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Young Folks, History of England

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...l to have anything to do with books. Even the great men thought they could farm and feast, advise the king, and consent to the laws, hunt or fight, qu... ... and queen to eat, but by going and taking sheep and poultry from the poor farmers around; so that things were nearly as bad as under William Rufus—be... ...ed. He had a very good queen of his own, named Phillipa, who brought cloth-workers over from he own country Hainault (now part of Belgium), to teach t... ...to London, and by this marriage the causes of the Red and white Roses were united; so that he took for his badge a great rose—half red and half white.... ...manner, that was much liked. England was prosperous, too, and shopkeepers, farm- ers, and all were well off; there was plenty of bread and meat for al... ...t at Edinburgh; but in the reign of Queen Anne the Scottish Parliament was united to the English one, and the members of it had to come to Westminster... ...d so George III. gave up his rights to all that country that is called the United States of America. The United States set up a Government of their ow...

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

...day whilst the other 26 Shaw females lose their sex altogether and become workers sup- porting the males in luxury and idleness until the queen has f... ...ery hour Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chicken... ...ens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely en- slaved as farm stock. Accordingly, the people whose concep- tion of marriage is a far... ...f ascertaining that every possible effort has been made to keep the couple united against their wills, such privacy will only be tolerated when we at ... ...time that they have long since lost interest in one another, and have been united only by a common interest in their children. We may expect, then, th...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...generally with his regiment, and when visiting them was a good deal at the United Service Club. He had lately married an heiress in a small way, retir... ...oo,” said the Doc- tor, “or we shall have to send them to vegetate on some farm, and see the cows milked and the pigs fed.” “I’m afraid Bobus would ap... ...e’s a little girl, who is his own great-niece, living down at River Hollow Farm with Mr. and Mrs. Gould, just brought up by common farmers, you know, ... ...hem as fragments of her dear old former life. Mr. and Mrs. Acton came to a farmhouse at Redford, about a mile and a half off, where Mr. Acton was to l... ...ile,” said Janet, again ab- sorbing herself in her paper, while the public united in guess- ing the acrostic; and the only objection was raised by the... ..., Fordham and the agent carved the meal with gloves of steel, and that the workers drank the red wine through the helmet barred. In the midst, however... ...icked and un- feeling to have been dancing, and cried so bitterly that the united efforts of her aunt and brother could not persuade her that what was... ...death, preparing supplies, and keeping beds ready for any of the exhausted workers who could snatch a rest in the air of the hill. I scarcely saw my p...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

... would appear that the authorities had not even conde- scended to tell the United States Embassy where this innocent American citizen was confined; so... ... who announced that as there was no train he should have a good sleep at a farmhouse hard by, which farmhouse one of them claimed to espy through the ... ...dozed, one at each door. The train rushed lazily across the earth, between farmhouses, into fields, along woods … the sunlight smacked my eye and cuff... ...his broom and was assisting. Nearer and nearer they came; converging, they united their separate heaps of filth in a loudly stinking single mound at t... ...” “Vraiment”—he contemplated me with attention. “South American are you?” “United States” I explained. “Vraiment”— he looked curiously at me, not disa... ...ho had been arrested (because he was a Rus- sian) when his fellow munition workers struck and whose wife wanted him in Paris because she was hungry an... ...o be confused with the seeker of cigarette-ends. A big, shaggy per- son, a farmer, talked about “mon petit jardin,” an anarchist, wrote practically al...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...long since they have done with butch- ering one another or their king: the Workers, protected, en- couraged by Majesty, have ages ago built walled tow... ...l lands and on all seas; Poverty invades even the Royal Exchequer, and Tax-farming can squeeze out no more; there is a quarrel of twenty-five years’ s... ...s, make glad the spicy board of rich minis- tering Dowager, of philosophic Farmer-General. O nights and suppers of the gods! Of a truth, the long-demo... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...ficient!’ (Histoire Parlementaire, i. 335.) The Rennes people have elected Farmer Gerard, ‘a man of natu- ral sense and rectitude, without any learnin... ... along with the Genevese Dumont. (Dumont, Souvenirs sur Mirabeau, p. 305.) Workers and on- lookers make reverent way for him; fling verses, flowers on... ... bespaded, and in tricolor sash. As many as one hundred and fifty thousand workers: nay at certain seasons, as some count, two hundred and fifty thous... ...elf aiding from within: the railing gives way; Majesty and Legislative are united in place, unknown Destiny hovering over both. Rattle, and again ratt...

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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ere nothing is respected, he cannot know that city. When Schmucke and Pons united their riches and pov- erty, they hit upon the economical expedient o... ...n Normandy) standing in a hundred acres of park land, and a fine dependent farm, nominally bringing in twelve thousand francs per annum, though, as it... ...e just beginning to find out that the famous French and Ger- man marquetry workers of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries composed pe... ...nd bridegroom. The offices of the bank had been fitted into the wing which united a handsome business house with the hotel at the back, be- tween cour... ...me way of insuring himself against another lapse into poverty. “There is a farm and pasture land worth twelve hundred thousand francs in the market at... ...ve been taken in by an artist’s hoax like that.” In a few weeks’ time, the united forces of the Camusot and Popinot families gained an easy victory in... ... neurology are no less the fruit of similar studies. The first illustrious workers in these, to all appearance, untouched fields, made one mis- take, ... ...n in a black suit was coming up to say a word for an- other firm of marble-workers. It is often said that “death is the end of a journey,” but the apt...

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The Arrow of Gold : A Story between Two Notes

By: Joseph Conrad

...making friends with the people of the Old Town, pilots, coasters, sailors, workers of all sorts. He pretended rather absurdly to be a seaman him- self... ...ours,” said Mills, as we came out on the quays. Already dim figures of the workers moved in the biting dawn and the masted forms of ships were coming ... ...d at her sympathetically and she went on: “He was the only son from a rich farmhouse two miles down the slope. In winter they used to send him to scho... ...n’t even know how she looked. There are no paintings or photographs in our farmhouses amongst the hills. I haven’t even heard her described to me. I b... ...ily and my uncle is a great man in the country, but where is the reputable farmer or God-fearing man of that kind that would dare to bring such a girl... ...rters, where his own appear- ances were extremely rare. The dissimilar but united loyalties of those two people had been rewarded by the title of baro...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...annot get the stream without a piece of the land which belongs to Hodnet’s farm, for which they make astounding bids; but, any way, nothing can be don... ...h hope of seeing this brother again. He had left the proceeds of his sheep-farm between Lancelot, Ber- nard, and Angela. Thus had passed about fourtee... ...he account, which she illustrated by the discoveries she had made from the united witnesses. “And is it not delightful to see for once what Gerald rea... ...ch to get hold of in her; but Mrs. Henderson takes interest in her marble- workers, and the girl is the sort of refined, impressible crea- ture that o... ... is to try it for a year, while Cousins Fernan and Marilda go out to their farm in the Rocky Mountains.” Just then there was a little commotion, and a...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

...lands and on all seas; Pov- erty invades even the Royal Exchequer, and Tax-farming can squeeze out no more; there is a quarrel of twenty-five years’ s... ...s, make glad the spicy board of rich ministering Dowager, of philo- sophic Farmer-General. O nights and suppers of the gods! Of a truth, the long-demo... ...Espremenil, a most patriotic Oath, of the One-and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new-idea, which, in these coming years, shall n... ...ntation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...ficient!’ (Histoire Parlementaire, i. 335.) The Rennes people have elected Farmer Gerard, ‘a man of natural sense and rectitude, with- out any learnin... ... along with the Genevese Dumont. (Dumont, Souvenirs sur Mirabeau, p. 305.) Workers and onlookers make reverent way for him; fling verses, flowers on h...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...other was the unmarried daughter of a vil- lage woman, employed on a dairy farm, which belonged to two maiden ladies who were landowners. This unmar- ... ...e fate, had it not so happened that one of the maiden ladies came into the farmyard to scold the dairymaids for sending up cream that smelt of the cow... ...now advised the young prince, they had not better increase their stock and farm all the land now rented by the peasants themselves. The steward wrote ... ..., nervously jerking her head. “I’m getting the din- ner; going to feed the workers.” “And what are you going to have for dinner?” “Our food is very go... ...red and that an important change was going on in her soul, and this change united him not only to her but also to Him for whose sake that change was b... ...vlovna in her turn, and she learned to love Katusha. These women were also united by the repulsion they both felt to sexual love. The one loathed that... ...he masses can only be the object of our activity, but cannot be our fellow-workers as long as they remain in that state of inertia they are in at pres... ...e and in you and in him. So that if every one believes himself all will he united. Every one he himself, and all will be as one.” The old man spoke lo...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...be conceived. Com- pelled to relinquish her first engagement, she had been united to a man of twice her own years, to whom she became an exemplary wif... ... wreathed of the brightest roses that had grown there, so, in the tie that united them, were intertwined all the purest and best of their early joys. ... ...t; they entered also into his heart, and became imperceptible but powerful workers to- wards an end which his most secret thought had not yet whispere... ... nearly all the younger males. Pearson found it difficult to sustain their united and disapproving gaze, but Dorothy, whose mind was differently circu... ...eteen of whom received it all for gospel. But the twentieth was an elderly farmer, who had arrived on horseback a short time before, and was now seate... ...that he was murdered exactly in that way.” “But I can take mine,” said the farmer, “that if Squire Higginbotham was murdered night before last, I dran... ...ed Dominicus Pike. “I guess he’ d have mentioned, if it was,” said the old farmer; and he removed his chair back to the corner, leaving Do- minicus qu...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...o his brother. “Delighted that you’ve come. For some time, is it? How’s your farming get ting on?” Levin knew that his elder brother took little inte... ...ing get ting on?” Levin knew that his elder brother took little interest in farming, and only put the question in deference to him, and so he only to... ...ng him, that he was satisfied with himself in that matter. In addition to his farming, which called for special attention in spring, and in addition to... ...iving, feigning, and continu ally thinking of others, when the passion that united them was so intense that they were both oblivious of everything el... ...understood the matter better than any of them, collecting together a gang of workers to help him, principally of his own family, became a partner in t... ...women and girls he thought of whom he knew, he could not think of a girl who united to such a degree all, positively all, the qualities he would wish ... ...hat he had always desired too for his future family life. And this girl, who united all these qualities, loved him. He was a modest man, but he could ...

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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...s this lead?” “It comes out at Abbotstoke, but I have to go to an outlying farm.” “Papa,” said Norman, after a few minutes, “I wish you would let me d... ... on his eyelashes. “I’ll leave you here,” said Dr. May; “I have to go to a farm- house close by, in the hollow behind us; there’s a girl recov- ering ... ...net; but, in general, everything has gone on very well, and he has a great farm, besides an office under government.” “Oh, so he went out as a settler... ...red three cheers for “May senior!” shouted with a thorough goodwill by the united lungs of the Whichcote foundation, and a supplementary cheer arose f... ...s to all, she seemed to have a double charm for him. It was as if he found united in her the quaint brusquerie, that he had loved in her father, with ... ...’s ribbon, from Miss Rich down to Miss Boulder. The point carried by their united influence was Charity Elwood’s being sent for six months’ finish at ... ...r at Cocksmoor. A kind message from Miss May has an effect that the active workers cannot always produce.” Mrs. Arnott saw that Meta was right, when, ...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...d. With a portion of this property Mr Godfrey Nickleby pur- chased a small farm, near Dawlish in Devonshire, whither he retired with his wife and two ... ...nd pounds in cash, and to his youngest son, Nicholas, one thousand and the farm, which was as small a landed estate as one would desire to see. These ... ...tty well!’ echoed Mr Bonney. ‘It’s the finest idea that was ever started. “United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muf- fin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual D... ...nto consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour of the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Del... ...heart than another, that one object was the welfare and ad- vantage of the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Del... ...s, originally made for tops, which might have been once worn by some stout farmer, but were now too patched and tattered for a beggar. Heaven knows ho... ...le scene in which he suddenly found himself. There were all the young-lady workers, some with bonnets and some without, in various attitudes expressiv...

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Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...d, His omnipotence, His aversion to sin, His being a consuming fire to the workers of iniquity; how, as He had made us all, He could destroy us and al... ...rable sum of money in their hands for my account, being the produce of the farm while their fathers held the trust, and before it was given up, as abo... ...apers enclosed:- First, there was the account-current of the produce of my farm or plantation, from the year when their fathers had bal- anced with my... ...260 Robinson Crusoe poor Spaniards, how they afterwards agreed, disagreed, united, separated, and how at last the Spaniards were obliged to use violen...

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