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The 13 TravellersThe Thirteen TravellersSomewhere in the early nineties was Absalom Jay's first period. He was so well known a figure in London at that time as to be frequently caricatured in the weekly society journals, and Spy's "Absalom," that appeared in the 1894 volume of...
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Splashing Into SocietySplashing Into SocietySuch were the stranes that smote the air as Mr.Harold Withersquash drew near to the humbel home of his Selia. She was just a low born girl but none could beat her at playing the piano. But now the delicious Selia pushed...
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Tales of a Cruel CountryTales of a Cruel CountryThen came sudden alarms; hurryings to and fro; trepidations of innumerable fugitives, I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad; darkness and lights; tempest and human faces; and at last, with the sense that all was lost,...
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Verses and SonnetsVerses and Sonnets Title: Verses and Sonnets Author: Hilaire Belloc Release Date: September 8, 2019 [EBook #60263] Language: English Credits: Produced by Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by...
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The Five Nations, Volume IIThe Five Nations, Volume II... On the th instant a mixed detachment of colonials left for Cape Town, there to rejoin their respective homeward-bound contingents, after fifteen months service in the field. They were escorted to the station by the regular troops in garrison...
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The Five Nations, Volume IThe Five Nations, Volume I... Consider that the meritorious services of the Sergeant Instructors attached to the Egyptian Army have been inadequately acknowledged.... To the excellence of their work is mainly due the great improvement that has taken place in the soldiers of H.H....
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The Noble RogueThe Noble RogueTranscriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain. M. Legros,...
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SheavesSheavesBy E. F. BENSON Author of The Angel of Pain, Dodo, etc. FOURTH EDITION New York Doubleday, Page & Company Copyright, 1907, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published, October, 1907 All Rights Reserved Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages Including the Scandinavian {1}...
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Stories of the EastStories of the EastMany people did not like Jessop. He had rather a brutal manner sometimes of telling brutal thingsthe truth, he called it. "They don't like it," he once said to me in a rare moment of confidence. "But why the devil shouldn't...
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PoemsPoemsMost or these verses have appeared in the papersThe Nation, New Statesman, Cambridge Magazineto the editors of which I tender customary dues. Also, in 1917, a dozen were brought together to make a little book, Ad Familiares, of which a hundred copies were printed...
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The Priest and the AcolyteThe Priest and the Acolyte - With an Introductory Protest by Stuart MasonSO [5] many copies of The Priest and the Acolyte have been sold by unscrupulous publishers and booksellers under the implication that it is the work of Oscar Wilde that it has...
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The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman, A.D. 1940The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman, A.D. 1940That is the crux. England is being wounded by Englishmen; and the events imagined in this story are only a concrete example of the possibilities foreshadowed by Mr. Balfour (Jan. 24th, 1910)...
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Vignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and SentimentVignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and SentimentOn the roof of the ruined church we lay, basking amid the hot, powdery heather; the cinder-coloured roofs of the town flattened out beneath usa ragged patch of dead, decayed colour, burnt, as it seemed, out of...
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A complete collection of genteel and ingenious conversation, according to the most polite mode and method now used at court, and in the best companies of EnglandPolite Conversation in Three DialoguesAs my Life hath been chiefly spent in consulting the Honour and Welfare of my Country for more than Forty Years past, not without answerable Success, if the World and my Friends have not flattered me; so, there is no...
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Bedouin LoveBedouin LoveJames Champernowne Tundering-West, or, as for the time being he preferred to be called, Jim Easton, sat himself down on the camp-bedstead in the middle of the one habitable room of a derelict rest-house, built on the edge of the desert some distance...
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A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the GreatA Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the GreatThe visit of Alexander to Jerusalem is recorded by Josephus only. The fact that it is not mentioned by Arrian, who had contemporary diaries before him, by Quintus Curtius, or by Diodorus Siculus, certainly throws...
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The Children of the Abbey: A TaleThe Children of the Abbey: A Tale CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER...
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Mrs. AmesMrs. AmesCertainly the breakfast tongue, which was for the first time that morning, was not of the pleasant reddish hue which Mrs. Altham was justified in expecting considering that the delicacy in question was not an ordinary tinned tongue (you had to take things...
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Fancies Versus FadsFancies Versus FadsI HAVE strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many...
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Three PlaysThree PlaysI wanted not to write an introduction to these three plays, but circumstances are too strong for me. Yet, after all, what is to be said but, to the public, Here they are; like them, and, to the critics, Here they are; fall...
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