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Operation DistressBill Adams was halfway back from Mars when he noticed the red rash on his hands. He'd been reaching for one of the few remaining tissues to cover a sneeze, while scratching vigorously at the base of his neck. Then he saw the...

Butterfly 9"This beanery is too noisy and hot," he grumbled. "I can't eat. Can't talk. Can't think." He took a silver pillbox from his pocket and fumbled for a black one. Those were vitamin pills; the big red and yellow ones were sleeping capsules....

Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist - Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals.Zoology is that branch of Natural History which treats of animals, and embraces not only their structure and functions, their habits, instincts, and utility, but their names and...

The Regimental Records of the British Army - A historical résumé chronologically arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc.Nicknames."The Cheeses:" when re-modelled in 1788 the veterans declined to serve, alleging that the regiments of Life Guards then consisted of cheesemongers, not...

The Convict: A TaleIt may be very well in most cases to plunge, according to the rule of the Latin poet, into the middle of things. It may be very well even, according to the recommendation of Count Antoine Hamilton, to 'begin with the...

The Australian Victories in France in 1918The renown of the Australians as individual fighters, in all theatres of the Great War, has loomed large in the minds and imagination of the people of the Empire. Many stories of the work they did have been...

Picrate et SiméonUn vacarme de roulettes forcenes, endiables, tonna. Les gens qui se trouvaient au bas de la rue de Rome, vers langle de la gare Saint-Lazare, regardrent et virent dvaler, au long du trottoir, un cul-de-jatte qui avait pris le mors aux dents....

DegenerationThe notion of degeneracy, first introduced into science by Morel, and developed with so much genius by yourself, has in your hands already shown itself extremely fertile in the most diverse directions. On numerous obscure points of psychiatry, criminal law, politics, and sociology, you...

XXXII Ballades in Blue China [1885]Friend, when you bear a care-dulled eye, And brow perplexed with things of weight, And fain would bid some charm untie The bonds that hold you all too strait, Behold a solace to your fate, Wrapped in this covers...

Turun linnaLieneekhn yhtn Suomen maan asukasta, joka ei kumminkin nimeksi tunne vanhaa Turun kaupunkia? Tuskin kyll. Historiamme lehdeill on sen kaupungin nimi niin usein mainittu, ett siit varmaan voimme ptt tss seudussa tapahtuneiden seikkojen olleen siit arvosta, ett kumminkin paikkakunnan nimi on levinnyt joka...

The Train Wire: A Discussion of the Science of Train Dispatching - (Second Edition)In the first edition of this book, issued in 1883, Mr. Anderson, then Superintendent of the Belvidere Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, modestly disclaiming perfection for his work, ventured the prediction...

Kristityn vaellus: Tästä maailmasta siihen kun tuleva onJohn Bunyanin elmkerrasta muutama piirre. Tekijlt kirjansa puolustukseksi. Tekij alkaa kertoa unennstns: Ryysyihin puettu mies levotonna taakkansa thden. Pelk hukkuvansa kotikaupunkinsa hvityksess. Mies valittaa tuskaansa omaisilleen, mutta turhaan. Evankelista osoittaa tien Ahtaalle Portille. Itsepinen ja Taipuvainen saavuttavat...

Delphine Gay, Mme de Girardin, dans ses rapports avec Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Rachel, Jules Sandeau, Dumas, Eugène Sue et George Sand (documents inédits)Note sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a...

A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms - or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite MeaningWishing to have an extensive list of Synonyms and Antonyms for another project, I settled on Fallows amazing publication. However, I could not find an OCR text which was clear...

Fairlop and Its Founder; or, Facts and Fun for the Forest Frolickers.THIS curious and interesting account, written by a gentleman of Essex, intimate with one of the descendants of Mr. Daniel Day, will afford us an instance of its being in the power of...

The Semantic WarThe rain pours down chill out of a sullen sky. My pace quickens as I try to regain the relative warmth and shelter of the cavern before I become thoroughly drenched. I cannot afford to catch a cold. All alone as I...

Appointment In TomorrowThe first angry rays of the sunwhich, startlingly enough, still rose in the east at 24 hour intervalspierced the lacy tops of Atlantic combers and touched thousands of sleeping Americans with unconscious fear, because of their unpleasant similarity to the rays from...

Das Nest der Zaunkönige - Erzählung aus dem Anfang des 11. JahrhundertsWo die Geisa das Wasser ihrer Quellen in die Fulda giet, lag zwischen Wiesen und fruchtbaren Feldern das Kloster Herolfsfeld. Hohe Frsten des Himmels waren seine Beschtzer, denn die Klosterkirche umschlo die Reliquien...

Venus is a Man's WorldI've always said that even if Sis is seven years older than meand a girl besidesshe don't always know what's best. Put me on a spaceship jam-packed with three hundred females just aching to get themselves husbands in the one...

Avec les Poilus: Maman la Soupe et son chat RatuGrisatre et morne, la plaine s'tendait sous le ciel maussade: il ne restait plus rien du village; tout tait en miettes sur le sol, croul, brl, pulvris. Par-ci, par-l, un pied de table, une cage...