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...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

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... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...refulness and skill, playthings of the elements, and concluded that he was the sport of chance, the plaything of destiny. PORTENTS OF SAFETY AND DISAS... ...ul damsels, skilful in songs and instruments of music and dancing, and to make sports and delights unto men whatsoever they could imagine. They were a... ...ine. They were also richly dressed in gold and silk, and were seen continually sporting in the garden and palaces. He made this palace because Mohamme... ... did not throw her anchor until she came into the roads at Funchal, capital of Madeira Island, where the first accident happened in the drowning of Mr... ...he geology of the island. With a fresh supply of provisions Cook departed from Madeira September 19th, and without adventure reached Rio de Janeiro on...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...: we were athletes with a fine history and a full purse: we had first-rate sporting guns, unrivalled park-hacks and hunters, promising babies to carry... ...ourt and political honours. They were renowned shots, long-limbed stalking sportsmen in field and bower, fast friends, intemperate enemies, handsome t... ...it. Gangs from the metropolis found him too determined and alert for their sport. It was the fac- tiousness of here and there an unbroken young scound... ...ive you, and is more comfortable than the empty house. Stanton takes wine, madeira and claret, and other small necessaries. If Nevil should be very un... ...he bright laughing lad he had once been, and said: ‘Why not try a month of Madeira? You have only to step on board the boat.’ ‘I don’t want to lose a ... ...hear of her, sir, if you please.’ ‘You shall,’ said the earl. ‘But, off to Madeira, and up Teneriffe: sail the Azores. I’ll hire you a good-sized scho...

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...lmost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bless it, and the first trainload of soldiers would come over it, and there would be speeches....

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................ 165 ?BREAD UPON THE WATERS? .............................................................................................. 183 AN ERROR IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION......................................................................... 206 MY SUNDAY AT HOME .............................................................................................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... .... “There is no more justice from the Heavenly Ones. Ye have made shame and sport of Gunga, who asked no more than a few score lives.” “Of my people—wh... ...u sayest, and we shall know. Get thee to thy huts again, beloved, and make sport for the young things, for still Brahm dreams. Go, my chil- dren! Brah... ...black-buck with the young man. He had been bear-led by an English tutor of sporting tastes for some five or six years, and was now royally wasting the... ...d I think he doctors it with liqueurs. But the crown of the feast was some Madeira of the kind you can only come by if you know the wine and the man. ... ...llings out of the firm. McPhee’s enemies were mine, and I was drinking his Madeira. “Ye’ve heard nothing?” said Janet. “Not a word, not a whis- per?” ...

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... fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in England, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fitting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding a spear; or a lady with dogs, in the costume of the day; and in one place she is a nymph, if not Diana hers...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... the driver where to pull up. The sight of a grey-jacketed, green-collared sportsman, dog at heel, crossing the flat land to the hills of the forest, ... ...e halls there below during the day. An imp of mischief offered consolatory sport in those halls of the Black God- dess; already he regarded his recent... ...t of blood. She should make a natural Lady Patroness of England’s National Sports. We might turn her to that purpose; wander over England with a tail ... ... themselves—remarked on the seventy-years Old Brown Sherry, that ‘it had a Madeira flavour.’ He spoke it approvingly. Thereupon Lord Simon Pitscrew ca... ...provingly. Thereupon Lord Simon Pitscrew calls to Queeney, asking him ‘why Madeira had been supplied instead of Esslemont’s renowned old Sherry?’ A se... ...nd Welsh gentleman gave his assurances that his friend had not said it was Madeira. But Lord Brailstone accused them of the worse unkindness to a vene...

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... IV: So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in strands afar remote. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children?s blood; Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields, Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs Of hostile pa...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 , the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ee about thy soul, that thou soldest him on Good Friday last for a cup of Madeira and a cold capon’s leg? PRINCE HENRY : Sir John stands to his word... ...s that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish’... ...u: O, let the hours be short Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport! [Exeunt.] ACT II SCENE I: Rochester. An inn yard. [Enter a Carrier ... ...ng. Tut! there are other Trojans that thou dreamest not of, the which for sport sake are content to do the profession some Henry IV, Part One , Act ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the ...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Evan Harrington by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...bird Mrs. Mel had herself brought down, and she had for him something of a sportsman’s regard for his victim. Dandy was the cleaner of boots and runne... ...rom him monthly. His precise words, his regular ancient jokes, his pint of Madeira and after-pint of Port, his antique bow to the landlady , passing o... ...kept his corner near the fire-place vacant, and took care that his pint of Madeira was there. The belief was gaining ground that he had gone, and that... ...er earthly qualities would fail in effecting, she ordered that the pint of Madeira should stand from six o’clock in the evening till seven—a small mon... ...had no fear of him; he is really admirable with the men—easy, and talks of sport and politics, and makes the proper use of Por- tugal. He has quite wo... ...p in the Court of Portugal, he is barely English. There they have no manly sports. You saw him pass you?’ ‘Him! Who?’ asked Harry. ‘My brother, on the...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Book Eight by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in politics, some in sport, some in wine, and some in governmental affairs. “Nothing is trivial,... ...t down; nonsense! Have a drink!” said Anatole, and filled a large glass of Madeira for him. The driver’s eyes sparkled at the sight of the wine. After... ...the other as a hunted and wounded animal looks at the approaching dogs and sportsmen. “Natalya Ilynichna,” Pierre began, dropping his eyes with a feel...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...pped in a napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “Dry Madeira”... “Hungar- ian”... or “Rhine wine” as the case might be. Of the f... ...s the best time of the year for the chase. The hounds of that ardent young sports- man Rostov had not merely reached hard winter condi- tion, but were... ...e huntsman that he was being carried away by that irresistible passion for sport which makes a man forget all his previous resolu- tions, as a lover f... ...ses and trap were sent home. Count Ilya Rostov, though not at heart a keen sportsman, knew the rules of the hunt well, and rode to the bushy edge of t... ...ad beaten him, and more than once they had made him drunk on champagne and Madeira, which he loved; and he knew more than one thing about each of them... ...t down; nonsense! Have a drink!” said Anatole, and filled a large glass of Madeira for him. The driver’s eyes sparkled at the sight of the wine. After...