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...nexampled even in the literature of that day. Ned Ward’s “Life and Notable Adventures of Don Quixote, mer- rily translated into Hudibrastic Verse” (17... ...get the mere narrative with its full complement of facts, inci- dents, and adventures served up to them in a form that amuses them, care very little w... ...ge as those he had inserted in “Don Quixote” and instead of continuing the adventures of Don Quixote, he set to work to write more of these “Novelas E... ...at this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion of those... ...es. When I heard them talking of bull- fights taking place, and of javelin games, and of acting plays, I asked my brother, who is a year younger than ...

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...ace where he embarked; and leaping ashore in a remote and unknown land has adventures that deserve to be written, not on parchment, but on brass. But ... ...great poet who sang her beauty, the famous Ariosto, not caring to sing her adventures after her contemptible surrender (which probably were not over a... ...,” replied the bachelor, “opinions differ, as tastes do; some swear by the adventure of the windmills that your wor- ship took to be Briareuses and gi... ...es. When I heard them talking of bull- fights taking place, and of javelin games, and of acting plays, I asked my brother, who is a year younger than ...

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...nexampled even in the literature of that day. Ned Ward’s “Life and Notable Adventures of Don Quixote, mer- rily translated into Hudibrastic Verse” (17... ...y get the mere narrative with its full complement of facts, incidents, and adventures served up to them in a form that amuses them, care very little w... ...ge as those he had inserted in “Don Quixote” and instead of continuing the adventures of Don Quixote, he set to work to write more of these “Novelas E... ...at this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion of those...

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...xecuted upon them. 43 Daniel Defoe Plays. ‘That all plays, bear-baitings, games, singing of ballads, buckler-play, or such-like causes of assemblies ... ...te, and drive them to such extremities as that they would break out at all adventures. And that which was still worse, those that did thus break out s... ...uth of them, and especially that of the man being cured by the extravagant adventure, which I confess I do not think very possible; but it may serve t...

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...y plight of Robinson, who had, if I may so express myself, no charms for a gamester. If he had, however, any such inclinations, he had no opportunity ... ...uiry. Chapter v Chapter v Chapter v Chapter v Chapter v Containing certain adventures which befel Mr. Booth in the prison. THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY Mr... ...ow not me. It is true, indeed, you heard me accused of being a cheat and a gamester; but who is my accuser? Look at my apparel, friend; do thieves and... ...amester; but who is my accuser? Look at my apparel, friend; do thieves and gamesters wear such cloaths as these? play is my folly, not my vice; it is ... ... the Syrens might envy, warbles the harmonious song in praise of the young adventurer; and again, the next day, or, perhaps the next hour, with fiery ... ... vi Chapter vi Chapter vi Chapter vi Chapter vi Containing many surprising adventures. “THERE,” CONTINUED HE, “I remained the whole day in hopes of a ...

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...exercise of the faculties of his understanding, the alpha and omega of the adventure. He only had to weigh in his mind one little thought before he kn... ... as the monk of the Carneaux behaved to the girl.” Old Bruyn suspected the adventure, and saw well that his 39 Droll Stories – Vol. 1 evil hour was a... ...n a great rage with anyone who had not believed him its father. Now as the adventure of Blanche and her page had not been carried beyond the castle, i... ... no betrayal, jumping about at will, playing tricks, and get- ting up good games. Upon these occasions friend Tristan watched the neighbourhood, and a... ... one evening—the day had been very warm—Laval- liere suspecting the lady’s games, told her that Maille loved her dearly, that she had in him a man of ... ...t, and the night in the sewer, to her memory, saying to her, “Ha, ha! what games you used to have with me.” “It was your own fault,” said she, laughin...

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... you doing with those bricks, Philip? Y ou know you’re not allowed to play games on Sunday . ” Philip stared at him for a moment with fright- ened eye... ... on the look out for any reference to it. Because he could not join in the games which other boys played, their life remained strange to him; he only ... ...more than other boys of his size; and his deformity , withdrawing him from games, acquired for him an insignifi- cance for which he was grateful. He w... ...he was upheld by the excite- ment; it seemed to make life a more thrilling adventure; and in a little while the stick which he had thrown aside, the c... ...young lady called Trude. Hayward sur- rounded his sordid and vulgar little adventures with a glow of poetry , and thought he touched hands with Pericl... ...r death; and he, in his vigour and his youth, thirsting for excitement and adventure, was appalled at the waste. They had done nothing, and when they ...

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...he same partner as before. I cannot pass over in silence a very ridiculous adventure which occurred at both of these balls. A son of Montbron, no more... ...r showed it. Before I finish this account of my father, I will here relate adventures which happened to him, and which I ought to have placed before h... ...er and he afterwards became completely reconciled to each other. The other adventure was of gentler ending. The Memoirs of M. de la Rochefoucauld appe... ...rtments of Madame de Maintenon, where he played at all sorts of children’s games, scampering to and fro with Messeigneurs his brothers, with Madame la... ...f a higher set, and great store of gamblers. The pleasures of all kinds of games, and the singular beauty of the place, where a thousand caleches were... ... liked high gambling better, and was an excellent, good-tempered, and bold gamester. She spared nothing, not even her health, to gain Madame de Mainte...

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...r, telling her what to do, what not to do, giving her lessons to learn and games to play and interests of the most suitable and various kinds. Present... ..., behind the coffee things, filled her with a sense of almost catastrophic adventure. Perhaps she might never come back to that breakfast-room again. ... ... were in that blond cranium, what romance- begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure! but they sufficed, when presently Ann V eronica went out into th... ...our differences. We men are like children. We can get absorbed in play, in games, in the business we do. That’s really why we do them sometimes rather... ...sensible thing to do. There it was— to be borrowed. It would put the whole adventure on a broader and better footing; it seemed, indeed, almost the on...

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...d found a lot of slacknesses and (what is worse in this kind of thing) some literaryisms. One of the puzzles is this: It is a first person story—a tra... ...orn- ing, when I had hoped to be at this letter, I slept like one drugged and you must take this (which is all I can give you) for what it is worth— D... ...l our people came down in wreaths of flowers; we had a boat for them; Haggard had a flag in the Commission boat for us; and when at last the steamer t... .... We are getting up a paper-chase for the following week with some of the young German clerks, and have in view a sort of child’s party for grown-up p...

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...dom. I fought out my long probation in the continental wars, tasting sump- tuously of hard knocks, privation, and adventure; but in my last battle I w... ..., as soon as he had finished calling back to Tom’s dis- eased mind the various particulars of his experiences and adventures in the royal school-room ... ...rt the door, rolled up in a blan- ket. The next day, and the day after, they jogged lazily along talking over the adventures they had met since their ... ...alked— I told you of my sisters, Nan and Bet—ah, yes, you remember that; and about mine old grandam—and the rough games of the lads of Offal Court—yes...

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...issatisfied and splenetic persons, who, displeased with the issue of their adventure and finding themselves involved in the ruins of a falling cause, ... ...f my own, I often think that this wildfire chase of romantic situation and adventure may lead thee into some mischief; and then what would become of A... ...to the fortalice of his own separate dwell- ing, so soon as they heard the Adventurer was arrived with his clans as near them as Kirkliston. The fligh... ...have I known him af- fect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order ...

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...ive me a fondness for it; but we soon found ourselves so interested in the adventures they contained, that we alternately read whole nights together, ... ...ial, torn, it is true, but triumphant. Fifty years have expired since this adventure—the fear of punishment is no more. Well, then, I aver, in the fac... ...destroying all our hopes, an aqueduct! an aqueduct! It maybe supposed this adventure had a still more melan- choly end for the young architects; this,... ...he chevalier and the spectators, which I feigned not to see, I won the two games we played: When they were ended, I said to him in a respectful but ve... ...he next day after I went to his house I heard that he was a de- bauchee, a gamester, and in bad credit in the neighborhood. He had neither wife, child...

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...toss of her head. Thus Eleanor proceeded to tell her sister what—since the adventure of the goose—had gone far beyond a guess as to the tall, red-hair... ...e’s palfreys were all gone to Ghalons to be shod. In fact, there were some games going on there, and trusting to the easy-going habits of their mistre... ...ting gift of the tales of Huon de Bourdeaux, with its wonderful chivalrous adventures, and the appear- ances of the dwarf Oberon; and she greatly enjo... ... esteemed a rival by hearing it was the Lady Joanna for whose sake he thus adventured him- self, whereas it was not her beauty, but her sister’s intel...

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... of keeping them mere ineffective spectators, or only engaged in imaginary adventures for which a precedent can be found, it has been necessary to str... ...ether as we could do in the house and gardens, and played all our dear old games of shuttlecock, and pig go to market, and proverbs, and all that you,... ...in and heard our shouts in the passages with wonder as we played those old games of ours. ‘ As though you were in a den of roaring wild beasts,’ I sai... ...; and thus passed successfully through Paris, and had, through a course of adventures which he narrated with great spirit, safely reached us. Even if ... ...other the Duke of Anjou, asked gra- ciously whether he could ride and what games he loved best, and expressed a courteous desire that they might often... ...re slowly. ‘Have you been frightened?’ she cried. ‘Oh, we have had such an adventure! If they had not screamed and shrieked like peacocks, or furies, ...

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...to my room a moment to light a pipe, so I lost it. Mark Twain 62 While I was looking down upon the rafts that morning in Heilbronn, the daredevil spi... ...r. He does not remember to have ever seen it before; he looks around to see which is not the way home, grabs his bundle and starts; he goes through th... ...the storms, nearly every day of its life. It was the only habitation in the whole Gemmi Pass. Close at hand, now, was a chance for a blood-curdling Al... ...a- tients remain in the great tanks for hours at a time. A dozen gentlemen and ladies occupy a tank together, and amuse themselves with rompings and v...

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...perhaps it was his name in com- bination with his book that suggested the “Adventures of Peter Wilkins.” It is unfair, however, to mention him in con-... ...ust. For, as to Sinbad, it is not a story at all, but a mere succession of adventures, having no unity of interest what- soever; and in Aladdin, after... ...as Lon- don, was still important enough to gather round her unprin- cipled adventurers, some of whom might be noble enough to obey no attraction but t... ...out, not for Panem et circenses, (Give us this day our daily bread and our games of the circus,) but for Panem et literas, (Give us this day our daily...