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The Samovar GirlIt was the music of chains. A column of unfortunates from the big prison on the hill swung down the road and turned into the wide street between the log houses. They were on their way out into the taiga to cut...

The Story of Sir Francis DrakeIt has not been possible, for lack of space, always to tell the old stories in the original words, which are, in almost all cases, the best. If any readers of this book can get a sight of two...

Le grand secretQuon ne sattende pas trouver ici une histoire ou une monographie mthodique de loccultisme. Il y faudrait consacrer des volumes que remplirait forcment une grande partie du fatras que je veux avant tout pargner au lecteur. Je nai dautre dessein que de...

LuolatyttöJo neljnnen kerran otus oli pimen tullessa hiipinyt metsn reunaan jo neljtt kertaa niiden kolmen hirvittvn viikon aikana, jotka hn aaltojen maalle heittmn oli viettnyt tll autiolla rannalla, hn kauhuissaan tarkkaili metsn laidassa vijyv varjomaista hahmoa. Vain vaivoin hn sai hillityksi melkein ylivoimaisen halun...

Lose Blätter: Neue Novellen Weit drauen am uersten Ende von Williamsbourgk, einem Stadtteile Brooklyns, dort, wo die Straen- und Huserreihen bereits durch ausgedehnte Wiesenflchen und ppige Obstplantagen unterbrochen werden, so da die Bezeichnung Stadt daselbst eigentlich nicht mehr zutreffend erscheint, weil die Gegend schon...

L'Empire Japonais et sa vie économiqueI. LEmpire du Japon resta inconnu lEurope jusquau XIIIe sicle, poque laquelle Rubruquis et Marco Polo en dvoilrent lexistence; mais ce nest gure quaprs larrive dans les les japonaises des jsuites portugais, cest--dire au XVIe sicle, que ce pays...

American Horological Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, July 1869: Devoted to Pratical HorologyHowever accurate an instrument for the mensuration of time may be, it would be of little use for close observation unless we have some standard by which to test its performance. We...

Aristotle’s works: - Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful RemediesAt the present time, when so many of the female sex, in the hour of Natures extremity, depend solely upon the skill and practical experience...

Kuningattaren lähettiHnen tekotukkansa jota hn kytti pakosta eik muodin vuoksi virui pydll tomuisten paperien seassa. Hnen pienell lihavalla nenlln, jonka nipukka oli punainen ja pyre kuin kirsikka, olivat sarvisankaiset silmlasit. Hnen silmns olivat kiinni ja suu auki, ja joko suusta tai nenst tai kenties...

ErisFor twenty years Odells marriage had been childless. He had waited in vain for a son,for several sons,and now, after twenty sterile years of hardship, drudgery, and domestic discord, Fanny had given him a girl. How was a man going to get ahead? How...

Godsend to a LadyCasey waved good-by to the men from Tonopah, squinted up at the sun, and got a coal-oil can of water and filled the radiator of his Ford. He rolled his bed in the tarp and tied it securely, put flour, bacon,...

Reminiscences of the Civil WarMy father, Thomas Leeds Mitchel, of Groton, Connecticut, was a cotton merchant in Apalachicola, Florida, a small but important city at the mouth of the Chattahoochie River. As there were few railroads, all the cotton raised in the interior was...

Paris de siècle en siècle: Le Cœur de Paris — Splendeurs et souvenirscrasement de lantique cit.Ce que reprsente ltroit espace entre Notre-Dame et le palais.Ltablissement des Francs.Le palais gallo-romain devient le palais des chefs mrovingiens.Clotilde et les fils de Clodomir.Frdgonde Paris.Les deux ponts de...

Model Aeroplanes and Their Engines: A Practical Book for BeginnersHistory tells uswhat some of us luckier ones heard the Wright Brothers themselves tellthat the Wrights active work in aronautics was a result of the interest aroused by a toy helicopter presented to them by...

The Jews in Great Britain - Being a Series of Six Lectures, Delivered in the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, on the Antiquities of the Jews in England. The text may show quotations within quotations, all set off by similar quote marks. The inner quotations have...

I due Desiderii Ragioni darte che non sto a dichiarare, ma che tu intenderai senza fatica, mi avevano consigliato fin da principio a non disporre questo romanzo in capitoli, e in ultimo a tacerlo, accennandovi solo da lontano il tanto che bastasse a illuminare...

Népek az ország használatábanElment a magyar embr legjobb bartja. Nem lesz tbbet ujsg dedegtiv, aki a szlvel a vrosvgn alkudozzon, aki igazltval megnzze a szegny asszony szive bajt s aki a gondolkodszkben lve, ugy kiteremtse irson t, ezt az egsz bcsletes, kedves, ers, igaz,...

Le dimanche avec Paul Cézanne (souvenirs)Si javais aim la peinture, en 1901, comme je laime aujourdhui, je crois que jaurais pu crire un beau livre sur Paul Czanne, mais jtais soldat de deuxime classe Aix-en-Provence et javais vingt ans. Lautre jour, aprs un petit...

Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Vol. 1It has always appeared to me, that to give to the public some account of the life of a person of eminent merit deceased, is a duty incumbent on survivors. It seldom happens that such...

Venti anni dopo In una stanza del cos detto palazzo Cardinal, a noi gi noto, accanto a un tavolino intarsiato su gli angoli dargento dorato ed ingombro di fogli e libri, sedeva un uomo, posatasi su le due mani la testa. E dietro ad...