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...n unruly, spoiled children for a living, and about the ability of wealth and status to destroy social values. After her father's death, Agnes opens a small school with her mother and finds happiness with a man who loves her for herself. They have three children at the end of the novel, Edward, Agnes and Mary (Wikipedia)...

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...rt to every endeavor. When the Dashwoods - mother Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor, Marianne, and youngest sister Margaret - are sent, almost impoverished, to a small cottage in Devonshire after the death of their father and the machinations of their brother's wife, they accept their new circumstances with as much cheer as they can muster even though their brother and his wife have t...

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...here you could not resent it, stung your patience? These are the pebbles small men throw at great. Arnold. No. 'Tis the season for my wounds to a... ...It is a record We may be proud of in the family. You and your brothers, Edward, George, and Robert, Are dedicated soldiers to the King. England,...

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...Snakelex is a first class demon on assignment to a small country town in Australia. Spiritual warfar.. Snakelex is a first class demon on assignment to a small country town in Australia. Spiritual warfare will be battled out between good and evil. Snakelex must use every dirt...

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...ing board, God was busy town planning and allocated a plot of earth for a small, sleepy, rural town. As God often does, He gave this town a name wit... ...fection of tourists, who from time to time accidentally stumble upon this small community. It is one of those places that the world has forgotten an... ...once did a booming trade in whitewash. Unbeknown to the residents of this small town, they were the subjects of an intense spiritual dispute. The Al... ... instructions, having already taken up strategic positions throughout the small town. One mighty angel in particular, who was on assignment in anoth... ...d Stella had been watching the clock awaiting the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sully. The couple showed up Friday afternoon at one thirty, on the ... ... Sullys were not what they had imagined them to be. In his early sixties, Edward Sully stood tall, slender with drawn facial features and thin white ... ...in conversation that her husband had applied for the permanent position. Edward continuously spoke of long-term plans for ‘his’ new congregation. O... ... rude and offensive. He could only pray these traits would not reflect in Edward’s sermons and that the congregation would accept them. Philip tried ... ... church pews were full and after an introduction from Tom Hancock, Pastor Edward Sully rose to the occasion. He greeted the congregation with a warm...

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...must remember, though you will not un- derstand, that all laws weaken in a small and hidden community where there is no public opinion. When a man is ... ...ll! ‘Polly, are you afraid of diphtheria?’ ‘Of nothing in the world except small-pox, Diphtheria kills, but it doesn’t disfigure. Why do you ask?’ ‘Be... ... regiment to come on. The regiment was not anxious to comply, for there is small honor in being shot by a fel- low-private. Only Corporal Slane, rifle... ...ed dog-cart turned into the compound gates, and Orde rose saying: “Here is Edwards, the Master of the Lodge I neglect so diligently, come to talk abou... ...rn of much practice: “But this is also my friend, my old and valued friend Edwards. I’m delighted to see you. I knew you were in India, but not exactl... ...ew you were in India, but not exactly where.” “Then it isn’t accounts, Mr. Edwards,” said Orde, cheerily. “Why, no, sir; I heard Mr. Pagett was coming... ...Year I thought I would drive over and see him.” “A very happy thought. Mr. Edwards, you may not know, Orde, was a leading member of our Radical Club a... ...e meeting an old friend, except, perhaps, making a new one. I suppose, Mr. Edwards, you stick to the good old cause?” “Well, you see, sir, things are ... ...g much. He wants the blood of the people in the next village, who have had small- pox and cattle plague pretty badly, and by the help of a wizard, a c...

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...Excerpt: The Morte Darthur was finished, as the epilogue tells us, in the ninth year of Edward IV., i.e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in 1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written before the introduction of printing into this country, and since no manuscript of it has come...

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...Morte Darthur was finished, as the epilogue tells us, in the ninth year of Edward IV ., i.e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in 1470. It is th... ...f a number of other Lancastrians excluded from a general pardon granted by Edward IV . in 1468, and that a William Mallerye was men- tioned in the sam... ... eleven leaves were supplied from Wynkyn de Worde’s re- print. In 1868 Sir Edward Strachey produced for the present publishers a reprint of Southey’s ... ...on of obso- lete words and omitted phrases. As to the present edition, Sir Edward Strachey altered with so sparing a hand that on many pages differenc... ...ife I made a book unto the excellent prince and king of noble memory, King Edward the Fourth. The said noble gentlemen instantly required me to imprin... ...d the two kings saw them begin to wax wroth on both parties, they leapt on small hackneys, and let cry that all men should depart unto their lodging. ...

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...r we are so poor, so old and poor! …” Then, with a sigh— “But it was not my Edward; no, it was not he that gave a stranger twenty dollars. It is a pi... ...o be near it; it seems a defilement.” She moved to a farther chair… “I wish Edward would come, and take it to the bank; a burglar might come at any m... ...ng at home in his slippers, rich and comfort able.” “I am so sorry for you, Edward, you know that; but be comforted; we have our livelihood; we have ... ... like him, but there’s not another in the town.” “Everybody will grant that, Edward—grant it privately, anyway. For six months, now, the village has b... ...s how to esti “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” Mark Twain 7 mate him. Edward, doesn’t it seem odd that the stranger should appoint Burgess to d... ...An architect and builder from the next State had lately ventured to set up a small business in this unpromising village, and his sign had now been han...

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...esburg, Ohio. Gripped by these stories and sketches of Sherwood Anderson’s small-town “grotesques,” I felt that he was opening for me new depths of ex... ...for. A New York City boy who never saw the crops grow or spent time in the small towns that lay sprinkled across America, I found myself over- whelmed... ...to settle accounts with—but also to release his affection for—the world of small-town America. The dream of an uncondi-tional personal freedom, that h... ...to repeat or surpass his early success. Still, about Winesburg, Ohio and a small num- ber of stories like “The Egg” and “The Man Who Became a Woman” t... ...ntleys and was responsible for the rise of the youngest son, Jesse. Enoch, Edward, Harry, and Will Bentley all enlisted and before the long war ended ... ...tood opposite the gate lead- ing to the Winesburg Cemetery. The two Kings, Edward the father, and Tom the son, were not popular in Winesburg. They wer... ...led it with one blow. He was ar-rested and paid a fine of ten dollars. Old Edward King was small of stature and when he passed people in the street la... ...The son had the heavy walking stick in his hand and sat near the door. Old Edward King walked ner- vously about, scratching his left elbow with his ri... ...talked to the two Kings. There had been an oath, the nervous giggle of old Edward King, and then silence. Now the voice of Joe Welling, sharp and clea...

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...e blowing, And all around his youthful brow Thy cheerful light is glowing! Edward, awake, awake— The golden evening gleams Warm and bright on Arden’s ... ... land. It is not death, but pain That struggles in thy breast— Nay, rally, Edward, rouse again; I cannot let thee rest!” One long look, that sore repr... ..., Might my sad soul rejoice. Dull is thine ear, unheard by thee The still, small voice of Heaven; Thine eyes are dim and cannot see The helps that God...

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... other. if I could do anything to mitigate the soreness, if I could in any small degree add to the good feeling which should exist between two nations... ...f England. He was seated on a horsehair-cov- ered chair in the middle of a small, dingy, ill-furnished private sitting-room. No eloquence of mine coul... ...ith which we are so inclined to visit, not the great outward acts, but the smaller inward politics of our neighbors. And do others spare us? will be t... ...not throw mud again even though mud be thrown at us. I yield the path to a small chimney- sweeper as readily as to a lady; and forbear from an inter- ... ...learned to like them. Rhode Island, as the State is usually called, is the small- est State in the Union. I may perhaps best show its dis- parity to o... ... those who spoke, the smaller outlying colonies of Newfoundland and Prince Edward’s Island. If a scheme for such a govern- ment were projected in Down...

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...ood deal at the United Service Club. He had lately married an heiress in a small way, retired from the army, and settled in a house of hers in a count... ... much about her belongings. The twenty-five pounds was the interest of the small sum, which had remained to poor Captain Allen, when he wound up his a... ... been left, was her mother’s maternal aunt, and had lived on an annuity so small that on her death there had not been funds sufficient to pay expenses... ...ir heads, though the mother had— after the wont of active old ladies—grown smaller and lighter, and the son somewhat more bald and grey, but not a whi... ...lf, and finally, after hours spent over the critical case of the wife of a small tradesman, he had found himself so ill that he had gone to his friend... ...can’t pronounce French, and she never heard of terminology, and she thinks Edward I. killed the bards!” For the girls had spent a day or two with thei... ...tment. So we have her here with Essie to look after her for as long as Sir Edward Fane wants to keep her under him, and you can’t think what a nice li...

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.... The noted preacher, scholar and president of Princeton College, Jonathan Edwards, in his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” put ... ..., intelligent or stupid, sensitive or stolid; it will develop a large or a small brain, a fine one or a poor one, a sensitive nervous system or a defe... ... it will always develop true to its own pattern. The tree may be larger or smaller, more or less symmetrical, stronger or weaker, but always true to t... ...e subject to doubt as to whether the heredity caused the strength, for the smallest particle of luck at some special or vital time may make all the di... ... work. His playground is the street, the railroad yards or vacant lots too small for real play, and fit only for a loafing place for boys like himself... ... bookkeeper or an accountant who grows expert with the pen. He works for a small salary and sees nothing better. He grows familiar with signatures. So...

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...to- gether free from paralysing doubts and scruples. For my part, I have a small idea of the degree of accuracy possible to man, and I feel sure these... ...nd, in his work, the individual characters begin to occupy a comparatively small proportion of that canvas on which armies manoeu- vre, and great hill... ...n society. And in all this generalisation of interest, we never miss those small humanities that are at the opposite pole of excellence in art; and wh... ...ce and talents so misused and stunted; and they seem to prove for ever how small a part is played by reason in the conduct of man’s affairs. Here was ... ...reas’d little livraisons, each composed of a sheet or two of paper, folded small to carry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled ... ...nt principally in London, where he was resident as one of the chaplains of Edward the Sixth; and here he boasts, al- though a stranger, he had, by God...