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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Sermon, 51 -- 10 A Bosom Friend, 59 -- 11 Nightgown, 63 -- 12 Biogra...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... .... . 538 CONTENTS vii XXXXX viii CONTENTS XXXXX Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.) The pale Usher — threadbare in... ...uriosity among the numerous, and many of them competent observers, that of late years must have possessed the most abundant and the most convenient op... ... Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the Chapter 2 The Carpet Bag 21 middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towar... ... shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown stud... ...ight make him self at home. But this fine young savage — this sea Prince of Wales, never saw the captain’s cabin. They put him down among the sailors, ...

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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carri...

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...Tess of the d’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY 1891 Based on the Wessex Edition of 1912 Contents Phase the First — The Maiden . . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Phase the Second — Maiden No More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 XII . . ... ...ase the First — The Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Sha... ... Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlo... ...le aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that ca... ...eath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of t... ...e; and when they became fierce she rebuked them. She might have stayed even later, but the incident of her father’s odd appear ance and manner returne... ...and pure, gets his authority for speaking of ‘Nature’s holy plan.’ It grew later, and neither father nor mother reappeared. Tess looked out of the doo... ... apparent where the swedes had been pulled, was beginning to be striped in wales of darker brown, gradually broadening to ribands. Along the edge of e...

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...The Tragedy of Richard the Third : with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field. by WI... ...d, and the Battell at Bosworth Field. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language ... ... of Yorke: 5 And all the clouds that lowr’d vpon our house 6 In the deepe bosome of the Ocean buried. 7 Now are our browes bound ... ... Grim- visag’d Warre, hath smooth’d his wrinkled Front: 12 And now, in stead of mounting Barbed Steeds, 13 To fright the Soules of fearfu... ...ch. You may deny that you were not the meane 556 Of my Lord Hastings late imprisonment. 557 Riu. She may my Lord, for— 558 Ric... ...ther, to make him a King. 668 Edward thy Sonne, that now is Prince of Wales, 669 For Edward our Sonne, that was Prince of Wales, 670 D... ...f my seruants life, 1228 Who slew to day a Riotous Gentleman, 1229 Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolke. 1230 King. Haue I a tongu... ... Canst thou quake, and change thy colour, 2086 Murther thy breath in middle of a word, 2087 And then againe begin, and stop againe, 2088 ... ...ncely Richmond now? 3358 Chri. At Penbroke, or at Hertford West in Wales. 3359 Der. What men of Name resort to him. 3360 Chri....

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...-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -- Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps, 85 -- Book Seventh Residence in London, 105 -- Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind, 126 -- Book Ninth Residence in France, 150 -- Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution, 1...

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...Table of Contents: Easter Holidays, 1 -- Dura Navis, 2 -- Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vit‘, 4 -- Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon, 5 -- Anthem for the Children of Christ?s Hospital, 6 -- Julia, 7 -- Quae Nocent Docent, 8 -- The Nose, 9 -- To the Muse, 11 -- Destruction of the Bastile, 12 -- Life, 14 -- Progress of Vice, 15 -- Monody on...

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...AND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP T...

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...u Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEP... ...LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—THE PACIFIC CHAPTER VIII — ‘‘TARRING DOWN’’—DAILY LIFE—’’GOING AFT’’—CA... ... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...ey will have been on deck eight hours out of twelve, while those who had the middle watch—from twelve to four, will only have been up four hours, they... ...ut in furling, the strongest and most experienced stand in the slings, (or, middle of the yard,) to make up the bunt. If the second mate is a smart f... ...put in to see if there were any vessels from round the Horn, and to hear the latest news from America. They remained aboard a short time and had a lit... ...we were hard at work every minute from daylight to dark; and sometimes even later. By being thus continually engaged in transporting passenge... ...elow. Soon after, John came aft, with his bare back covered with stripes and wales in every direction, and dread- fully swollen, and asked the stewa...