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Only an Ensign: A Tale of the Retreat from Cabul, Volume 1 (of 3)Only an Ensign: A Tale of the Retreat from Cabul, Volume 1 (of 3) To have entered, more fully than I have done, into the events and fighting prior to the Retreat from Cabul, would have proved unsuitable for the purpose of my story,...
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Some do not...: A novelSome do not...: A novelThe two young menthey were of the English public official classsat in the perfectly appointed railway carriage. The leather straps to the windows were of virgin newness; the mirrors beneath the new luggage racks immaculate as if they had reflected...
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Jewel sowers: a novelJewel sowers: a novelIn the little planet Lucifram, that spun a brilliant and solitary course among the stars, exchanging annual salutations with them as the waxing and waning of the solar laws brought them out of the void and within hail, the people each...
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The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 2 of 2The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 2 of 2[This chap-book was one of the most popular of Grahams productions. It is reprinted here from a unique copy formerly belonging the late Dr. David Laing, and now in the possession...
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Sésame et les lys: des trésors des rois, des jardins des reinesSésame et les lys: des trésors des rois, des jardins des reines Madame la Princesse Alexandre de Caraman-Chimay, dont les Notes sur Florence auraient fait les dlices de Ruskin, je ddie respectueusement, comme un hommage de ma profonde admiration pour elle, ces pages que...
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Bethlehem: A Nativity PlayBethlehem: A Nativity Play Ye Gentles, that come here to watch our play, Put, we beseech you, thought of us away! No standing here have we: in heart we kneel, With, at our hearts, this prayer,that ye may feel How in Loves hands time...
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Idylls of the Sea, and Other Marine SketchesIdylls of the Sea, and Other Marine SketchesMr. Bullens work in literature requires no introduction. If it ever did, it has received one so complete from Mr. Kipling, that not another word is needed. Mr. Kipling, in phrases as happy as they are generous,...
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The Strange VisitationThe Strange VisitationA WILD night, with a gale of wind, a wind that scratched and tore and howled at doors and windows like an angry cat spitting and splutteringits miauling voice now rising, now sinkingat one moment savage, at another querulous, but always incessant...
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Ariel: A Shelley RomanceAriel: A Shelley RomanceIn the year 1809 George III appointed as Headmaster of Eton, Dr. Keate, a terrible little man who considered the flogging-block a necessary station on the road to perfection, and who ended a sermon on the Sixth Beatitude by saying, Now,...
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The Convict Ship, Volume 2 (of 3)The Convict Ship, Volume 2 (of 3)I was awakened from a deep slumber by the glare of a lantern upon my eyes, by the weight of a heavy hand upon my shoulder, and by a deep voice roaring out: Here yare, then! Another convict,...
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Punanen kokardi: Romaani Ranskan vallankumouksen ensi ajoiltaPunanen kokardi: Romaani Ranskan vallankumouksen ensi ajoilta Niinhn ne ystvnne tahtovat, sen huomion olen tehnyt. He kyll osaavat jaaritella veljellisyydest, vapaudesta, yhdenvertaisuudesta; he rakastavat kansaa, mutta mieluimmin etlt, puiston eli korkean kuusiaidan takaa. Minulla on St. Alais'ssa vki silmini alla ja kun he kyttytyvt...
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A Yellow Aster, Volume 3 (of 3)A Yellow Aster, Volume 3 (of 3)Gwen lost no time in conducting her projected series of experiments, she carried them on conscientiously, and with an assumption of spontaneity that gave her husband a high opinion of her powers of self-government. As for the results...
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Morley Ashton: A Story of the Sea. Volume 3 (of 3)Morley Ashton: A Story of the Sea. Volume 3 (of 3) They deplored the death of poor Mr. Quail; but their blood was too much "up," to use a common phrase, and their own peril was too imminent, to permit them indulging in the...
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Morley Ashton: A Story of the Sea. Volume 1 (of 3)Morley Ashton: A Story of the Sea. Volume 1 (of 3) It was the evening of one of the last days of spring, when that delightful season is blending with the approaching summer, and when the sun was setting on one of those green...
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Morley Ashton: A Story of the Sea. Volume 2 (of 3)Morley Ashton: A Story of the Sea. Volume 2 (of 3) "I can't give you iced champagne, as in the gardens at Rio; but the steward has bitter beer, beaujolais, and potash water, with grog for you, Morrison, which I know you prefer; and...
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John Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 2: Religious and ScripturalJohn Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 2: Religious and Scriptural - The Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, ClassifiedAt the Reformation one half of the lands of Scotland were the property of the church. David I. had made over almost the whole of those...
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The Blue Balloon: A Tale of the Shenandoah ValleyThe Blue Balloon: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley Thirty-three years ago, or, to be quite exact, in the month of May 1862, the great civil war in the United States of America was in full swing. The Federals had discovered that their boast...
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Robert Bontine: RomanRobert Bontine: Roman s schien, als ob das Gewitter sich in wenigen Minuten zusammengezogen htte. Den ganzen Tag war das Wetter wunderschn gewesen, warm und sonnig. Es war schwer zu entscheiden, ob der Himmel oder das Meer tiefer blau sei, an ersterem zeigte sich...
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J. Comyns Carr: Stray Memories, by His WifeJ. Comyns Carr: Stray Memories, by His WifeMy husband wrote his own Reminiscences in his two booksSome Eminent Victorians and Coasting Bohemia, and it might justly be brought up against me that I could have nothing to add to what he has said himself....
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The Convict Ship, Volume 1 (of 3)The Convict Ship, Volume 1 (of 3)I was in my twenty-fourth year when I underwent the tragic and amazing experiences which, with the help of a friend, I propose to relate in these pages. I am now seventy-seven; but I am in good health...
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