A terrible slaughter at the breach -- Awful sacrifice of Spanis... ...clash between the bulls and the cavalry -- A gallant charge supported by sharp-shooters -- The capture of Panama -- A riot of murder and rapine -- Inh... ...to the Red Sea, and sailing down the coast of Africa, continued until they had doubled the cape, passing up the westward coast, and again entered the ... ... level with the tops of the Mexican houses, while inside were placed the sharp-shooters and the artillery, so disposed as to sweep the streets. The ar... ...rmounted by throwing them over again into the water. THE SPANIARDS FALL INTO A TRAP AND MEET WITH AWFUL DISASTER. The obstinacy of the Mexicans, despi...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilou...

...e Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago...

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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

... This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people and horses, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, charac... ...orses, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any res... ...t the barn and take her back after the race? Since she’s extra work, I’ll pay double.” He pulled a fifty-dollar bill from his pocket and anchored i... ...ch help, and when he lets go of her ear that mare will explode. She's a death trap.” Kurt edged forward, watching as the valet stepped around the ma... ...e. The waiter frowned as he walked away, and Julie elbowed Kurt in the ribs. “Double onions for me,” she called, not missing a beat. “Ouch.” Kurt ... ...and his whole body jerked to attention, waiting on her mouth, her touch. He trapped her hands, his voice ragged. “You better stop.” “I don’t want... ...r, had brightened considerably and now was crammed with a colorful display of shooters. “Another one down the hatch,” Cody said. He clinked his gla... ...And you do care. Have some food or coffee instead.” “I prefer these delicious shooters.” She slurred the last two words, dismissing him with a swish...

...rainer, Kurt MacKinnon, resents being yanked into undercover police work. But when his ex-partner is murdered, Kurt is determined to find the killer and moves his third-string Thoroughbreds to the backwater track where his partner was last seen alive. Julie West, a dedicated but struggling jockey, pins her dreams of an elusive win on the new trainer in town, never suspect...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...in 1603. In 'The World's Classics' the first volume was published in 1904, and reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. ... ... presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corrections to the Publisher, ... ...biters obscure diligence. His horse I set before you; perhaps without his trappings; and his meat without sause. Indeede in this specially finde I f... ...ben dir', tu sei Bellerophonte. Tre corpi di Chimera di Montagna Hai trapassato, scosso, rinversato. Del' honorat' impres' anch' io mi glor... ...s earnestly for counters, and keepe as strict an accompt, as if they were double duckets, when playing with my wife or children, it is indifferent t... ...ts-man of nature, to seeke the testimonie of truth from mindes endued and double dide with custome?' I am of opinion, that no fantasie http://www.uo... ...fty degrees of things before our selves, they present us with the Arte of shooters, who to come neere the marke take their aime far above the same. ...

...well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends...

...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of rep...

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The Chouans

By: Honoré de Balzac

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ed that ci-devant, who dares to come from London with his British gold, to trap me like a crow!” On learning these secret circumstances, and being wel... ...ered hats, discolored by rain and ragged with age, and bent their bod- ies double. One of them, named Larose, a corporal well- known to Hulot, remarke... ... brute. He and I might have made a pair! I came very near falling into the trap. Yes, we shall undoubtedly be attacked; but let ‘em come; I’m all read... ...rtain the Revo- lution cannot be brought to naught. Ha! we soldiers have a double mission,—not merely to defend French territory, but to preserve the ... ...e Chouans on the flank and prevent them from post- ing themselves as sharp-shooters among the trees, where they could pick off the Blues without risk ...

...he year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way between Fougeres and Ernee, a small town where travelers along that road...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...By this time Jock had found his way into all the intricacies of a tattered doublet, and more tattered pair of breeches, and sallied forth, a great whi... ...labour. He detected poachers, black-fishers, orchard- breakers, and pigeon-shooters; had the applause of the bench for his reward, and the public cred... ...us burden to so poor a country. And though the num- ber of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, y... ...iformity’s sake, was a precautionary annuncia- tion of spring-guns and man-traps of such formidable pow- ers, that, said the rubrick, with an emphatic... ...keeper makes his rounds with a loaded fowling-piece. He mentioned even man-traps and spring-guns. I should be loath to affront my father’s old friend ...

...wly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the ...

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Plain Tales from the Hills

By: Rudyard Kipling

...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ghton to shoot and win. Cubbon was at one horn of the semicircle round the shooters, and Barr- Saggott at the other. Miss Beighton was last on the lis... ...th a most pungent and sickening stench—a reek that took fierce hold of the trap of your windpipe and shut it. The powder then hissed and fizzed, and s... ... fee to the potent sorcerer, whose servant was the head in the basin, were doubled. Here the mistake from the artistic point of view came in. T o ask ... ...thing except fall off his pony, and knock chips out of gate-posts with his trap. Even that became mo- notonous after a time. He objected to whist, cut... ... Finally, the woman wound up by saying that the Senior Subaltern carried a double F . M. in tattoo on his left shoulder. We all knew that, and to our ...

...TH........................................................................................................................................... 5 THREE AND?AN EXTRA .......................................................................................................... 10 THROWN AWAY .............................................................................................

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... their proper- ties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap- doors, and dark-lanterns? Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a... ...ed its violence. The library at Waverley-Honour, a large Gothic room, with double arches and a gallery , contained such a mis- 21 Sir Walter Scott ce... ...ed in her bower, her ear strained to every sound, her heart throbbing with double agony, now listening to the decaying echo of the hoofs of the king’s... ...imes occu- pied by the partial and irregular contests of individual sharp- shooters, and a hat or bonnet was occasionally seen to fall, as a wounded m... ... Mutemus Clypeos, &c. ‘Change we our shields, and for ourselves assume the trappings of the Greeks.’ Neb, nose. Nebulones nequissimi, worthless scamps...

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Virginibus Puerisque, And Other Papers

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e one is parting company with all his aches and ecstasies. For us also the trap is laid. But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to enterta... ...s wear his four stars outside his Admiral’s frock, to be a butt for sharp- shooters. “In honour I gained them,” he said to objectors, 85 Virginibus P... ... back merchant clerks with more heart and spirit to their book- keeping by double entry. There is another question which seems bound up in this; and t... ...mehow the dignity of a beak with the good nature of a bottle, and the very double chin with an air of intelligence and insight. And all these portrait...

........ 4 CHAPTER I ? ?VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE?................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II ? CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ......................................................................... 38 CHAPTER III ? AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS.......................................................................... 49 CHAPTER IV ? ORDERED SOUT...

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Blix

By: Frank Norris

...sylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ew, all critics had overlooked it. It is where Jukes is describing the man-trap of the City of the Dead who are alive, and mentions that the slope of ... ...wn at San Bruno—nothing more than a road- house, the headquarters for duck-shooters and fisher- men from the city. However, Blix and Condy were the on... ... wide open. What a glorious sunset! It seems to me as though I were living double every minute; and oh! Blix, isn’t it the greatest thing in the world...

...r 1. It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday morning?s paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time....

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

...THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORM... ... THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED BY HIS MAJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION ... ...ne following; for it shall be very grievous. 32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is estab- lished by God... ...alm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: 12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mout... ...ive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ... ... eld, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate. 24 And the shooters shot from o the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s se... ...all prevail against him. 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. 11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, an...

...Excerpt: Genesis; Chapter 1 -- In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw ...

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Beechcroft at Rockstone

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...r her if she were.’ And Val had to turn away in floods of tears, which re- doubled on being told by the united voices of her brothers and sisters that... ...at up, and made her sole asser- tion of liberty the working out of a tough double equation in Colenso, which actually came right, and put her in such ... ...ing. Is it, Gill?’ She assented. ‘They did, Gill. They shot at us with pea-shooters,’ sighed the girl. ‘Oh! it was jolly, jolly, jolly!’ cried the boy... ...at individual was too good a man of business to fall, as he said, into the trap, and make a present to that scamp Richard of more than the worth of th...

...Excerpt: A Dispersion. ?A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming,? said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some a...

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Nutties Father

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e Earlsforth natives. William’s girls will have enough to endure without a double eclipse!’ and he laughed. ‘I—I don’t want—’ faltered the mother. ‘Yo... ... want another couple,’ and, as she accepted, ‘How do you get on with May’s double?’ ‘I pity May for having such a double.’ ‘Don’t encourage her by mis... ...onnisglen, being forced to live as a soldier, leaving his castle to grouse shooters. His seven brothers had fared mostly in distant lands as they coul... ... the engine, whose weight had probably done the mischief, and prepared the trap for the next comer. As May came near, her brother made her available b... ...r ulsters, and only Nuttie consented to have the carriage-rug added to her trappings, and ingeniously tied on cloak-fashion with her sash by Gerard. H...

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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory»s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Volume Two Containing Books Ten... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...strokes. Sir Lamorak saw he would not stint, and waxed somewhat wroth, and doubled his strokes, for he was one of the noblest knights of the world; an... ...as despoiled and brought to burial. But Anglides privily gat her husband’s doublet and his shirt, and that she kept secretly. Then was there much sorr... ...f in this manner, in his shield he bare the Questing Beast, and in all his trappings. And when he was thus ready, he sent to the haut prince to give h... ...h the best. And on the morn when it was day they were arrayed all in green trappings, shields and spears, and La Beale Isoud in the same colour, and h... ... with her; and no men went never with her, but always women, and they were shooters, and could well kill a deer, both at the stalk and at the trest; a...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How Sir Tristram jousted, and smote down King Arthur, because he told him not the cause why he bare that shield. And if so be ye can descrive what ye bear, ye are worthy to bear the arms. As for that, said Sir Tristram, I will answer you; this shield ...

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The Prime Minister

By: Anthony Trollope

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ... he does an injury to hu- manity at large. I’m not going to be caught in a trap, you know, because I like horse radish with my beef. Well, I can’t go ... ...hose who appear to be least subject to them. The town horse, used to gaudy trap- pings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, no... ...n if during this year he were to spend more than his income,—if he were to double or even treble the expenditure of past years,—he could not con- sume... ...onours. Just at this moment the Duchess walked across the ground up to the shooters, accompanied by Mrs Finn and Lady Chiltern. She had not been seen ... ... that without the slightest cause. I have money lying at Hunky’s more than double enough for those bills. Why can’t you trust a man? If you won’t trus...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...s ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Unive... ...sylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...burg says, or Haugwitz either. This famous Prus- sian neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty destiny of our adored monarch.... ...ent that her prank would be taken in good part. Sonya and fat little Petya doubled up with laughter. “Y ou see! I have asked,” whispered Natasha to he... ...past always seems good,” said he, “but did not Suvorov himself fall into a trap Moreau set him, and from which he did not know how to escape?” “Who to... ...inued to shout. “He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” He scattered the b... ... and he was losing men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharp- shooters into the wood. “V ery good!” said Bagration. As he was leaving the... ...de a half turn and went past it at a measured pace. The twenty-four sharp- shooters with discharged muskets, standing in the center of the circle, ran...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... the vacancy behind their sockets. A medical student was trying one of the doublets of orange- tawny and silver, slashed with dirty light blue. He was... ...room, and in the midst was a fountain, pattering and babbling with jets of double-distilled otto of roses. “Pipes, Goliath!” Rafael said gayly to a li... ...wor- thy of the steed which bore him. Both were caparisoned in the fullest trappings of feudal war. The arblast, the mangonel, the demiculverin, and t... ...e was in the puttock-shrouds of the old “Repudiator.” The stern and simple trapper loved the sound of the waters better than the jargon of the French ... ...shooting, my dear Squire? De fon is gabidal.” “No doubt,” says I, “for the shooters, but mighty bad sport for the pigeon.” And this joke set them all ...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young...

...BARBAZURE. ..................................................................................................................................39 LORDS AND LIVERIES. ..................................................................................................................49 CRINOLINE........................................................................................

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...5 805 805 805 805 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...inued to shout. “He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” He scattered the b... ...eutenant. When Telyanin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up ... ... is saying. He saw that his championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to... ...h his right, and reached the bushes. Behind these were some Russian sharp- shooters. CHAPTER XX THE INFANTRY REGIMENTS that had been caught unawares i...

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The Kalevala the Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English

By: John Martin Crawford

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ge of dishonor, At my mother’s home and fireside! “Hither bring my martial doublet, Bring me now the sword of battle, Bring my father’s sword of honor... ...al heroes, From the deeps, ye sickle bearers, From the brooks, ye crossbow shooters, Come, thou forest, with thine archers, Come, ye thickets, with yo... ...ppeared these many ages, Lays no more his snares of copper, Sets no longer traps of iron, Cannot learn from him the wisdom, Cannot find in him the los... ...was not the largest, Nor belonged he to the smallest; Tongue the length of double hatchets, Teeth as long as fen rake handles, Mouth as broad as tripl... ...ith mirth the glen and forest, Lived and frolicked in the woodlands. “Into traps are foxes driven By the cruel pangs of hunger, Into traps, the cunnin...

...eface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the...

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Cashel Byron's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... didn’t learn much there,” replied the youth. “I think I could bookkeep by double en- try,” he added, glancing at the card. “Double entry! What’s that... ... sticks, the light of which, being brighter than the lanterns, cast strong double shadows from a group of standing figures about the table. The surrou... ...more good than harm. And if all these—dog-bakers, and soldiers, and pigeon-shooters, and fox-hunters, and the rest of them—are made welcome here, why ... ...the way, ain’t it?” he said. “You can’t catch an old fox twice in the same trap. Do you know any more falls?” “I do,” said Bashville; “but I really ca... ...eat by that little Killarney Primrose, and went out and bought a horse and trap next day, what could I think? There, ma’am, I tell you that of my own ...

...n. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... leave the ship again I thought I had learned enough of the working of the double and single pulley, by which passengers were let down from the upper ... ...smissed the contractor and made a new contract with a native, at more than double the original price. Thus we finally reached Panama. The steamer, how... ...ns caused by felling trees into the water, when he encountered rebel sharp-shooters, and his progress was delayed by obstructions in his front. He cou... ...9th he received notice from the admiral that he had been attacked by sharp-shooters and was in imminent peril. Sherman at once returned through Black ... ...man to send all his cavalry against him, and not to let him get out of the trap he had put himself into. Sherman had anticipated me by sending troops ... ... the soil, their bread and vegetables. All the streams abounded with fish. Trap- ping would furnish pelts to be brought into the States once a year, t...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... 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. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... purple cheeks and a canvas petticoat; and that I devised schemes, and set traps, and made speeches in my heart, which I seldom had courage to say whe... ...old him, and shocked to think that he should be the agent of bringing this double misfortune on those he loved best. “Let us go to him,” said Mr. Esmo... ...me,” says the poor Captain, who indeed was but too often in a state to see double, and so checked he resumed the interrupted thread of his story. “As ... ...make many brilliant hits—half a dozen in a night sometimes—but, like sharp-shooters, when they had fired their shot, they were obliged to retire under...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volum...

........................................................................................................ 26 CHAPTER IV I AM PLACED UNDER A POPISH PRIEST AND BRED TO THAT RELIGION.?VISCOUNTESS CASTLEWOOD .................................................................................................................................................... 36 CHAPTER V MY SUPERIORS ...

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