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A Damaged ReputationIt was a still, hot night, and the moon hung round and full above the cedars, when rancher Brooke sat in his comfortless shanty with a whisky bottle at his hand. The door stood open, and the drowsy fragrance of the coniferous...

A DamokosokLm megmondta j elre Kprili nagyvezr Rkczy Gyrgy nagyfejedelemnek: ne menj te Lengyelorszgba, kirlysgot keresni; mert bizony gy jrsz, mint a teve: a ki odament Allah el, azt kvetelve, hogy adjon neki szarvakat, s aztn Allah mg a fleit is levgta neki. Egszen...

A Damsel in Distress[Transcriber's Note for edition 11: in para. 4 of Chapter 19, the word "leafy" has been changed to "leaky". "leafy" was the word used in the printed edition, but was an obvious misprint. Some readers have noted that other editions have...

A Dangerous Flirtation; Or, Did Ida May Sin?Neither of the trio could have been over seventeen. All three were dressed in white, and looked as delightfully cool, sweet and airy, with their floating white ribbons and wind-blown curls, as summer maidens can possibly look....

A Danish Parsonage John Hardy had lived with his mother at Hardy Place. His father had died when he was six years of age, and there was consequently a long minority of fifteen years. The greatest influence in John Hardy's life was a trout...

A Dark Chapter from New Zealand HistoryThese pages have been chiefly written for such as desire to forward to distant friends a brief connected account of one of those terrible massacres, accompanied by wholesale destruction of property, which bid fair to depopulate and lay...

A Dark Month - From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V Title: A Dark Month Subtitle: From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne Release Date: June 7, 2006 [EBook #18524] Language: English Credits: Produced by Louise Pryor, Paul Murray and...

A Dark Night's WorkThe certain shire was but a small county, and the principal town in it contained only about four thousand inhabitants; so in saying that Mr. Wilkins was the principal lawyer in Hamley, I say very little, unless I add that he...

A bloody war has ended in a restored peaceAnd the shield of Martian magic guards the starsTwo centuries of spell and steel to ward all humanity Two years ago, Lieutenant Commander Roslyn Chambers stood witness to the surrender of the last remnants of the...

A Dash for a ThroneAs the thought occurred to me I was standing in the library of Gramberg Castle, my hands plunged deep in my pockets, deliberately dallying with my fate, as I watched the black dress of the Prince's beautiful daughter moving slowly...

A Dash from Diamond CityTick, tap, taptap, tickertickertappertapper; tickteck, tackertap went a typewriting machine, and scratchscratch went two pens, in one of the minor offices connected with that vast wealth-producing industry known as the De Beers Diamond-Mines, where, seated at desk and table, three...

Food for thought: seasoning with these berries results in a dash of murder.It's been a quiet autumn so far in the small town of Bradley, North Carolina. Or, as Myrtle would put it, a boring one. The slow pace and lingering post-summer heat are...

A Daughter of Eve In one of the finest houses of the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, at half-past eleven at night, two young women were sitting before the fireplace of a boudoir hung with blue velvet of that tender shade, with shimmering reflections, which French industry...

A Daughter of Fife On the shore of a little land-locked haven, into which the gulls and terns bring tidings of the sea, stands the fishing hamlet of Pittenloch. It is in the East Neuk o Fife, that bit of old Scotland fronted with...

A Daughter of JapanScene.A room in a Japanese house. It is tastefully furnished in a half-English, half-native style. A round table for meals. A sideboard with a tantalus. A piano, and one or two long bamboo chairs. A well-filled book-case. A verandah can be...

A daughter of JehuThe June sun, lighting up the yard of the big white house, lights up a pretty scene. To begin with, the yard is pretty in itself, with its stretch of emerald lawn, its trim gravel sweep, its linden tree, in which...

A Daughter of Raasay: A Tale of the '45When this romance touches history the author believes that it is, in every respect, with one possible exception, in accord with the accepted facts. In detailing the history of the 45 and the sufferings of the...

A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico TodayThe alert black eyes of the young New Mexican wandered discontentedly over the raw ugliness of the camp. Towns straggled here and there untidily at haphazard, mushroom growths of a day born of a...

A Daughter of the ForestMother Angeliques anxious call rang out over the water, once, twice, many times. But, though she shaded her brows with her hands and strained her keen ears to listen, there was no one visible and no response came back to...

A Daughter of the Land Kate Bates followed the narrow footpath rounding the corner of the small country church, as the old minister raised his voice slowly and impressively to repeat the command he had selected for his text. Fearing that her head would...