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Bashful FifteenThe school stood on the side of a hill, which faced downward to the sea. Its aspect was south, and it was sheltered from the east and west winds by a thick plantation of young trees, which looked green and fresh in the...

Oeuvres complètes, tome 3Ces dissertations subtiles et savantes avoient charm mon pre; et cependant, proprement parler, elles n'avoient fait que verser du baume sur sa blessure.Son attente se trouvoit trompe.La tache du nom de Tristram restoit indlbile;et quand mon pre fut de retour chez...

Phantom of the Seven StarsLovely Brenda Carson, scholarly Jerome, pompous Livingston ... everyone aboard the Seven Stars scoffed at the idea of a Phantom Pirate. But I.P. agent Jim Fanning didn't laugh. He knew the luxury-liner's innocent looking cargo was already marked for plunder....

The Runaway Equator, and the Strange Adventures of a Little Boy in Pursuit of ItMOTHER had been helping Billy with his geography lesson, sitting in the garden on a lovely day early in spring, and showing Billy how the earth revolves on its axis....

Frank Merriwell's False Friend; Or, An Investment in Human NatureA half million enthusiastic followers of the Merriwell brothers will attest the unfailing interest and wholesomeness of these adventures of two lads of high ideals, who play fair with themselves, as well as with the...

Kittens and Cats: A First ReaderWhen a new school Reader comes to the hands of the primary teacher, she naturally asks: Will this book give to my class of boys and girls a healthy stimulus of thought and pleasure? Will they receive through it...

El crimen y el castigoNota del Transcriptor: Se ha respetado la ortografa y la acentuacin del original. Errores obvios de imprenta han sido corregidos. Pginas en blanco han sido eliminadas. La portada fue diseada por el transcriptor y se considera dominio pblico. Una tarde...

Riesen und Drachen der Vorzeit. Geschichte der Erde, Dritter TeilDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1921 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen sowie Schreibvarianten bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert, sofern...

Dalla spuma del mare Si danno le curiose combinazioni nel mondo. Io aveva lasciato appena quel quartierino al terzo piano, e mi era piaciuto vedendolo, e continuava a piacermi per istrada pensandoci, e me ne andavo del mio passo solito a descriverlo alla mia...

Kristiina Lauritsantytär 1 (of 3): SeppeleIvar Gjeslingin, Sundbyn herran kuoleman jlkeisess perinnnjaossa armon vuonna 1306 joutuivat hnen tiluksensa Siliss tyttrelle, Ragnfridille, sek tmn puolisolle Lauritsa Bjrgulfinpojalle. Nm olivat asuneet aikaisemmin Lauritsa Bjrgulfinpojan kartanossa Skogissa, Folion pitjss lhell Osloa, mutta muuttivat nyt Jrundgaardiin, joka sijaitsi...

Tinkle, the Trick Pony: His Many AdventuresTinkle stopped nibbling the sweet, green grass of the meadow, blew a long breath from his nose, raised his head and looked around. Then he blinked his eyes slowly, turned to look first on one side, then on...

The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 10, October, 1883John H. Washburn, Chairman; A.P. Foster, Secretary; Lyman Abbott, Alonzo S. Ball, A.S. Barnes, C.T. Christensen, Franklin Fairbanks, Clinton B. Fisk, S.B. Halliday, Samuel Holmes, Charles A. Hull, Samuel S. Marples, Charles L. Mead, Wm....

Space-Liner X-87The X-87 was a red shambles. It roared the starways, a renegade Venusian at the controls, a swaggering Martian plotting the space-course. And in an alumite cage, deep below-decks, lay Penelle, crack Shadow Squadmanholding the fate of three worlds in his manacled hands....

The Stellar LegionSilence was on the barracks like a lid clamped over tight-coiled springs. Men in rumpled uniformsoutlanders of the Stellar Legion, space-rats, the scrapings of the Solar Systemsweated in the sullen heat of the Venusian swamplands before the rains. Sweated and listened. The...

Exit From Asteroid 60Echo is naturally magnetic, probably more so than any other planetoidand Neal Bormon cursed softly, just to relieve his feelings, as that magnetism gripped the small iron plates on the soles of the rough boots with which the Martians had provided...

The CastawayWho was this bearded castaway of space? Some said he was Jonah. Others thought him a long-lost, mad scientist. But Lieutenant Brait knew him by a name that was old when the world was young. There was an ad in the classified columns...

Tizio Caio Sempronio: Storia mezzo romana Chi? domanderete. Il protagonista del mio racconto, il chiarissimo Tizio Caio Sempronio, cittadino romano, dell'ordine dei cavalieri. Non lo confondete, per carit, coi cavalieri moderni, che sono di pi ordini. A Roma i cavalieri formavano un ordine solo,...

The Running FightOnce, twice, thrice,failing miserably in his attempt to appear unconcerned,Ilingsworth paced back and forth in front of Peter V. Wilkinson's big house in Riverside Drive. There it stood: a massive, forbidding, modern pile of limestone, wholly unlike anything in its vicinity. And...

The Wreck of the CorsaireAll day long there had been a pleasant breeze blowing from abeam; but as the sun sank into the west the wind fined into light, delicate curls of shadow upon the sea that, at the hour of sundown, when the...

Kurjuksen kulukusta pelastunna: Entisestään vähissä meärin loajennettu murrejuttuPari kreikkalaista kirjailijaa toiselta vuosisadalta jlkeen Kristuksen syntymn, Ailianos ja Lukianos, ovat esittneet matkakertomuksia, joissa tmmisest merenkurimuksesta kerrotaan. Edellinen asettaa sen Hyperborealaisten (pohjantakalaisten) maan rajalle, nimitten sit Anostos (mist ei voi palata) ja mainiten sen olevan nieluntapaisen....