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Eräitä kertoelmiaEräitä kertoelmia"Mutta ajatelkaa toki painetta", sanoi luutnantti. "Veden pinnalla on neljtoista naulaa tuumalla, kolmekymment jalkaa alempana kaksi kertaa niin paljo; kuusikymment, kolme; yhdeksnkymment, nelj kertaa; yhdeksnsataa neljkymment kertaa; viisituhatta kolmesataa peninkulma on kaksisataa neljkymment kertaa neljtoista naulaa; se on odottakaas kolmekymment sentneri puolitoista tonnia,...
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Sea PlunderSea PlunderCaptain Blood used to come down to McGinnis wharf every afternoon to have a look round. The Captain was an Irishman of the black-haired, grey-eyed type from the west coasta relic of the wreck of the Spanish Armada. The Spanish strain in the...
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The Scratch PackThe Scratch Pack"If there even appeared to be the faintest reason for his not going into something," said Gheena severely. Then she put her hand on the collar of the nondescript cur named Crabbit, an animal which was not precisely an Irish terrier and...
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Ignorant EssaysIgnorant EssaysMy most ingenious friend met me one day, and asked me whether I considered I should be richer if I had the ghost of sixpence or if I had not the ghost of sixpence. And do you think when you add one more...
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Some Poems of Roger CasementSome Poems of Roger CasementIn giving these few poems of Roger Casement to the Irish people I do not claim for them any special value as Irish literature. Roger Casement was not a poet, he would have been the last to lay claim to...
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A Day with Robert Louis StevensonA Day with Robert Louis Stevenson Supposing that in the month of April, 1886, you had arrived, a guest foreseen, at the pleasant ivy-muffled dwelling in Bournemouth, which had recently adopted the name of Skerryvore, and that you had been permitted to enter its...
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The Standard BearerThe Standard BearerIn this fresh and charming story, which in some respects recalls The Lilac Sunbonnet, Mr. Crockett returns to Galloway and pictures the humor and pathos of the life which he knows so well. In no one of his books does Mr. Crockett...
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Wood and Stone: A RomanceWood and Stone: A RomanceThe following narrative gathers itself round what is, perhaps, one of the most absorbing and difficult problems of our age; the problem namely of getting to the bottom of that world-old struggle between the well-constituted and the ill-constituted, which the...
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Rhymes of Northern BardsRhymes of Northern Bards - Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and DurhamGive me the writing of all the Ballads, for the people of England, and let who will be...
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The Men of the 90sThe Men of the NinetiesThe day Beardsley left his stool and ledger in a London insurance office and betook himself seriously to the illustration of that strange comic world of Congreve, a new manifestation of English art blossomed. It had, no doubt, been a...
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The Admiral's DaughterThe Admiral's DaughterSpring had come to the West Country, a joyous spring laden with soft airs and odours of distant flowering lands, and filling the hearts of men with a restless delight. It seemed impossible not to be happy, with a blue sky flecked...
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The High TobyThe High Toby - Being further chapters in the life and fortunes of Dick Ryder, otherwise Galloping Dick, sometime gentleman of the roadMy Dear Barrie,It is all but twenty years since we were first acquainted, for if we live till the spring of 1908,...
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Excursions in Victorian BibliographyExcursions in Victorian BibliographyTHE VICTORIA REGIA: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose. Edited by Adelaide A. Procter. London: Printed and Published by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press (for the Employment of Women), Great Coram Street, W.C. 1861. 1 vol. Royal...
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Self-Doomed: A NovelSelf-Doomed: A NovelI am truly glad to see you; this meeting has warmed my heart. It is one of life's pleasantest experiences to shake the hand of an old friend, and to learn from his own lips that he has not forgotten you in...
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The Murder of DeliciaThe Murder of DeliciaThe following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disapproval of the 'superior' sex. They will assert, with much indignant emphasis, that the character of 'Lord Carlyon' is an...
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Outline of the history of the English language and literatureOutline of the history of the English language and literatureThe object of this book, as indicated in the title, is to give an outline of the History of the English Language and Literature. It aims, however, at being something more than a mere statement...
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The 9 of Hearts: A NovelThe Nine of Hearts: A NovelThis morning, at the Central Criminal Court, Mr. Justice Fenmore resumed the trial of Edward Layton for the wilful murder of his wife, Agnes Layton, on the morning of the 26th of March, by the administration of poisonous narcotics...
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Songs of the Glens of AntrimSongs of the Glens of AntrimTHE SONG OF GLEN DUN CORRYMEELA MARRIAGE SEA WRACK A BROKEN SONG THE FAIRY LOUGH A SONG OF GLENANN "FORGETTIN'" DENNY'S DAUGHTER LOST "CUTTIN' RUSHES" "THE OULD LAD" THE RACHRAY MAN BIRDS JOHNEEN "BEAUTY'S A FLOWER" THE BOY FROM...
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At the Sign of the Silver FlagonAt the Sign of the Silver FlagonIt is December, and the sun marks the record of a hundred and six in the shade. We are at the golden end of the world, in Australia, at Silver Creek, twelve months ago a wilderness, now a...
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Devlin the BarberDevlin the BarberThe manner in which I became intimately associated with a fearful mystery with which not only all London but all England was ringing, and the strange, inexplicable Being whom the course of events brought to my knowledge, are so startling and wonderful,...
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