...om Copyright ©2001 by Gracie C. McKeever NOTICE: This eBook is licensed to the original purchaser only. Duplication or distribution to any person via ... ...uld, Sahir could not trust him to be true to his word. He was no longer in control of his destiny. Or heart. Therese. The name beat against her brain ... ...mory of his look, the pain, could assail her so powerfully even now, years after the doctor had related that she'd miscarried. "...There's no reason n... ...nd long. You may be asked to work on weekends or travel when you're not in school." "I understand." Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 27 "But I pro... ...ng to say is that a dog is company as well as protection, and safer than a gun in the long run, for both you and Jury..." Raphael, the tactful. "Yo ho... ...et it on the carpet. No stopper, of course, since it had almost killed her shooting out. Therese rose and took several steps away. Stared at it from h... ...rling down around those Spock-like ears to just touch his nape in warm and sandy waves like a lion's mane? Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 77 Gen... ...hing he would relate to and appreciate. And she refused to let him off the hook that easily. "It was a TV show from the 70's? About a man who walked t... ...oat. "Yeah, well..." Justice nudged Kane in the shoulder, giggling like an elementary school prankster. "You got her blushing, K." "Don't listen to an...

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...... ... resources that support and strengthen the instructional programs of education, elementary through post baccalaureate studies. This file was pro... ...gue 1855 PACIFIC NORTHWEST TERRITORY PUGETSOUND THE SUN HAD descended in the afternoon sky and glowed bril­ liantly above the lush green of the fo... ...r along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent hook was attached to the end of the string with an earthworm wrapped... ...tween husbands and wives and scolded errant teenagers whose parents were unable control them. Although he respected his father, he had no real perso... ...ery part of the earth is sa­ cred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and hummin... ...she said, calming her tone, "let's hear it." "Well," he began, fidgeting like a school boy, "I put on some music, poured a glass of wine, sat down o... ...uring the scuffle. A suspect was cornered just minutes later in a back alley; a gun battle ensued and the suspected assailant was shot to death by ... ...ves, howling and snarling, filled the air. The entire team panicked and started shooting in the direc­ tion of the snarling wolves. "Stop shooting,"...

...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection...

...he Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...loons in course of inflation for the South of England Aero Club’s Saturday-afternoon ascent. “They goes up every Saturday,” said his neighbour, Mr. St... ..., and how that magnate ruled the country-side when it was country-side, of shooting and hunting, and of caches along the high road, of how “where the ... ...d more houses and more, more shops, more competition, plate-glass shops, a school-board, rates, omnibuses, tramcars—going right away into London itsel... ... said Bert. “I don’t mean flap up and smash up; I mean real, safe, steady, controlled flying, against the wind, good and right.” “You ain’t seen that!... ...lerful. “Atmospheric pressure,” said Bert, find- ing a use at last for the elementary physiography of his sev- enth-standard days. “I’ll have to be mo... ...people in the world. Now it was rumoured the British had an over- whelming gun, now the French an invincible rifle, now the Japanese a new explosive, ... ...ng away to the northwest. The flagship passed al- most vertically over the Sandy Hook observation station, ris- ing rapidly as it did so, and in a few... ...y to the northwest. The flagship passed al- most vertically over the Sandy Hook observation station, ris- ing rapidly as it did so, and in a few minut...

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...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ... I picture him at San Casciano as he lived in retirement upon his property after the fall of the Republic, perhaps with a twinge of the torture that p... ...lliam, to Mr. Evesham, to a certain news- paper proprietor who was once my schoolfellow at City Mer- chants’, to Mr. J. D. Rockefeller—all of them men... ...ce out into the hold of a waiting ship. Then there were the fortresses and gun emplacements and covered ways in which one’s soldiers went. And there w... ...man (ne Noah) strung a cot- ton loop round their legs and sent them by pin hooks along 14 The New Machiavelli a wire to a second slaughterman with a ... ... fast-table over the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of Works. Then there were also School Board... ...te set up a machinery of exami- nation both in Science and Art and for the elementary schools; and payments, known technically as grants, were made in... ...rested in nothing but golf, billiards (which he played very badly), pigeon shooting, convivial Free Masonry and Stock Exchange punting. Mostly they dr... ...er listening with an expres- sion of entirely puzzled propitiation. A tall sandy-bearded bishop with the expression of a man in a trance completed thi...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I Childhood at Home and at School, 1827-1838. SO MUCH of a man’s cast of character depends upon his ho... ...eader, and on February 23, 1818, was married to his cousin, Elizabeth Lee, after a long engagement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and... ...asantly-situated house, with a piece of water in the grounds, the right of shooting over a couple of farms, and all that could render boy life happy. ... ...my reward,’ he merrily says, when announcing it to his sisters. He had be- gun to join the Debating Society at Eton, and for a while was the president... ...brew, Arabic, &c., to go on with (though this is a slow process), Pearson, Hooker, Blunt on the Reformation (a mere sketch which I read in a day or tw... ... hope now of our being settled there.... ‘I can hardly have quite the same control over lads brought to an island itself wholly uncivilised as I can h... ...e east, south, and west by low hills, which where they meet the sea become sandy cliffs, fringed with the red-flower-bearing pohutakawa. The whole of ... ...rade. ‘But I hardly know how far I ought to spend any time in such things. Elementary grammars for our own missionaries and teachers are useful, and t...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it ...

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dick... ... particularly the second-class women-passengers, were known to have been in the middle of the ship when she parted, and thus the collapsing wreck woul... ...nd years or more. The pulpit was gone, and other things usually belonging to the church were gone, owing to its liv- ing congregation having deserted ... ... been taken off the drowned and preserved—a gold-digger’s boot, cut down the leg for its removal—a trodden-down man’s ankle- boot with a buff cloth to... ...e land of wooden houses, innocent cakes, thin butter soup, and spotless little inn bedrooms with a family likeness to Dairies. And now the Swiss marks... ... he went about the country with his carriage full of them, like a glorified Cheap-Jack. In the mountain-country into which I had now travelled, a yoke... ... condition. Not a twig of its wicker houses remains, its goats have long run wild again, its screaming parrots would darken the sun with a cloud of ma... ...h by the heaving of the boat. The sea makes noises against the pier, as if several hippopotami were lapping at it, and were prevented by circumstances... ...o themselves, a misery to the community, a disgrace to civilisation, and an outrage on Christianity.—I know it to be a fact as easy of demonstration a...

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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State El... ...ient population of its own, it was set apart as a county by itself shortly after the peace of 1783. It lies among those low spurs of the Alleghanies w... ...omposite order.” It was erected in an age too primitive for that ambitious school of architec- ture. But the author indulged his recollections freely ... ...ck her ear, quite differ- ent from the full, round reports of her father’s gun, but still sufficiently distinct to be known as the concussion produced... ...y stood in his stockings. On his head, which was thinly covered with lank, sandy hair, he wore a cap made of fox- skin, resembling in shape the one we... ...amount of the donation; for he felt that while his parent reserved a moral control over his actions, he was relieving himself of a fatiguing burden: s... ...mposed of somewhat brittle materials. He however, occasionally renewed his elementary studies, and, with the observation of a shrewd mind, was com- fo... ...in so narrow a box that it was straitened for room; he could feel the pain shooting up from the inhumed fragment into the living members. Marmaduke su... ...is very like, and I will be kapeing it up, while the blacksmith can make a hook for it to swing on, for all the ‘coffee-houses’ betwane this and Alban...

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...Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ng down. The telegraph operators wearily raised their celluloid eye-shades after a night of talking with Paris and Peking. Through the building crawle... ...r in spectacles—the pretentious tor- toiseshell, the meek pince-nez of the school teacher, the twisted silver-framed glasses of the old villager. Babb... ...n the huge yellow side of the trolley and the jagged row of parked motors, shooting past just as the trolley stopped—a rare game and valiant. And all ... ...ding each new intricate mechanism—metal lathe, two-jet carburetor, machine gun, oxyacetylene welder—he learned one good realistic-sound- ing phrase, a... ... Dollars a day teaching our Hindu System of Vibratory Breathing and Mental Control.” Ted had collected fifty or sixty announcements, from annual refer... ...SH in flavor; always delightfully cool and fragrant! For a fact, you never hooked such double-decked, copper-riv- eted. two-fisted smoke enjoyment! Go... ...ed, and inextinguishably respectable grandams swung their legs in the more elementary cho- rus-evolutions, and a Jewish comedian made vicious fun of J... ...committees and lodges stimulated him like brandy, but every morning he was sandy-tongued. Week by week he accumulated nervousness. He was in open disa...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-...

... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...h his being. His story is its story. It was trace- ably germinating in the schoolboy; it was manifestly present in his mind at the very last moment of... ... a book—let us say it was an analysis of, a guide to the noble life. There after his tragic death came his old friend White, the journalist and noveli... ...ear, and your true aristo- crat is not one who has eliminated, but one who controls or ignores it. Brave men are men who do things when they are afrai... ...ing—fabric, wires, everything seemed going pop, pop, pop, like a ma- chine-gun, and then came a flash of intense pain as my arm crumpled up. It was qu... ...ese charred and slashed and splintered persons, those Indians hanging from hooks, those walkers in the fiery furnace, have had glimpses through great ... ...his dream? With doubt still in his mind, he walked round its margin to the sandy level beyond, and cast about and sought in- tently, and at last found... ...’s, the kind of man of the world who has long moustaches, was for big game shooting. “Get right out of all this while you are young,” he said. “There’... ...e there are temperaments, but why can’t we formulate them and exercise the elementary charity of rec- ognizing that one man’s health in these matters ...

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...et Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...hed six months. And the opening section of Chapter the Second remains now, after the reality has happened, a fairly adequate diagnosis of the essentia... ...nd resolute effort of salvage and reconstruction. Instead of which, as the school book footnotes say, compare to-day’s newspaper. In- stead of a frank... ...uess that—perhaps with the lightning. Frogs’ legs must have hung by copper hooks from iron railings and twitched upon count- less occasions before Gal... ...rnt to make it. He knew it then only as a strange thing utterly beyond his control, a flare on the crest of the volcano, a red destruction that poured... ...k could not have discovered any of them without com- ing within reach of a gun. But that night he only wanted one of the machines, and it was handy an... ...f bomb. And though they manoeuvred against each other, and there was rifle shooting at them and between them, there was little actual aerial fighting.... ... of the globe. There were vast mountain wildernesses, forest wildernesses, sandy deserts, and frozen lands. Men still clung closely to water and arabl... ...duty and occupa- tion of all men and women. These things which are now the elementary commonplaces of human intercourse seemed to the councillors of B...

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... Polly by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ng acutely from indigestion. He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon in his life, but as he lacked introspection he projected the asso... ...ays both as regards quantity and quality, but neither church nor state nor school will raise a warning finger between a man and his hunger and his wif... ...rficialities of Mr. Polly’s being, moved a larger and vaguer distress. The elementary education he had acquired had left him with the impression that ... ...and Mr. Polly had a great dispute and quarrel that day as to how far a big gun could shoot. The country over the hills behind Port Burdock is all that... ...emed a very jolly little place to Mr. Polly that afternoon. It has a clean sandy beach instead of the mud and pebbles and coaly défilements of Port Bu... ...ad; his autocratic, his sacred baldness, smit- ten. Parsons was beyond all control—a strangeness, a mar- vel. Heaven knows how the artistic struggle h... ...tionalists from the beach and the back streets when at the hour of six the shooting of bolts and the turning of keys had ended the British Ramadan, th... ...the whole front of the place. Against the wall was a broken oar, two boat- hooks and the stained and faded red cushions of a pleasure boat. One went u...

...cs Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...learn Persian,” broke in a thin, eld- erly gentleman. “Is there no retired schoolmaster or man of letters in Manchester with whom she could read Per- ... ... basis was not sadness so much as a spirit given to contemplation and self-control. Judging by her hair, her coloring, and the shape of her features, ... ...itude, generally antipathetic to him. The talk had passed over Manchester, after dealing with it very generously. “Would it be the Battle of Trafalgar... ...e had not been in front of him. He overtook a friend of his, by name Harry Sandys, who was going the same way, and they walked together a few paces be... ... is like Venice,” she observed, raising her hand. “The motor-cars, I mean, shooting about so quickly, with their lights.” “I’ve never seen Venice,” he... ... same reasons. They both shrank, nervously, as people fear the report of a gun on the stage, from all that would have to be said on this occasion. Kat... ...nsheltered in her expression, as if for many summers her thin red skin and hooked nose and reduplication of chins, so much resembling the profile of a... ... con- fessed herself at fault in her estimate of human nature. “The simple elementary acts of justice,” she said, wav- ing her hand towards the window...

...Out by Virginia Woolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ll, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left hand. One afternoon in the beginning of October when the traffic was becoming brisk a... ...loo Bridge and the carts moving across them, like the line of animals in a shooting gallery. They were seen blankly, but to see anything was of course... ...elieved to pass a build- ing put up by the London County Council for Night Schools. “Lord, how gloomy it is!” her husband groaned. “Poor creatures!” W... ... were in force, which people wanted what, and why they wanted it, the most elementary idea of a system in modern life— none of this had been imparted ... ...irted like the rest, had lain among grim men, flat on the turf, aiming her gun at the white turrets beneath them, screen- ing her eyes to pierce throu... ...ike a child at a party, by the faces of strangers all hostile to her, with hooked noses and sneering, indifferent eyes. 145 Virginia Woolf She was by... ... the dogs. They had to be exercised, besides being washed and brushed. Now Sandy’s dead, but Aunt Clara has a very old cockatoo that came from India. ... ...ust and horror which Rachel had been accu- mulating burst forth beyond her control. “I thought it the most loathsome exhibition I’d ever 225 Virginia...

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...tories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication ... ...ive writer that he should be thus sensitive to atmospheric conditions. But after one has died as a maker one may still live as a critic, and I will co... ...lliam was at first a rather shabby young man of the ready- made black coat school of costume. He had watery gray eyes, and a complexion appropriate to... ...d, perhaps, twenty yards from land. I realised what was up in a moment. My gun was in the tent, and, besides, I had no bullets—only duck shot. They kn... ...wly. Then Evans looked towards the paddle. “Your turn with the paddle now, Hooker,” said he. And his companion quietly folded up his map, put it in hi... ...treaks and rimmed about with a fringe of writhing tongues of red fire. And shooting half-way across the heavens from either side of it and brighter th... ...said. “Not this?” “Good-bye, Mr. Cummins,” she said. By a violent effort I controlled myself and touched her hand. I tried to say some word of explana... ... these various subjects, but in secondary as distin- guished from Board or elementary schools, knowledge in the teacher is, very properly, by no means... ...abbering, and in he came, Bible in hand, after the manner of them—a little sandy chap in specks and a pith helmet. I flatter myself that me sitting th...

...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the ...

...Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN...

...assics Series Publication Vittoria by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e as clustered swans; 4 Vittoria here and there a tented boat is visible, shooting from terraces of vines, or hanging on its shadow. Monte Boscero is... ...d by the under, and the chin stood freely out from a fine neck and throat. After a space an Austrian war-steamer was discerned puff- ing out of the ha... ...s come back to roost. This is one of the serious facts of the century, and controls violent language. What! are you all gathered about me? Oracles mus... ... of his legs, and his looks, and his service, and because he has carried a gun and heard it go off. Yes; I am a spy. But I am honest. I, too, have vis... ... knew that the shoemaking business was a mask. Barto had been a soldier, a schoolmaster: twice an exile; a conspirator since the day when the Austrian... ...ts she objected to no further than a fish is agitated in escaping from the hook; but ‘Nein, nein!’ in her own language, and ‘No, no!’ in his, burst fr... ...ped over sloping meadows to some shaded boulders where the Passeyr found a sandy bay, and leaped in transparent green, and whitened and swung twist- i... ...y damped, and instead of apprentices in war, who possessed at any rate the elementary stuff of soldiers, miserable dummies were drafted into the royal...

...says and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...hich it holds in the succession of steps, not usually coming forward until after the presentation has been notified (supposing that it comes forward a... ...urch. A new scheme for extending religion, had opened a new avenue to this control over the presbyteries. That opening was notori- 22 Theological Ess... ...tically, that is, by no law generally recognised. And behind this eclectic school were grouped others who had voted for all novelties up to a cer- tai... ... of Palestine, and were either strung upon a thread, or attached by little hooks—singly or in groups, according to their size. This taste was very ear... ...lunt. So, with regard to books, should the reader on whom we build prove a sandy and treacherous founda- tion, the whole edifice, ‘temple and tower,’ ... ...scensions to the infirmities of his sub- jects. Here also we meet with the elementary state, growing and as yet imperfectly rooted, of feudalism. Here... ...of artillery was first understood, that he found every man standing to his gun. Both, in short, found war in pro-cinctu—both found the people whom the... ...ns? Mr. Mure mentions as the ex- quisite reason for the present fashion of shooting from an ambush first, and settling accounts afterwards, that by th...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE........

... Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ver in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and board- ing-schools and books. Mr Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial allian... ...ce over him than anybody else. ‘My dear Paul,’ that lady broke out afresh, after silently contemplating his features for a few moments, ‘I don’t know ... ...y , Master Paul a temporary .’ Spitfire made use of none but comma pauses; shooting out whatever she had to say in one sentence, and in one breath, if... ...ith suggestions of precious stuffs and stones, tigers, elephants, howdahs, hookahs, umbrellas, palm trees, palanquins, and gorgeous princes of a brown... ...arting grasp at her hair which seemed involuntary and quite beyond her own control, told her she knew what to do, and bade her go and do it: rememberi... ...got for him, in which he could lie at his ease, with an alphabet and other elementary works of reference, and be wheeled down to the sea-side. Consist... ...r. She kept her hair short and crisp, and wore spectacles. She was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live l...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...

...cs Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ver in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and board- ing-schools and books. Mr Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial allian... ...ce over him than anybody else. ‘My dear Paul,’ that lady broke out afresh, after silently contemplating his features for a few moments, ‘I don’t know ... ...y , Master Paul a temporary .’ Spitfire made use of none but comma pauses; shooting out whatever she had to say in one sentence, and in one breath, if... ...ith suggestions of precious stuffs and stones, tigers, elephants, howdahs, hookahs, umbrellas, palm trees, palanquins, and gorgeous princes of a brown... ...arting grasp at her hair which seemed involuntary and quite beyond her own control, told her she knew what to do, and bade her go and do it: rememberi... ...got for him, in which he could lie at his ease, with an alphabet and other elementary works of reference, and be wheeled down to the sea-side. Consist... ...r. She kept her hair short and crisp, and wore spectacles. She was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live l...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...

... Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ity, and the gentleman stepped forward. It was observed in the crowd, that after a few paces he put two fingers on the back of his head. They might su... ...he tender request was urged on him, signified a physical opposition to the control of garments. Mechanically now, while doating in fancy over the coup... ...n their Bois. It’s the rustic I want to bathe me; and I had the feeling at school, biting at Horace. Well, this is my Sabine Farm, rather on a larger ... ...i worships the old roots of trees: she calls them the faces of those weedy sandy lanes. And the two dear souls on their own estate, Fenellan! And thei... ...sed her understanding; or when he was not too distinctly seen by her to be shooting at all the parties of her beloved England, beneath the wicked semb... ...se who give way to him. I believe in a devil.’ ‘Horns and tail?’ ‘Bait and hook.’ ‘I haven’t wealth, and I wish only for dinner,’ Fenellan said. ‘You ... ...orld on it. She felt this lady to be one encompassed and in the hug of the elementary forces, which are the ter- rors to inexperienced pure young wome...

...rge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...t ‘pose for a statue.’ He presents her in carpenter’s lines, with a dab of school-box colours, effective to those whom the Keepsake fashion can stir. ... ...nty minutes behind the dinner- hour, and r-r-really fearing she was late.’ After alluding to the soft influence of her beauty and in- genuousness on t... ...ceptions of wisdom, hysterical goodness, an impatient charity’—against the elementary state of the al- truistic virtues, distinguishable as the sickne... ...love, she would have written very differently to her friend. Lady Dunstane controlled the pricking of the wound in- flicted by Diana’s novel exercise ... ... under rock, unfathomable in limpidness. He could not think of her without shooting at nature, and nature’s very sweetest and subtlest, for comparison... ...Dacier landed from the Havre steamer at Caen and drove straightway for the sandy coast, past fields of colza to brine-blown meadows of coarse grass, a... ...of the pride she felt in her lover. ‘I am like a car- tridge rammed into a gun, to be discharged at a certain hour tomorrow,’ she wrote; and she seale... ...res, and none more deadly than when he baits with a petticoat. He had been hooked, and had found the devil in person. He begged them urgently to keep ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of on...

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...know his work, may know it well, and admire it more every time we read it. After being amused by it, after having enjoyed it, we may return again to s... ... aware of all the changes and novelties of the passing fashion. The Pleiad School he evidently knew nothing of, but kept to the writers of the fifteen... ... great deal of Rabelais in the fifth book. He must have planned it and be- gun it. Remembering that in 1548 he had published, not as an experiment, bu... ...ived, which phi- losophers call Jus Gentium, the Law of Nations, or an un- controllable right of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well ... ...ux in Brie, who would have bought them for the substantific quality of the elementary complexion, which is intronificated in the terrestreity of their... ...ed Rizotomos had charge; together with little mattocks, pickaxes, grubbing-hooks, cab- bies, pruning-knives, and other instruments requisite for herbo... ...nd subdued Scotland, England, and Ireland. From thence sailing through the sandy sea and by the Sarmates, they have vanquished and overcome Prussia, P... ...f venison. Betwixt the third couple of towers were the butts and marks for shooting with a snapwork gun, an ordinary bow for com- mon archery, or with...

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

... by Ford Madox Ford A Penn State Electronic Clas- sics Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ables in front of the club house, let us say, at Homburg, taking tea of an afternoon and watching the min- iature golf, you would have said that, as h... ...is nothing to guide us. And if everything is so nebulous about a matter so elementary as the morals of sex, what is there to guide us in the more subt... ...s cases, all of pigskin and stamped with his initials, E. F. A. There were gun cases, and collar cases, and shirt cases, and letter cases and cases ea... ... that there were no papers on the table, that there were no clothes on the hooks, and that there was a strained silence—a silence, she said, as if the... ...ng. That helped Florence a good deal. For we were not ten minutes out from Sandy Hook before Florence went down into her cabin and her heart took her.... ...nd very tranquil love. He had missed her when she went away to her convent-school; he had been glad when she had returned. But of more than that he ha... ...me on a visit to the lonely manor-house. They could give Edward some rough shooting, some rough fishing and a whirl of feminin- ity; but I should say ... ...they thought I was there to do—perhaps to buy out the city’s debt or get a controlling hold of some railway inter- est. Or, perhaps, they imagined tha...

...Excerpt: This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove?s with...

... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. “I often think,” she continued after a short pause, draw- ing nearer to the prince and smiling amiably at ... ...s screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as fast ... ...his toes toward the general. The captain’s face showed the uneasiness of a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. Spots appeared... ...wo front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end of a gun at Ismail. “And tell Mr. Dolokhov that I won’t forget him—he may be qui... ...king away at the dogs! But this sort of thing is the very devil, with them shooting at you like a target.” And Denisov rode up to a group that had sto... ...wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swar- thy, sunburned, and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more running behind. One of them ... ... felt by those who are suffering. They satisfied the need seen in its most elementary form in a child, when it wants to have a place rubbed that has b... ...d passed through the forest; the dew was imperceptible on the 399 Tolstoy sandy dust churned up more than six inches deep. As soon as day dawned the ...

...Selected Writings by Guy De Maupassant Short Stories of the T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of ... ...- larly long journeys upon the sea. He owned a little sailing yacht, named after one of his books, “Bel- Ami,” in which he used to sojourn for weeks a... ...nd used with a judgment mar- velously sure the sounder principles of their school. They knew how to remain lucid and classic, in taste as much as in f... ...e snub nose confirmed by exception 30 De Maupassant the rule which allots hooked noses to all her race, to the youngest officer, frail Count Wilhelm ... ...y three guards in green jack- ets, each carrying a knife at his side and a gun over his shoulder. While the doctor stopped, half stupefied, the four m... ...by the efforts of his intellect. As long as that intellect remained in its elementary stage, this intercourse with invisible spirits assumed forms whi... ... causing us any surprise, because our verifying apparatus and our sense of control have gone to sleep, while our imaginative faculty wakes and works. ... ...ments and the restraints of a civilized being. I am passion- ately fond of shooting, yet the sight of the wounded animal, of the blood on its feathers... ...e set down foaming on the table, the foam running over the edge, on to the sandy floor. Des Barrets emptied his glass at a single draught and replaced...

...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

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...s Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...nd that extravagant conception, Mr Merdle, I would hint that it originated after the Railroad-share epoch, in the times of a certain Irish bank, and o... ...their use to himself, a clockmaker could have made a better pair. He had a hook nose, hand- some after its kind, but too high between the eyes by prob... ...dle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, or I should hit him. The name of... ... she said this raging, she said it in a voice so far from being beyond her control that it was even lower than her usual tone. She also spoke with gre... ...sitting face to face at a large and easy desk, one of whom was polishing a gun-barrel on his pocket-handkerchief, while the other was spreading marmal... ...s of her absent lord, her lord returned. A smooth-cheeked, fresh-coloured, sandy- whiskered man of thirty. Long in the legs, yielding at the knees, fo... ...ited the highest story of the palace, where he might have practised pistol-shooting without much chance of discovery by the other inmates, his younger... ...-masters embellish copy-books and ciphering-books: where the titles of the elementary rules of arithmetic diverge into swans, eagles, griffins, and ot...

...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being r...

...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

...says and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ull ritual of a sacrifice must have been preserved in all ban- quets, long after it had faded to a form in the less supersti- tious West. This we may ... ... who reflects is not quite so sure of that. As a commonplace resounding in schools, it may be justly current amongst us, that what is evil by nature o... ...uths. Others, however, inclined rather to the Ancient Mariner’s scheme, by shooting an albatross:— ’T was right, said they, such birds to shoot, That ... ... painful to say ‘Jack’ or ‘Dick’ either to or of an ecclesias- tical great gun. But if such big wigs will come abroad in dis- guise, and with names as... ...e meantime, telescopes should reveal the fact that she was pretty nearly a sandy desert. What a church teaches is true or not true, without reference ... ... not to have observed is excused, perhaps, by the too complex machinery of hooks and eyes between the text and the notes involving a double reference—... ... activities, were originally but two aspects of one law: to deny the Papal control over men’s conscience being to affirm man’s self-control, was, ther... ... nevertheless is often homely, and even gross, in its recurrences to frank elementary nature. For a lady to describe herself as laughing a gorge deplo...

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