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The Last MartianPeetn drew his cloak more firmly about his furry shoulders as the sun began to sink through the Martian sky and the wind throbbed a deeper note in the gathering darkness. He stood gazing silently as the fading light painted the sky...

The Ballad of Venus Nell The Ballad of Venus Nell By Nelson S. Bond [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories Spring 1942. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Oh, the science...

The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. V. Being the First of the Third VoyageThe spirit of discovery, which had long animated the European nations, having, after its arduous and successful exertions during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, gradually subsided, and...

The Middle Five: Indian Boys at SchoolAs the object of this book is to reveal the true nature and character of the Indian boy, I have chosen to write the story of my school-fellows rather than that of my other boy friends who knew...

Rick and Ruddy Out WestChot Benson called to his chum Rick Dalton who was racing down the Belemere street with every appearance of being in great haste. He was not going to a trainthat was evident, for he was hatless and coatlessand though Rick...

Oeuvres complètes, tome 6Qu'on ne soit pas surpris du ton passionn qui rgne dans quelques-unes des lettres de Sterne Eliza. Tous les sentimens d'affection se confondoient dans son ame et n'y conservoient aucune nuance distincte: l'amiti y prenoit aisment la forme de l'amour, c'est--dire,...

The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-upon-TyneThe compiler of these pages does not labour under the delusion that he has written a book. All that he has attempted has been, as it were, to invite his reader to an arm-chair in his study, and...

Favole per i Re d'oggi Un giorno la Verit, nuda cos, com' solita andare pe' 'l mondo, si present al trono di un re. Appena si seppe chi era e quel che voleva dire, subito le piovvero addosso mille villanie, e il re, pi...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1022, July 29, 1899 THE ANGEL OF PROMISE! THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. ABOUT PERGOLAS, AND MISS JEKYLLS WOOD AND GARDEN. OUR PUZZLE POEMS: AN ACCIDENTAL CYCLE. IN THE TWILIGHT SIDE BY SIDE. FROCKS FOR TO-MORROW. THE...

Kun naiset pelkäävät: Yksinäytöksinen huvinäytelmäVAPPU (kiivaasti). Sin emnt! Niin sit sin olet laulanut aivan siit asti, kun Matti-poikani sinut thn otti. Mutta sen sanon sinulle, ett min tss emntn heilun niinkauan kun pni pystyss pysyy, enk alistu kenenkn kskettvksi. NIITTYNEN. Samaa mekin kotona arvelimme....

Merenvirta: Lasten Punainen Huvitus IIJumala on maalle luonut jokija maata kastelemaan ja liikaa vett maalta pois saattamaan, josta ne, jotka joen rannalla elvt, sek ihmiset ett luontokappaleet, suuresti iloitsevat. Kaunis ruoho kasvaa joen rannalla, puut hytyvt lihaviksi ja kalat ravitsevat ihmisi, jotka veneill ja...

ThackerayAMID all the eulogies and all the slanders that are lavished upon the English character, very few people would appear to take any real trouble to obtain a sincere view of it. Rhetorical phrases about its inarticulate strength and nobility do not commonly bring...

Pied Piper of MarsIn all the solar system there is no city quite like Mercis, capital of Mars. Solis, on Venus, is perhaps more beautiful, some cities of Earth certainly have more drive and dynamitism, but there is a strange inscrutable air about Mercis...

The Deceased Wife's Sister, and My Beautiful Neighbour, v. 3I found Martelli to be more useful to me than I could have expected. He had called himself practical, and he was practical. He was used to the punctilious regularity of schools, to the difficult...

Bei uns im Arzgebirg': Heiteres aus dem ErzgebirgeDe Mitglieder von Kegelklub Feuergeister in Altstadtel warn abn mit Kegeln fertig und ginge vir in der Gaststub, d s' sollt noch Hauptversammling sei. 's dauret net lang, soen se in klen Biffetstebel im Tisch rim, un...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1021, July 22, 1899 AFTER THE STORM. THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. BOOKS BEFORE TRAVEL. THE COURTSHIP OF CATHERINE WEST. SHEILAS COUSIN EFFIE. DIET IN REASON AND IN MODERATION. OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES. CHRONICLES OF AN ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN...

The Timber PirateNights sable curtain was soon to fall on the short-lived drama of a Winter day in the Laurentians. The departing sub-arctic sun, in its last pale glory, sent up from the omnipresent whiteness myriads of glistening beams that stabbed the eyes like...

John Cheap, the Chapman's Library. Vol. 1: Comic and Humorous - The Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, ClassifiedA name is very often only a definition of a thing in one of its aspectsgenerally the most obvious to ordinary observation, though not always the...

Cathalina at GreycliffIn these chapters the author has used her own family names, to which she fancies she has a right. There are, however, some changes; it was, for instance, a Katherine Knickerbocker who married a Van Buskirk. The Aunt Katherine of the story...

Queen of the Blue WorldIt was hot there in the tiny cabin of the wing with the rocket blasts thrumming behind them. Rurak dropped the sweat-sticky circle of his radiophone and peered down at the foul blueness of the swampland. A range of low...