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Untuvainen y.m. kertomuksiaIhan selvsti nen miehen jykn, laajalierisen silkkihatun, jollaiset olivat kytnnss nelikymmenluvulla, hnen vaalean liivins ja solmitun kaulaliinansa. Nen mys hnen kauniit sileksi ajetut kasvonsa, harvoine, vhptisine poskipartoineen ja hnen korkean, jykn kauluksensa ja miellyttvn arvokkaisuuden hnen pienimmsskin liikkeessn. Hn istuu oikealla puolella...

The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, Division 1; A to Car. - A Practical and Scientific Encyclopædia of HorticultureHE ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF GARDENING aims at being the best and most complete Work on Gardening and Garden Plants hitherto published. The aim is, indeed, a high...

The Three FurlongersThe twilight was dropping over the fields of three countiesSurrey, Kent and Sussexall touching in the woods round Sparrow Hall. In the sky above and in the fields below lights were creeping out one by one. The Great Wain lit up over...

Sigrid Persdotter Bjurcrona: En släktromanSigrid Bjurcrona stod och stirrade p telegrammet, som hon hll i handen. Jungfrun hade alldeles nyss stuckit det till henne, medan hon kldde sig fr teatern. Vrkvllen var nnu s ljus att det fll ett gult skimmer ver det grna...

Auroræ: Their Characters and SpectraProbably few of the phenomena of Nature so entirely charm and interest scientific and non-scientific observers alike as the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights as it is popularly called. Whether contemplated as the long low quiescent arc of silver light...

The Story of Gösta BerlingAt last the minister stood in the pulpit. The heads of the congregation were lifted. Well, there he finally was. There would be no default this Sunday, as on the last and on many other Sundays before. The minister was...

Nether Lochaber - The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West HighlandsThe contents of this volume made their first appearance in the shape of a series of papers from Nether Lochaber in the Inverness Courier, a well-known Northern Journal, long and ably conducted...

Venus im PelzDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1920 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert; ungewhnliche Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert. Rechtschreibvarianten wurden nicht vereinheitlicht, sofern die Verstndlichkeit des Textes dadurch nicht berhrt wird. Das Original...

Fairy Tales from Gold LandsAs a child, I was fond of stories, and well remember the dearth of the intermediate season, when "Jack the Giant Killer," had ceased to please, and I was yet unprepared to enjoy works written for older and more cultivated...

The Man from Bar 20: A Story of the Cow CountryTranscriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber...

Evening TalesOnce upon a time Mr. Wendell P. Garrison, the literary editor of The Nation, sent me a picture he had found in a catalogue of French books. It represented a very interesting scene. There were the Tar-Baby and Brother Rabbit as natural as...

Das Recht der Hagestolze: Eine Heiratsgeschichte aus dem NeckartalEs war in der bereits stark vorgeschrittenen Dmmerung eines warmen Frhlingsabends im Jahre 1397, als ein einsam daherkommender Mnch ber die Neckarbrcke zu Heidelberg auf das Stadttor zuschritt. Seine hohe Gestalt war von der braunen Kutte...

The Benefit of the Doubt; a Comedy in Three ActsThe Scene represents a drawing-room in Mrs. Emptages house near Regents Park. At the back are double doors, opening on to a further drawing-room, and these face a window, over which the blinds are drawn,...

The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 11, November, 1881relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the American Missionary, to Rev. G.D....

A reboursJe pense que tous les gens de lettres sont comme moi, que jamais ils ne relisent leurs uvres lorsqu'elles ont paru. Rien n'est, en effet, plus dsenchantant, plus pnible, que de regarder, aprs des annes, ses phrases. Elles se sont en quelque sorte...

Erakkomaisteri: RomaaniTyhuoneessaan ison kirjoituspydn ress istui lyseon historian ja suomenkielen lehtori, filosofiankandidaatti Samuli Srkk, ja pisteli numeroita taskukirjaansa, siirtkseen ne sielt arvosanoina oppilaille jaettaviin todistuksiin. Toukokuun aurinko paistoi sisn ikkunaverhojen lomitse. Aina vhn pst tytyi lehtorin nousta istuimeltaan ja liihent uutimia enemmn oikealle, jotteivt...

General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3)Be it remembered, that on the seventeenth day of April, A. D. 1822, in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Richardson & Lord, of the said District, have...

The Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great WarThe six chapters of this little book discuss and explain six separate and most important phases of the present war. Every effort has been made to deal with the headings selected as...

Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law - Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales'To the two former Essays, on The English Village Community and The Tribal System in Wales, is now at last added in this...

Folk Lore Notes. Vol. I—GujaratThe circumstances attending the murder of Mr. A. M. T. Jackson in Nasik in December 1909 led to the raising of a small subscription among his friends, to be devoted to a memorial in some shape or form, showing the...