Gambara
But the hour was not unpropitious for the indulgence of some discreditable whim.
Earlier, he might have been detected; later, he might find himself cut out. Tempted by a glance which is
encouraging without being inviting, to have followed a young and pretty woman for an hour, or perhaps
for a day, thinking of her as a divinity and excusing her light conduct by a thousand reasons to her
advantage
Gammer Gurton's Needle
A Man were better twenty times be a bandog & barke,/Then here among such a sort, be parish priest/Where he shal neuer be at rest, one pissing while a day/But he must trudge about the towne, this way, and that way,/Here to a drab, there to a theefe, his shoes to teare and rent
GARDEN OF DEATH
Men paced past outside; then halted. The Shadow heard a gruff voice that he recognized. It belonged to Inspector Joe Cardona, a very able police official. Cardona had been out of town that afternoon; otherwise, he would have handled the Bendleton case from the start. Apparently, Joe was on it now, but didn't feel much flattered.
Garrison's Finish, A Romance of the Race-Course
Then he awoke too late, as they all awake; awoke to find that his vigor had been sapped by early suppers and late breakfasts; his finances depleted by slow horses and fast women; his nerve frayed to ribbons by gambling. And then had come that awful morning when he first commenced to cough. Would he, could he, ever forget it? --by W. B. M. Ferguson
GEMS OF JEOPARDY
The Shadow's laughter, however, indicated that he had expected to read an account similar to this. The mutilated map he had seen in the house near Battery Park had suggested to him that the stolen portion of the map had contained a coastline mark where a landing might be attempted. A criminal, safely ashore on the coast of New Jersey, had destroyed the ship that had brought him across the ocean!
Geological Observations On Volcanic Islands
The overlying basaltic lava is in some parts extremely vesicular, in others little so; it is of a black colour, but sometimes contains crystals of glassy feldspar, and seldom much olivine. These streams appear to have possessed singularly little fluidity; their side walls and lower ends being very steep, and even as much as between twenty and thirty feet in height. Their surface is extraordinarily rugged, and from a short distance appears as if studded with small craters.
Ghosts
Engstrand. And it was when your mother was in a nasty temper. I had to find some way of getting my knife into her, my girl. She was always so precious gentile. (Mimicking her.) "Let go, Jacob! Let me be! Please to remember that I was three years with the Alvings at Rosenvold, and they were people who went to Court! (Laughs.) --by Henrik Ibsen
Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore
We shall agree at least that the study of Natural History has become now-a-days an honourable one. A Cromarty stonemason was till lately - God rest his noble soul! - the most important man in the City of Edinburgh, by dint of a work on fossil fishes; and the successful investigator of the minutest animals takes place unquestioned among men of genius
Glengarry Schooldays
The first days of that week were days of strife. Murdie Cameron and Bob Fraser and the other big boys succeeded in keeping in line with the master's rules and regulations. They were careful never to be late, and so saved themselves the degradation of bringing an excuse. But the smaller boys set themselves to make the master's life a burden, and succeeded beyond their highest expectations
Glinda of Oz
He started down a path and Ozma and Dorothy followed him without protest, as they wanted to see the most important person in this queer country. The houses they passed seemed pleasant enough and each had a little yard in which were flowers and vegetables. Walls of rock separated the dwellings, and all the paths were paved with smooth slabs of rock. This seemed their only building material and they utilized it cleverly for every purpose.
Goblin Market and Selected Poems
Morning and evening/
Maids heard the goblins cry:/
"Come buy our orchard fruits,/
Come buy, come buy: -- by Christina Rossetti
Gobseck
"His room, and everything in it, from the green baize of the bureau to the strip of carpet by the
bed, was as clean and threadbare as the chilly sanctuary of some elderly spinster who spends her
days in rubbing her furniture. In winter time, the live brands of the fire smouldered all day in a
bank of ashes; there was never any flame in his grate.
God's Troubadour, The Story of St. Francis of Assisi
The youths welcomed Francis into their fellowship because, though he had not a noble name, he had splendid clothes to wear, and much money to spend; and because, among them all, no one laughed so merrily or sang so sweetly as the merchant's son. The hours always went more gaily when Francis was of the party, for it made one feel happy just to look at his bright face.
Good Indian
There is a saying--and if it is not purely Western, it is at least purely American--that the only good Indian is a dead Indian. In the very teeth of that, and in spite of tho fact that he was neither very good, nor an Indian--nor in any sense "dead"-- men called Grant Imsen "Good Indian" to his face; and if he resented the title, his resentment was never made manifest--perhaps because he had grown up with the name
Gorgias
SOCRATES: Very good, Callicles; but will he answer our questions? for I want to hear from him what is the nature of his art, and what it is which he professes and teaches; he may, as you (Chaerephon) suggest, defer the exhibition to some other time.
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
WHEN, by the good hand of my God, I had for five or six years together, without any interruption, freely preached the blessed gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; and had also, through His blessed grace, some encouragement by His blessing thereupon; the devil, that old enemy of man's salvation, took his opportunity to inflame the hearts of his vassals against me, insomuch that at the last, I was laid out for by the warrant of a justice, and was taken and committed to prison.
Great Astronomers
There may have been other discoverers who have done more for science
than ever Ptolemy accomplished, but there never has been any other discoverer whose authority on the
subject of the movements of the heavenly bodies has held sway over the minds of men for so long a period as
the fourteen centuries during which his opinions reigned supreme. The doctrines he laid down in his famous
book, "The Almagest," prevailed throughout those ages.
Great Expectations
Takes a benefactor to help you escape the decay... and visit nicer clothiers.
GREEN EYES
CLEVE BRANCH glanced at his watch. It was five in the afternoon. One could not gauge time without a watch, here in Moy Chen's upper office, for the little room was windowless. Cleve Branch was himself now. The disguise of Hugo Barnes had been discarded.
Green Tea
Does he intend opening his case, and consulting me "professionally," as they say? I hope so. I have already conceived a theory about him. It is supported by Lady Mary's answers to my parting questions. I should like much to ascertain from his own lips.
Greenmantle
At all costs we had to keep Rasta safe, but I was very determined that he should not be handed over to the lady. I was going to be no party to cold-blooded murder, which I judged to be her expedient. It was a pretty kettle of fish, but in the meantime I must have food, for I had eaten nothing for nine hours.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
One summer's morning a little tailor was sitting on his table by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might. Then came a peasant woman down the street crying: 'Good jams, cheap! Good jams, cheap!' This rang pleasantly in the tailor's ears; he stretched his delicate head out of the window, and called:-- by the Brothers Grimm
GUARDIAN OF DEATH
"Poor child," expressed Hybart, indulgently. "She was caught in the rain last night. Our housekeeper, Mrs. Moffitt, has been looking after her, and decided she should stay in bed. If I spoke sharply, it was for her own good."
Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN wanted to exclude lawyers, along with roving frontiersmen, from his colonies in Texas, and hoped thus to promote a utopian society. The lawyers got in, however. Their wit, the anecdotes of which they were both subject and author, and the political stories they made traditional from the stump, have not been adequately set down.--by J. Frank Dobie
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizzled, and others lank; they had beards like goats, and a long ridge of hair down their backs, and the fore parts of their legs and feet; but the rest of their bodies was bare, so that I might see their skins, which were of a brown buff colour. They had no tails, nor any hair at all on their buttocks,
GYPSY VENGEANCE
But the cautious gangleader had not reckoned with a menace from within. One of his men - Hokey - had already succumbed to The Shadow. Another was due to follow. As Beef stood looking toward the window, something swept silently from in back of him. A long arm, winding around the mobster's neck, caught Beef's throat in the crook of a binding elbow.
Hagakure (The Way of the Samurai). Selections
Although it stands to reason that a samurai should be mindful of the Way of the Samurai, it would seem that we are all negligent. Consequently, if someone were to ask, "What is the true meaning of the Way of the Samurai?" the person who would be able to answer promptly is rare. This is because it has not been established in one's mind beforehand. From this, one's unmindfulness of the Way can be known.
Half a Life-Time Ago
Susan and Michael were to be married in April. He had already gone to take possession of his new farm,
three or four miles away from Yew Nook--but that is neighbouring, according to the acceptation of the word in
that thinly-populated district,--when William Dixon fell ill. He came home one evening, complaining of
head-ache and pains in his limbs,
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Thou pray'st not well.
I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat;
For, though I am not splenitive and rash,
Yet have I something in me dangerous,
Hard Cash
THE subsiding sea was now a liquid Paradise: its great pellucid braes and hillocks shone with the
sparkle and the hues of all the jewels in an emperor's crown. Imagine--after three days of inky sea,
and pitchy sky, and Death's deep jaws snapping and barely missing--ten thousand great slopes of
emerald, aquamarine, amethyst and topaz, liquid, alive, and dancing jocundly beneath a gorgeous
sun:--by Charles Reade
Hard Times
Woes of Victorian life for the underclass.
Hauntings
Two years later, Pierluigi Orsini was stabbed by one of his grooms at his castle of Stimigliano, near Orvieto; and
suspicion fell upon his widow, more especially as, immediately after the event, she caused the murderer to be
cut down by two servants in her own chamber; but not before he had declared that she had induced him to
assassinate his master by a promise of her love.
Havoc
Bellamy, King's Spy, and Dorward, journalist, known to fame in every English-speaking country, stood before the
double window of their spacious sitting-room, looking down upon the thoroughfare beneath. Both men were
laboring under a bitter sense of failure.
Heart of Darkness
The Conrad masterpiece. Exterminate the Brutes.
Heart of Darkness
What the Heck, I'll link to it twice.
Hearts of Controversy
Fifty years after Tennyson's birth he was saluted a great poet by that unanimous acclamation which includes mere clamour. Fifty further years, and his centenary was marked by a new detraction. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish the obscure but not unmajestic law of change from the sorry custom of reaction.
Heartsease, Or Brother's Wife
Were they to leave the country? This was still under consideration. The next fortnight made some difference in
Theodora's wishes respecting Brogden Cottage. Violet becoming less timid, ventured to show that she took
interest in poor people; and Theodora was pleased by finding her able to teach at school, and to remember
the names of the children.--by Charlotte M. Yonge
Hecuba
Hecuba, oh Hecuba (fallout from the Trojan War). Hopefully the playwright got a full share for this one.
Heimskringla; or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
Now when Harald came to
Constantinople he presented himself to the empress, and went into
her pay; and immediately, in autumn, went on board the galleys
manned with troops which went out to the Greek sea. Harald had
his own men along with him. Now Harald had been but a short time
in the army before all the Varings flocked to him--by Snorri Sturluson
Heine and Mathilde
One is sorry that Heine has not risen again to enjoy this. One can easily picture his reading it and, turning tenderly to his "Treasure," his "Heart's Joy," with that everlasting boy's look on his face, saying: "Never mind, Damschen. We know, don't we? They think they know, but we know." And with what a terrible snarl he would say, "My ideal Mme. Heine!" --by Richard Le Gallienne
Helen of Troy
But Aphrodite sent a slumber deep/On all in the King's palace, young and old,/And one by one the women fell asleep, /-Their lamentable tales left half untold, -/Before the dawn, when folk wax weak and cold,/But Helen waken'd with the shining morn,--by Andrew Lang
Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough
GENTLEMAN SAXON/They're besieg'd,/Aurelius Ambrose and his brother Uther,/With numbers infinite in Britain forces,/Beset their castle, and they cannot 'scape/Without your speedy succour. --by Thomas Middleton
Henry IV Part I
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.
Henry IV Part II
Between that royal field of Shrewsbury/And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,/Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,/Lies crafty-sick: the posts come tiring on,
Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
"An officer who was in his tent near by came out and ordered me to be put under guard in one of the guard tents, where I was kept until next morning, when I was put 'in arrest.' Wilson was taken to the hospital, where he stayed two or three weeks, and as soon as he returned to duty he was also placed in arrest. This was made the subject for a court-martial, and that court-martial will form the subject of my next communication. -- by Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry V
Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,/Admit me Chorus to this history;/Who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray,/Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
Henry VI Parts I, II and III
All here for you
Her Father's Daughter
Linda slid down the side of the canyon with the deftness of the expert. At the first available crevice she thrust in her Alpine stick, and bracing herself, gained a footing. Then she turned and by use of her fingers and toes worked her way back to the plan, she had passed. She was familiar with many members of she family, but such a fine specimen she seldom had found and she could not recall having seen it in all of her botanies.
Her Prairie Knight
Beatrice laughed. "Very likely. I know they were mourning because their lace-making had been neglected lately. What with that trip to Lost Canyon to-morrow, and to the mountains Friday, I'm afraid the lace will continue to suffer. What do you think of a round-up, Sir Redmond?"
Herbert West: Reanimator and Other Stories
By HP Lovecraft. Text is in public domain. Really.
Heritage of the Sioux
In Tijeras Arroyo the moon made black shadows where stood the tiny knolls here and there, marking frequently the windings of dry washes where bushes grew in ragged patches and where tall weeds of mid-May tangled in the wind. The roundup tents of the Flying U Feature Film Company stood white as new snow in the moonlight, though daylight showed them an odd, light-blue tint for photographic purposes.
Herland
What I'm trying to show here is that with these women the whole relationship of life counted in a glad, eager
growing-up to join the ranks of workers in the line best loved; a deep, tender reverence for one's own
mother--too deep for them to speak of freely--and beyond that, the whole, free, wide range of sisterhood, the
splendid service of the country, and friendships. -- by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hermann and Dorothea
Towards the setting sun the two thus went on their journey:/Close he had wrapped himself round with clouds portending a tempest./Out from the veil, now here and now there, with fiery flashes,/Gleaming over the field shot forth the ominous lightning./"May not these threatening heavens," said Hermann, "be presently sending/Hailstones upon us and violent rains; for fair is the harvest."
Hero Tales From American History
Daniel Boone will always occupy a unique place in our history as the archetype of the hunter and wilderness wanderer. He was a true pioneer, and stood at the head of that class of Indian-fighters, game-hunters, forest-fellers, and backwoods farmers who, generation after generation, pushed westward the border of civilization from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. As he himself said, he was "an instrument ordained of God to settle the wilderness--by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt
Herodias
In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and
was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the rear. At the base of
the citadel, crowding against one another, a group of houses stood within the circle of a wall, whose outlines
undulated with the unevenness of the soil.
Hiero
While of tyrants, many have been murderers of their own children, many by their children murdered. Many brothers have been murderers of one another in contest for the crown;many a monarch has been done to death by the wife of his bosom, -- by Xenophon
Hiero
While of tyrants, many have been murderers of their own children, many by their children murdered. Many brothers have been murderers of one another in contest for the crown;many a monarch has been done to death by the wife of his bosom, -- by Xenophon
HILLS OF DEATH
A chaos of bewildering nightmares still troubled Clyde. He could picture hideous, fanciful creatures that had surrounded him. They seemed to people this very room, as if ready to spring forth and begin new torment. Clyde felt an irresistible desire to be gone from these premises.
Hippolytus
By Euripides. Don't mess with Aphrodite.
His Last Bow
The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled
by occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the downs five miles
from Eastbourne, where his time is divided between philosophy and agriculture.
His Own People
The following afternoon found him still in that enviable condition as he stood listening to the music on the Pincian Hill. He had it of rumor that the Fashion of Rome usually took a turn there before it went to tea, and he had it from the lady herself that Madame de Vaurigard would be there. Presently she came, reclining in a victoria, the harness of her horses flashing with gold in the sunshine.
Historia Calamitatum
FORTHWITH I repaired to my own country, and brought back thence my mistress, that I might make her my
wife. She, however, most violently disapproved of this, and for two chief reasons: the danger thereof, and the
disgrace which it would bring upon me. She swore that her uncle would never be appeased by such satisfaction as this, as, indeed, afterwards proved only too true. -- Peter Abelard
Historic Girls
For the "Great King," having killed and stuffed the captive Roman Emperor, now turned his
arms against the Roman power in the east and, destroying both Antioch and Emesa, looked with an
evil eye toward Palmyra. Zenobia, remembering the omen of the eagle and the lion, repeated her
counsel of facing craft with craft, and letters and gifts had been sent to Sapor, asking for peace and
friendship. --by E. S. Brooks
Historical Lectures and Essays
I wish to speak to you to-night about one of those old despotic empires which were in every case the earliest known form of civilisation. Were I minded to play the cynic or the mountebank, I should choose some corrupt and effete despotism, already grown weak and ridiculous by its decay--as did at last the Roman and then the Byzantine Empire
HISTORY OF ANIMALS
With regard to animals in general, some parts or organs are common to all, as has been said, and some are common only to particular genera; the parts, moreover, are identical with or different from one another on the lines already repeatedly laid down. For as a general rule all animals that are generically distinct have the majority of their parts or organs different in form or species; and some of them they have only analogically similar and diverse in kind or genus
History of Friedrich II of Prussia
In 23 volumes. Complete.
History of Herodotus Vol. 2
Of these things the Hellenes who were stationed at Artemision were informed by fire-signals from Skiathos; and being informed
of them and being struck with fear, they removed their place of anchorage from Atermision to Chalkis, intending to guard the Euripos,
but leaving at the same time watchers by day[170] on the heights of Eubœa.
History of John Bull
When John first brought out the bills, the surprise of all the family was unexpressible at the prodigious
dimensions of them; they would have measured with the best bale of cloth in John's shop. Fees to judges,
puny judges, clerks, prothonotaries, philisers, chirographers, under-clerks, proclamators, counsel, witnesses,
jurymen, marshals, tipstaffs, criers, porters--by John Arbuthnot
History Of The Britons (Historia Brittonum)
Then it was, that the magnanimous Arthur, with all the kings and
military force of Britain, fought against the Saxons. And though
there were many more noble than himself, yet he was twelve times
chosen their commander, and was as often conqueror. -- by Nennius
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
On the basis of this view of the structure of the world great religious systems have been founded, and hence
powerful material interests have been engaged in its support. These have resisted, sometimes by resorting
to bloodshed, attempts that have been made to correct its incontestable errors--a resistance grounded on the
suspicion that the localization of heaven and hell and the supreme value of man in the universe might be
affected. --by John Draper
History of the Conquest of Mexico
He showed little fondness for books, and after loitering away two years at college,
returned home, to the great chagrin of his parents. Yet his time had not been wholly misspent,
since he had laid up a little store of Latin, and learned to write good prose, and even verses "of
some estimation, considering"-as an old writer quaintly remarks-"Cortes as the author." --by William Hickling Prescott
History Of The Conquest Of Peru
But little is told of Francisco's early years, and that little not always deserving of credit.
According to some, he was deserted by both his parents, and left as a foundling at the door of one
of the principal churches of the city. It is even said that he would have perished, had he not been
nursed by a sow.3 This is a more discreditable fountain of supply--by William Hickling Prescott
History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol. 1
Yet Commodus was not, as he has been represented, a tiger born with an insatiate thirst of human blood, and capable, from his infancy, of the most inhuman actions. Nature had formed him of a weak rather than a wicked disposition. His simplicity and timidity rendered him the slave of his attendants, who gradually corrupted his mind. His cruelty, which at first obeyed the dictates of others, degenerated into habit, and at length became the ruling passion of his soul.
History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol. 2
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of mind calmly to investigate, or candidly to appreciate, the motives of their enemies, which often escape the impartial and discerning view even of those who are placed at a secure distance from the flames of persecution. A reason has been assigned for the conduct of the emperors towards the primitive Christians
History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol. 3
If the subjects of Rome could be ignorant of their obligations to the great Theodosius, they were too soon convinced, how painfully the spirit and abilities of their deceased emperor had supported the frail and mouldering edifice of the republic. He died in the month of January; and before the end of the winter of the same year, the Gothic nation was in arms.
History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol. 4
After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is faintly marked by the obscure names and imperfect annals of Zeno, Anastasius, and Justin, who successively ascended to the throne of Constantinople. During the same period, Italy revived and flourished under the government of a Gothic king, who might have deserved a statue among the best and bravest of the ancient Romans.
History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol. 5
When the Arabs first issued from the desert, they must have been surprised at the ease and rapidity of their own success. But when they advanced in the career of victory to the banks of the Indus and the summit of the Pyrenees; when they had repeatedly tried the edge of their cimeters and the energy of their faith, they might be equally astonished that any nation could resist their invincible arms; that any boundary should confine the dominion of the successor of the prophet.
History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Vol. 6
They chose four ambassadors, Matthew of Montmorency, our historian the marshal of Champagne, and two Venetians, to congratulate the emperor. The gates were thrown open on their approach, the streets on both sides were lined with the battle axes of the Danish and English guard: the presence-chamber glittered with gold and jewels, the false substitute of virtue and power: by the side of the blind Isaac his wife was seated, the sister of the king of Hungary:
History of the Destruction of Jerusalem
But John made use of this festival as a cloak for his
treacherous designs, and armed the most inconsiderable of his own party, the greater part of
whom were not purified, with weapons concealed under their garments, and sent them with
great zeal into the temple, in order to seize upon it;
History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Edmund G. Ross' tale of that other impeachment.
History Of The Peloponnesian War
Um, yeah, about that Syracuse thing... -- by Thucydides.
History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany
In Germany, the
schisms in the church produced also a lasting political schism, which made that country for
more than a century the theatre of confusion, but at the same time threw up a firm barrier
against political oppression. It was, too, the Reformation principally that first drew the northern
powers, Denmark and Sweden, into the political system of Europe--by Friedrich Schiller
Honorine
Alas!
neither in politics nor in domestic life has it yet been ascertained whether empires and happiness
are wrecked by too much confidence or too much severity! Perhaps again, the husband failed to
realize Honorine's girlish dreams? Who can tell, while happy days last, what precepts he has
neglected?'
Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up
In front of Cowan's a crowd of nine happy-go-lucky, daredevil riders were sliding from their saddles.
They threw their reins over the heads of their mounts and filed in to the bar. Laughter issued from
the open door and the clink of glasses could be heard. They stood in picturesque groups, strong,
self-reliant, humorous, virile. --by Clarence Edward Mulford
Hospital Sketches
"Wash, dress, feed, warm and nurse them for the next three months, I dare say. Eighty beds are ready,
and we were getting impatient for the men to come. Now you will begin to see hospital life in earnest, for
you won't probably find time to sit down all day, and may think yourself fortunate if you get to bed by
midnight. Come to me in the ball-room when you are ready; the worst cases are always carried there,
and I shall need your help.
HOUSE OF GHOSTS
BY daylight, Stanbridge Manor looked decrepit rather than fearsome, yet Margo Lane disliked the place the moment she saw it. The house was ugly, its sprawly wings out of proportion to its low two stories. Rather than improving the architecture, the watchtower made it look worse, for the tower itself appeared to be something that had been stuck in place as an afterthought.
HOUSE OF SHADOWS
Turk wasn't in the fray. He had grabbed Denry, was dragging him through the rear doorway. Shank was still there; as the pair went by, the lieutenant turned on a flashlight and swept its ray through the middle room. The gleam showed The Shadow hurling away the last of the attacking mobbies.
HOUSE OF SILENCE
That, however, was no indication of their coming actions. Blink Torgue might be the type who would work by a set system; but Blink was not the field marshal who commanded crime. The brain was stationed within the old house; he was a master of crooked craft. With the Feds anxious to thwart the crooks, it was likely that the mastermind would adopt new and unexpected tactics.
How is Society Possible?
The things in nature are, on the one hand, more widely separated than souls. In the outward world, in which each entity occupies space which cannot be shared with another, there is no analogy for the unity of one man with another, which consists in understanding, in love, in common work. On the other hand, the fragments of spatial existence pass into a unity in the consciousness of the observer
How Labour Governs
THE remarks of the A.W.U. delegates, with which we concluded the last chapter, are
symptomatic of the change which had come over the outlook of industrialists since the
beginning of the century. To understand this change it will be necessary to go back several
years; for the roots of the revolt against politicalism go back as far as 1907.--by Vere Gordon Childe
How Spring Came in New England
. The delusion is complete, when, on a mild evening, the tree-toads open their brittle- brattle chorus on the edge of the pond. The citizen asks his neighbor, "Did you hear the frogs last night?" That seems to open the new world. One thinks of his childhood and its innocence, and of his first loves. It fills one with sentiment and a tender longing, this voice of the tree-toad.
How the Other Half Lives
THERE is another line not always so readily drawn in the tenements, yet the real boundary line of the Other Half: the one that defines the "flat." The law does not draw it at all, accounting all flats tenements without distinction. The health officer draws it from observation, lumping all those which in his judgment have nothing, or not enough, to give them claim upon the name, with the common herd--by Jacob Riis
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
"But," someone may remark, with the English disregard of everything except the point, "what is he driving at with his twenty-four hours a day? I have no difficulty in living on twenty-four hours a day. I do all that I want to do, and still find time to go in for newspaper competitions. Surely it is a simple affair, knowing that one has only twenty-four hours a day, to content one's self with twenty-four hours a day!"--by Arnold Bennett
Hudibras
Ah me! what perils do environ/The man that meddles with cold iron!/What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps/Do dog him still with after-claps!/For though dame Fortune seem to smile/And leer upon him for a while,/She'll after shew him, in the nick/Of all his glories, a dog-trick.--by Samuel Butler
Hunted Down
Most of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have
within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however unpromising the opportunity
may, at first sight, seem.
Hunter Quatermain's Story
"Accordingly, after passing a comfortless night by the remains of my waggon, we started next morning on our long journey towards civilization. Now if I were to set to work to tell you all the troubles and incidents of that dreadful journey I should keep you listening here till midnight; so I will, with your permission, pass on to the particular adventure of which the pair of buffalo horns opposite are the melancholy memento.
Hymen
It was easy enough/to bend them to my wish,/it was easy enough/to alter them with a touch,/but you/adrift on the great sea,/how shall I call you back?
Hyperion
Just at the self-same beat of Time's wide wings/Hyperion slid into the rustled air/And Saturn gain'd with Thea that sad place/Where Cybele and the bruised Titans mourn'd. -- by John Keats
I Have a Dream
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. --by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Say No
As an aid to the vigilance of the sentinel, the door had been left ajar. Through the narrow opening, a creaking of the broad wooden stairs of the old house became audible. In another moment there was silence. An interval passed, and the creaking was heard again. This time, the sound was distant and diminishing. On a sudden it stopped. The midnight silence was disturbed no more.
Idle Ideas in 1905
Pretty women are going to have a hard time of it later on. Hitherto, they have had things far too much
their own way. In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be
no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies'
papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society
an acknowledged beauty. And it is all done by kindness.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
You've been in love, of course! If not you've got it to come. Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once. One never need be afraid of catching it a second time. The man who has had it can go into the most dangerous places and play the most foolhardy tricks with perfect safety. -- by Jerome K. Jerome
If
BILL/Well, anyway, I won't let any more of/them passengers go jumping into trains any/
more, not when they're moving, I won't./
When the train gets in, doors shut. /That's
the rule. And they'll 'ave to abide by it.--by Edward James Plunkett (Lord Dunsany)
Imaginary Portraits
Fictionalized accounts of historic figures, all of them searching for a new aesthetic. By Walter Pater.
In Defense of Women
Turn, for example, to the field in which the two sexes come most constantly into conflict, and in which, as a result, their habits of mind are most clearly contrasted--to the field, to wit, of monogamous marriage. Surely no long argument is needed to demonstrate the superior competence and effectiveness of women here, and therewith their greater self-possession, their saner weighing of considerations, their higher power of resisting emotional suggestion. --by Henry Louis Mencken
In Search of the Castaways or, The Children of Captain Grant
ALL that could be discovered, however, on these pieces of paper was a few words here and there, the
remainder of the lines being almost completely obliterated by the action of the water. Lord Glenarvan
examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the
light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of writing, while the others looked on with anxious eyes.
In the Bishop's Carriage
An early blockbuster mystery. By Miriam Michaelson.
In the Cage
It had occurred to her early that in her position--that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpie--she should know a great many persons without their recognising the acquaintance.
In the Heart of Africa
IT was the season of rejoicing. Everybody appeared in good humor. The distended udders of thousands of camels were an assurance of plenty. The burning sun that for nine months had scorched the earth was veiled by passing clouds. The cattle that had panted for water, and whose food was withered straw, were filled with juicy fodder.--by Samuel White Baker
In The Seven Woods
SWEETHEART, do not love too long:/I loved long and long,/And grew to be out of fashion/Like an old song./All through the years of our youth/Neither could have known/Their own thought from the other's,/We were so much at one./But O, in a minute she changed -/O do not love too long,/Or you will grow out of fashion/Like an old song.
In the Shadow of the Glen
And what way will yourself live from this day, with
none to care for you? What is it you'll have now but a black
life, Daniel Burke, and it's not long I'm telling you, till
you'll be lying again under that sheet, and you dead surely.
In the South Seas
The glow continued and increased, the business, from the main part, ceased before it had begun.
Twice in the day there was a certain stir of shepherding along the seaward hills. At times a
canoe went out to fish. At times a woman or two languidly filled a basket in the cotton patch.
In the Wilderness
The encounter was unpremeditated on both sides. I was not hunting for a bear, and I have no reason to suppose that a bear was looking for me. The fact is, that we were both out blackberrying, and met by chance, the usual way. There is among the Adirondack visitors always a great deal of conversation about bears,--a general expression of the wish to see one in the woods, and much speculation as to how a person would act
Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed
While I advised him to be good and forgiving I was not unconscious of the beam in my own eye. It was the very knowledge of my own shortcomings that urged me to retain, if possible, some sparks of my brother's God-given nature. I had not lived fourteen years in slavery for nothing. I had felt, seen, and heard enough, to read the characters, and question the motives, of those around me. --by Harriet Jacobs
Incognita
Here Aurelian contracted an acquaintance with Persons of Worth of several Countries, but among the rest an intimacy with a Gentleman of Quality of Spain, and Nephew to the Archbishop of Toledo, who had so wrought himself into the Affections of Aurelian, through a Conformity of Temper, an Equality in Years, and something of resemblance in Feature and Proportion, that he look'd upon him as his second self.
Indian Summer of a Forsyte and In Chancery
The little spirits of the past which throng an old man's days had never pushed their faces up to his so seldom
as in the seventy hours elapsing before Sunday came. The spirit of the future, with the charm of the unknown,
put up her lips instead. Old Jolyon was not restless now, and paid no visits to the log, because she was
coming to lunch. -- Volume II in the Forsyte Saga
Indica
Giving his right hand to Nearchus and
leading him aside from the Companions and the bodyguard, for a long time he wept; but at length
recovering himself he said: 'That you come back safe to us, and Archias here, the entire disaster
is tempered to me; but how perished the fleet and the force?'
Industrial Biography
That industry had a sore time of it during the civil wars will further appear from the following brief account of Andrew Yarranton, which may be taken as a companion memoir to that of Dud Dudley. For Yarranton also was a Worcester ironmaster and a soldier--though on the opposite side,--but more even than Dudley was he a man of public spirit and enterprise, an enlightened political economist --by Samuel Smiles
Initials Only
For a day Sweetwater acknowledged himself to be mentally crushed, disillusioned and defeated. Then his
spirits regained their poise. It would take a heavy weight indeed to keep them down permanently. His opinion was not changed in regard to his neighbour's secret guilt.
Intentions
ERNEST. Well, while you have been playing, I have been turning over the pages with some amusement, though, as a rule, I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering; which, however, is, no doubt, the true explanation of their popularity, as the English public always feels perfectly at its ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
Interpretation of Dreams
Be a hit at parties.
INTIMIDATION, INC.
There were two methods of approach, both well-known but seldom used. The first was to visit Sack's office, for the racketeer had a sumptuous suite where he handled his business. The trouble with that route was the necessity of an appointment. Only persons who made arrangements beforehand could expect to find Sack at his office.
Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals
The active faculty of the human mind, as the faculty of desire in its widest sense, is the power which man has,
through his mental representations, of becoming the cause of objects corresponding to these
representations. The capacity of a being to act in conformity with his own representations is what constitutes
the life of such a being.
Ion
SOCRATES: I often envy the profession of a rhapsode, Ion; for you have always to wear fine clothes, and to look as beautiful as you can is a part of your art. Then, again, you are obliged to be continually in the company of many good poets; and especially of Homer, who is the best and most divine of them; and to understand him, and not merely learn his words by rote, is a thing greatly to be envied
Irish Fairy Tales
Fionn got his first training among women. There is no
wonder in that, for it is the pup's mother teaches it to fight, and women know that fighting is a
necessary art although men pretend there are others that are better. These were the women
druids, Bovmall and Lia Luachra. --by James Stephens
Is Shakespeare Dead?
When Shakespeare died, in 1616, great literary productions attributed to him as author had been before the London world and in high favor for twenty-four years. Yet his death was not an event. It made no stir, it attracted no attention. Apparently his eminent literary contemporaries did not realize that a celebrated poet had passed from their midst.
Isaac Bickerstaff
From Richard Steele, the founder of the Tatler, later the Spectator. Bickerstaff was first used by Jonathan Swift to poke fun.
Island Nights' Entertainments
They say it scares a man to be alone. No such thing. What scares him in the dark or the high
bush is that he can't make sure, and there might be an army at his elbow. What scares him
worst is to be right in the midst of a crowd, and have no guess of what they're driving at. When
that laugh stopped, I stopped too.
Ivanhoe
The Lady Rowena,'' he said,
possesses not the language in which to reply to your courtesy, or to sustain
her part in your festival. I also, and the noble Athelstane of Coningsburgh, speak only the language, and
practise only the manners, of our fathers. We therefore decline with thanks your Highness's courteous
invitation to the banquet.
Jabberwocky
And, as in uffish thought he stood,/The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,/Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,/And burbled as it came!
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill never cared to say much about the night which followed the first coasting party of the season, for it
was the saddest and the hardest their short lives had ever known. Jack suffered most in body; for the setting of
the broken leg was such a painful job, that it wrung several sharp cries from him, and made Frank, who
helped, quite weak and white with sympathy, when it was over.
James Pethel
I WAS shocked this morning when I saw in my newspaper a paragraph announcing his sudden death. I do not say that the shock was very disagreeable. One reads a newspaper for the sake of news. Had I never met James Pethel, belike I should never have heard of him: and my knowledge of his death, coincident with my knowledge that he had existed, would have meant nothing at all to me.
Jane Eyre
Family, charity, love, religion, and, oh yeah, a madwoman in the attic.
Jane Eyre
Rochester, St. John, Family -- and a madwoman in the attic. By Charlotte Bronte
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
The first books he read were for the most part borrowed. Customers who came to the shop to be shaved or have their hair dressed, took an interest in the conversation of the bright, cheerful, dark-eyed lad, and some of them lent him books to read. What joy possessed him when he took refuge in his garret with a new book! Opening the book was like opening the door of a new world. What enchantment! What mystery! --by Samuel Smiles
Java Head
There would be the keenest irony in exposing
her to himself before the complacent ignorance of her husband. He knew such women: convicted in
Chinese, perhaps before the entire Ammidon family, not a muscle of her face would betray
surprise or concern.
Jean of the Lazy A
You would think that the bare word of a man who has lived uprightly in a community for fifteen years or so would be believed under oath, even if his whole future did depend upon it. You would think that Aleck Douglas could not be convicted of murder just because he had reported that a man was shot down in Aleck's house.
Jefferson and his Colleagues, A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty
President Jefferson took office in a spirit of exultation which he made no effort to disguise in his private letters. "The tough sides of our Argosie," he wrote to John Dickinson, "have been thoroughly tried. Her strength has stood the waves into which she was steered with a view to sink her. We shall put her on her Republican tack, and she will now show by the beauty of her motion the skill of her builders."-- by Allen Johnson
Jerry of the Islands
Not until Mister Haggin abruptly picked him up under one arm and stepped into the sternsheets of the waiting whaleboat, did Jerry dream that anything untoward was to happen to him. Mister Haggin was Jerry's beloved master, and had been his beloved master for the six months of Jerry's life. Jerry did not know Mister Haggin as "master," for "master" had no place in Jerry's vocabulary, Jerry being a smooth-coated, golden-sorrel Irish terrier.
Jerusalem Delivered
God sends his angel to Tortosa down,/Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights;/And all the Lords and Princes of renown/Choose him their Duke, to rule the wares and fights. -- by Torquato Tasso
Jesse James, the Outlaw
Jesse James and his veterans had before this dismounted, while we at the side of the track remained still in the saddle. Jesse now stood in the center of the track, bearing in his hand a red lantern, which one of the Youngers had obtained at their farmhouse. He waved it three times over his head as the train approached, and it came to a stop within a dozen feet of the stone heap on which he was standing. --by W. B. Lawson
Jettatura
The nails on these fingers, curved like tigers' claws and
vultures' talons, came closer and closer to his face and appeared to seek to tear his eyes out. By a supreme
effort he managed to brush aside these hands that were winged like bats, but the hands were followed by
heads of bulls, buffaloes, and stags, the whitened skulls filled with a life that was death, and which goring him
with horns or anuers--By Theophile Gautier
Jibaro Death
The knob was turned; The Shadow had stepped to a darkened passage past the door; when Cardell made his exit. The blond-haired man looked back and forth along the hall; but his inspection was a brief one. He was more interested in eying closed doors than in viewing darkened corners. Cardell caught no sight of The Shadow.
Joan of Naples, the Man in the Iron Mask, Martin Guerre
Who was the Man in the Mask? Was he rapt away into this silent seclusion from the luxury of a court, from the intrigues of
diplomacy, from the scaffold of a traitor, from the clash of battle? What did he leave behind? Love, glory, or a throne? What did
he regret when hope had fled? Did he pour forth imprecations and curses on his tortures and blaspheme against high Heaven, or
did he with a sigh possess his soul in patience?
Joe, the Hotel Boy; Or Winning Out By Pluck
The wind was now rising, and it soon blew so furiously that the two boys were forced to seek the shelter of the woodshed, since they did not deem it wise to enter the lodge so long as the two men were inside. They waited in the shed for fully half an hour, when, as suddenly as it had begun, the storm let up and the sun began to peep forth from between the scattering clouds.
John Barleycorn
It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California. Because of the warmth of the day I had had several drinks before casting my ballot, and divers drinks after casting it.
John Dough and the Cherub
The Great Elixir had accomplished its purpose. The wonderful Essence of Vitality, prized for centuries and closely guarded, had lent its marvelous powers of energy, strength, and life to a gingerbread man! And all through the stupidity of a baker's wife who was color-blind and could not distinguish a golden flask from a silver one!
John Ingerfield and Other Stories
Wild-reindeer stalking is hardly so exciting a sport as the evening's verandah talk in Norroway hotels would lead the trustful traveller to suppose. Under the charge of your guide, a very young man with the dreamy, wistful eyes of those who live in valleys, you leave the farmstead early in the forenoon, arriving towards twilight at the desolate hut
John Marshall and the Constitution
Subtitled: A Chronicle of the Supreme Court--by Edward S. Corwin
Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon
But when I say the conversation of travelers is usually so welcome, I must be understood to
mean that only of such as have had good sense enough to apply their peregrinations to a proper
use, so as to acquire from them a real and valuable knowledge of men and things, both which are
best known by comparison.--by Henry Fielding
Juana
An awful destiny! Juana, who felt neither esteem nor love for Diard, was bound to him forever, by a
rash but necessary promise. The man was neither handsome nor well-made. His manners, devoid of all
distinction, were a mixture of the worst army tone, the habits of his province, and his own insufficient
education. How could she love Diard, she, a young girl all grace and elegance
Jude the Obscure
An attack on marriage? Or a description...
JUDGE LAWLESS
There was a certain truth in what the pair said. Cliff and Hawkeye had spotted two things while Dave was in the empty house: first, the change in the lunchroom across the way; next, the arrival of the police. In ducking through an alley, they'd heard Dave rattling at the back door, so they had let him out.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
TEEKA, STRETCHED AT luxurious ease in the shade of the tropical forest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young, feminine loveliness. Or at least so thought Tarzan of the Apes, who squatted upon a low-swinging branch in a near-by tree and looked down upon her.
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
IN Continental periodicals not more than a dozen articles in all would seem to have given accounts or partial
translations of the Jurgen legends. No thorough investigation of this epos can be said to have appeared in print,
anywhere, prior to the publication, in 1913, of the monumental Synopses of Aryan Mythology by Angelo de Ruiz.
Just David
And David, after another moment's wistful eyeing of the caressing fingers, turned about and wandered out
onto the side porch. A minute later, having seated himself on the porch steps, he had taken from his pocket
two small pieces of folded paper. And then, through tear-dimmed eyes, he read once more his father's letter.
Just So Stories
'Fiddle!' said the Leopard. 'I remember them perfectly on the High Veldt, especially their marrow-bones. Giraffe is about seventeen feet high, of a 'sclusively fulvous golden-yellow from head to heel; and Zebra is about four and a half feet high, of a'sclusively grey-fawn colour from head to heel.'
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Short stories in the Kai Lung ouevre.
Karl Ludwig Sand, Urbain Grandier and Nisida
Urbain Granadier was not satisfied with the arrogant demonstration by which he signalised his return, which
even his friends had felt to be ill advised; instead of allowing the hate he had aroused to die away or at least to
fall asleep by letting the past be past, he continued with more zeal than ever his proceedings against
Duthibaut, and succeeded in obtaining a decree from the Parliament of La Tournelle
Kenilworth
Philip had put the book down on the table, and Doctor South took it up. It was a volume of an edition which
had belonged to the Vicar of Blackstable. It was a thin book bound in faded morocco, with a copperplate
engraving as a frontispiece; the pages were musty with age and stained with mould. Philip, without meaning
to, started forward a little as Doctor South took the volume in his hands, and a slight smile came into his
eyes.
Khent
The day after these events occurred, a horseman, dressed like a Kurd and whistling like a lark, entered the camp of Gen. Lord Lucasoff. He said he had brought an important dispatch addressed to the general, so he was taken to the general's tent. He sent the letter in by the band of an officer while he remained without to care for his horse. After a few moments he was summoned to present himself to the general. -- by Raffi
Kidnapped
Being Memoirs Of The Adventures Of David Balfour In The Year 1751, How He Was Kidnapped And Cast Away; His Sufferings In A Desert Isle; His Journey In The Wild Highlands; His Acquaintance With Alan Breck Stewart And Other Notorious Highland Jacobites; With All That He Suffered At The Hands Of His Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour Of Shaws, Falsely So Called
Kim
He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that fire-breathing dragon, hold the Punjab, a for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot.
King James Bible
The straight HTML of this text is approximately 8 megabytes in size, so we have a new record-holder for this site.
King James Bible: Old Testament
Written by many.
King John, Richard II, Richard III, Henry VIII
Rounding out our Shakespearian history collection. In one text.
King Lear
Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad,
the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in
the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages,
eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and
the ditch-dog;
KING OF THE BLACK MARKET
FROM the speed with which The Shadow had clipped one murderous gunner, it seemed that crime's thrust was through. Whether the crook at the head end of the car had recognized Chet, or simply classed him as an unwanted rider, was a matter of comparative unimportance.
King Solomon's Mines
"See, my lords," she said, holding the light before her, "those who stored the treasure here fled in haste, and bethought them to guard against any who should find the secret of the door, but had not the time," and she pointed to large square blocks of stone,
Kirkham's Find
Morrison and Kirkham were too anxious to talk. To Sam McAlister this was just an incident. If
they found gold, well and good; he would have a jolly old spree down south; but it didn't much
matter; it would do just as well six months hence as now, while, if they did not find even the
colour, he would be no worse off than he was before. --by Mary Gaunt
Knights of the Art: Stories of the Italian Painters
Then, indeed, began happy days for Filippo. No more threadbare coats, but a warm little brown serge robe, tied round the waist with a rope whose ends grew daily shorter as the way round his waist grew longer. No more lupin skins and whiffs of fried polenta, but food enough and to spare; such food as he had not dreamt of before, and always as much as he could eat. -- by Amy Steedman
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Japanese tales, translated by Lafcadio Hearn.
La Grande Breteche
During my stay
at Vendome, where Despleins had left me in charge of a rich patient, the sight of this strange
dwelling became one of my keenest pleasures. Was it not far better than a ruin? Certain memories
of indisputable authenticity attach themselves to a ruin; but this house, still standing, though
being slowly destroyed by an avenging hand, contained a secret, an unrevealed thought.
La Grenadiere
La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go down stream, about a mile
below the bridge of Tours. At this point the river, broad as a lake, and covered with scattered
green islands, flows between two lines of cliff, where country houses built uniformly of white stone
stand among their gardens and vineyards. The finest fruit in the world ripens there with a
southern exposure.
La Morte Amoureuse (Clarimonde)
He ceased to speak and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the effect of his words on me. I could not refrain from starting when I heard him utter the name of Clarimonde, and this news of her death, in addition to the pain it caused me by reason of its coincidence with the nocturnal scenes I had witnessed, filled me with an agony and terror which my face betrayed
Laches
LACHES: Indeed, Lysimachus, you ought not to give him up; for I can assure you that I have seen him maintaining, not only his father's, but also his country's name. He was my companion in the retreat from Delium, and I can tell you that if others had only been like him, the honour of our country would have been upheld, and the great defeat would never have occurred.
Laddie, A True Blue Story
That spring I decided if school didn't stop pretty soon, I'd run away again, and I didn't in the least care what they did to me. A country road was all right and it was good enough, if it had been heaped up, leveled and plenty of gravel put on; and of course our road would be fine, because father was one of the commissioners, and as long as he filled that office, every road in the county would be just as fine
Lady Anna
Not a word had been heard in Keswick of the proposed return of the old lord -- for the Earl was now an old man -- past his sixtieth year, and in truth with as many signs of age as some men bear at eighty. The life which he had led no doubt had had its allurements, but it is one which hardly admits of a hale and happy evening. Men who make women a prey, prey also on themselves. But there he was, back at Lovel Grange, and no one knew why he had come, nor whence, nor how.
Lady Audley's Secret
CHAPTER IV. THE HUSH THAT SUCCEEDS THE TEMPEST. -- by M.E. Braddon
Lady Baltimore
But you have noticed--have you not?--how, whenever a few people gather together and style themselves something, and choose a president, and eight or nine vice-presidents, and a secretary and a treasurer, and a committee on elections, and then let it be known that almost nobody else is qualified to belong to it, that there springs up immediately in hundreds and thou- sands of breasts a fiery craving to get into that body?
Lady Chatterly's Lover
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among
the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no
smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how
many skies have fallen. -- by DH Lawrence
Lady Susan
A tale comprised entirely of letters.
Lady Windermere's Fan
LADY WINDERMERE. There is not a GOOD woman in London who would not applaud me. We have been too lax. We must make an example. I propose to begin to-night. [Picking up fan.] Yes, you gave me this fan to-day; it was your birthday present. If that woman crosses my threshold, I shall strike her across the face with it.
Lamia
John Keats and Vampires.
Lancelot or, The Knight of the Cart
From the
moment he caught sight of her, he did not turn or take his eyes and face from her, defending himself
with backhand blows. And Meleagant meanwhile attacked him as fiercely as he could, delighted to
think that the other cannot withstand him now; and they of the country are well pleased too, while the
foreigners are so distressed that they can no longer support themselves
LAND OF ALWAYS-NIGHT
'Remarkable' is putting it mild," Watches snorted. "That bird Savage is a wizard! They say he knows all about electricity and chemistry and psychology and engineering and them things. They say he's a mental marvel. On top of that, he's supposed to be able to bend horseshoes in his hands, and things like that."
Last of the Great Scouts, The Life Story of William F. Cody
Though to us younger children our brother Samuel was but a shadowy memory, in him had centered our parents' fondest hopes and aims. These, naturally, were transferred to the younger, now the only son, and the hope that mother, especially, held for him was strangely stimulated by the remembrance of the mystic divination of a soothsayer in the years agone--by Helen Cody Wetmore
Last Poems
No marble, no conventional phrase;/On limestone quarried near the spot/By his command these words are cut:/Cast a cold eye/On life, on death./Horseman, pass by!
Lavengro
The scenes of action lie in the British Islands; - pray be not displeased, gentle reader, if perchance thou hast imagined that I was about to conduct thee to distant lands, and didst promise thyself much instruction and entertainment from what I might tell thee of them -- George Borrow
Laws
The greatest wrongs arise out of youthful insolence, and the greatest of all are committed against public temples; they are in the second degree great when private rites and sepulchres are insulted; in the third degree, when committed against parents; in the fourth degree, when they are done against the authority or property of the rulers; in the fifth degree, when the rights of individuals are violated.
Laxdaela Saga
Ketill Flatnose was the name of a man. He was the son of Bjorn the Ungartered. Ketill was a mighty and high-born chieftain (hersir) in Norway. He abode in Raumsdale, within the folkland of the Raumsdale people, which lies between Southmere and Northmere. Ketill Flatnose had for wife Yngvild, daughter of Ketill Wether-- also known as The Saga of the Men of Salmon-River Dale
Le Morte d'Arthur Vol. 1
Part 1 of Thomas Mallory's classic. Or, for them of you that's scholarly, some dude in jail translates the Vulgate Cycle.
Le Morte d'Arthur Vol. 2
Part Two of Mallory's epic. Hey, the way some of the stories are out of order isn't my fault.
Leaves of Grass
I believe this is the fourth edition (like that guy who keeps remaking film versions of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, Walt Whitman had just the one book all his life that he kept redoing. Still, it was enough to earn the man a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike, so don't say poetry doesn't pay.)
LECTURE ON THE TIMES
But the subject of the Times is not an abstract question. We talk of the world, but we mean a few men and women. If you speak of the age, you mean your own platoon of people, as Milton and Dante painted in colossal their platoons, and called them Heaven and Hell. In our idea of progress, we do not go out of this personal picture. We do not think the sky will be bluer, or honey sweeter, or our climate more temperate, but only that our relation to our fellows will be simpler and happier.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The great peculiarity of the ancient laws of Ireland, so far as they are accessible to us, is discussed,
with much instructive illustration, in the General Preface to the Third Volume of the official translations.
They are not a legislative structure, but the creation of a class of professional lawyers, the Brehons,
whose occupation became hereditary, and who on that ground have been designated, though not with
strict accuracy, a caste.--by Henry Sumner Maine
Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England
Malthus tells us that his book was suggested by Godwin's Inquiry, but it was really prompted by the rapid growth of pauperism which Malthus saw around him, and the book proved the main influence which determined the reform of the English Poor Laws. The problem of pauperism came upon men in its most terrible form between 1795 and 1834. The following statistics will illustrate its growth: --by Arnold Toynbee
LEGACY OF DEATH
Soaked with water was the memo pad, but it was drying under the strong heat of Creff's desk lamp. Blank when Cardona had left the study, the pad now bore a note. The writing was plain, for the ink hadn't blurred too badly. That note solved the riddle of four deaths.
Les Miserables
Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by certain signs,
Thenardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very strong person. It was like an intuition; he
comprehended it with his clear and sagacious promptitude.
Less Than Words Can Say
It is possible, Sagan says, to damage the brain in precisely such a way that the victim will
lose the ability to understand the passive or to devise prepositional phrases or something like that. No cases
are cited, unfortunately--it would be fun to chat with some victim--but the whole idea is attractive, because if it
were true it would explain many things.
Letter to Menoeceus
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more. Therefore, both old and young ought to seek wisdom--by Epicurus
Letters of Two Brides
Oh! Renee, you have made me miserable for days! So that bewitching body, those beautiful proud
features, that natural grace of manner, that soul full of priceless gifts, those eyes, where the
soul can slake its thirst as at a fountain of love, that heart, with its exquisite delicacy, that
breadth of mind, those rare powers--fruit of nature and of our interchange of
thought
Leviathan
Nasty and brutish perhaps, but definitely, definitely not short. -- by Thomas Hobbes
Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
When fired upon Capt. Egan was shot. I was riding in advance and on hearing the firing turned in my saddle and saw the Captain reeling in his saddle as though about to fall. I turned my horse and galloped back with all haste to his side and got there in time to catch him as he was falling. I lifted him onto my horse in front of me and succeeded in getting him safely to the Fort. --by Herself
Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit
old Martin Chuzzlewit remained shut up in his own chamber, and saw no person but his young companion, saving the hostess of the Blue Dragon, who was, at certain times, admitted to his presence. So surely as she came into the room, however, Martin feigned to fall asleep. It was only when he and the young lady were alone, that he would utter a word
Life in the Iron-Mills
Wolfe, while Deborah watched him as a spaniel its master, bent over the furnace with his iron pole, unconscious
of her scrutiny, only stopping to receive orders. Physically, Nature had promised the man but little. He had already
lost the strength and instinct vigor of a man, his muscles were thin, his nerves weak, his face ( a meek, woman's
face) haggard, yellow with consumption. -- by Rebecca Harding Davis
Life of Charlotte Bronte Vol. 1
This is perhaps a fitting time to give some personal description of Miss Bronte. In 1831, she was a quiet,
thoughtful girl, of nearly fifteen years of age, very small in figure--"stunted" was the word she applied to
herself,--but as her limbs and head were in just proportion to the slight, fragile body, no word in ever so slight
a degree suggestive of deformity could properly be applied to her; with soft, thick, brown hair, and peculiar
eyes-- by Elizabeth Gaskell
Life of Charlotte Bronte Vol. 2
During this summer of 1846, while her literary hopes were waning, an anxiety of another kind was increasing.
Her father's eyesight had become seriously impaired by the progress of the cataract which was forming. He was
nearly blind. He could grope his way about, and recognise the figures of those he knew well, when they were
placed against a strong light; -- by Elizabeth Gaskell
Life of Johnson
Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man's life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited. --by James Boswell
Life of PT Barnum
About this time Barnum, with a Mr. Samuel Sherwood, of Bridgeport, started for Pittsburg, where they proposed
to open a lottery office. On reaching New York, however, and talking over the scheme with friends, the venture
was abandoned and the two men took, instead, a pleasure trip to Philadelphia. They stayed a week, at the end
of which time they returned to New York, with exactly twenty-seven cents between them. --by Joel Benton
LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!
Life's Little Ironies and a Few Crusted Characters
Whether the utilitarian or the intuitive theory of the moral sense be upheld, it is beyond question that there are a few subtle-souled persons with whom the absolute gratuitousness of an act of reparation is an inducement to perform it; while exhortation as to its necessity would breed excuses for leaving it undone. The case of Mr. Millborne and Mrs. Frankland particularly illustrated this, and perhaps something more.
Lilith
Held to be George Macdonald's Masterpiece.
Lin McLean
"Oh, leave me wear it just a minute! Do you collect arrow-heads? I think they're bully. There's the finest one you ever seen." He brought out the relic, tightly wrapped in paper, several pieces. "I foun' it myself, camping with father. It was sticking in a crack right on top of a rock, but nobody'd seen it till I came along. Ain't it fine?"
Literary Copyright
The relation between author and publisher ought to be neither complicated nor peculiar. The author may sell his product outright, or he may sell himself by an agreement similar to that which an employee in a manufacturing establishment makes with his master to give to the establishment all his inventions. Either of these methods is fair and businesslike, though it may not be wise.
Little Dorrit
The child put all these things between the bars into the soft, Smooth, well-shaped hand, with evident dread--more than once drawing back her own and looking at the man with her fair brow roughened into an expression half of fright and half of anger.
Little Journey in the World
We were talking about the want of diversity in American life, the lack of salient characters. It was not
at a club. It was a spontaneous talk of people who happened to be together, and who had fallen into an
uncompelled habit of happening to be together. There might have been a club for the study of the
Want of Diversity in American Life. The members would have been obliged to set apart a stated time
for it, to attend as a duty
Little Lord Fauntleroy
"If them's his lordship's orders, mem," another voice answered, they'll have to be kep', I suppose. But, if you'll
excuse the liberty, mem, as it's between ourselves, servant or no servant, all I have to say is, it's a cruel
thing,--parting that poor, pretty, young widdered cre'tur' from her own flesh and blood, and him such a little
beauty and a nobleman born.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
So Demi was transplanted to Plumfield, and took so kindly to the life there, that Meg and John and Grandpa
felt satisfied that they had done well. Mixing with other boys brought out the practical side of him, roused his
spirit, and brushed away the pretty cobwebs he was so fond of spinning in that little brain of his. To be sure,
he rather shocked his mother when he came home,
Little Novels
Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself. Neither revealed by a vision, nor announced by a voice, it reached mortal knowledge through the sense which is least easily self-deceived: the sense that feels.
Little Wizard Stories of Oz
"One is named Olite, and one Udent and one Ertinent, and they have no respect for anyone or anything. If strangers pass through the valley, the Imps jeer at them and make horrid faces and call names, and often they push travelers out of the path or throw stones at them. Whenever Imp Olite or Imp Udent or Imp Ertinent comes here to bother us, I and my family run into the house and lock all the doors and windows, and we dare not venture out again until the Imps have gone away."
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott's classic.
Lives, Sayings and Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel
Chapter 2.XXXI. How Pantagruel entered into the city of the Amaurots, and how Panurge
married King Anarchus to an old lantern-carrying hag, and made him a crier of green sauce. -- By Rabelais
Long Live the King
She was nearly distracted by that time. She was a brave woman, physically and mentally of hard fiber, but the
very name signed to the paper set her nerves to twitching. It was the Committee of Ten which had murdered
Prince Hubert and his young wife; the Committee of Ten which had exploded a bomb in the very Palace itself,
and killed old Breidau, of the King's Council
Long Odds
"Hastily I lit another match, and perceived that the eyes belonged to an old woman, wrapped up in a greasy leather garment. Taking her by the arm, I dragged her out, for she could not, or would not, come by herself, and the stench was overpowering me. Such a sight as she was--a bag of bones, covered over with black, shrivelled parchment. The only white thing about her was her wool, and she seemed to be pretty well dead except for her eyes and her voice.
Looking Backward From 2000 to 1887
"If I am going to explain our way of shopping to you," said my companion, as we walked along the street, "you must explain your way to me. I have never been able to understand it from all I have read on the subject. For example, when you had such a vast number of shops, each with its different assortment, how could a lady ever settle --by Edward Bellamy
LOOT OF DEATH
Daniel Jennery had given the law a verbatim account of his conversation with Skibo Hadlen. With tender care, the police had removed the huge chandelier from the center of the big banking room. They had found that it contained a bomb big enough to blast the whole banking floor and shake the skyscraper on its moorings. They had discovered a special wiring, capable of setting off the charge
Lord Arthur Saville's Crime and Other Stories
'Well, he is not a bit like a cheiromantist. I mean he is not mysterious, or esoteric, or romantic-looking. He
is a little, stout man, with a funny, bald head, and great gold-rimmed spectacles; something between a
family doctor and a country attorney. I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my
pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists
Lord Jim
He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. His voice was deep, loud, and his manner displayed a kind of dogged self-assertion which had nothing aggressive in it.
Lord of the World
From right to left of the huge interior, across the platforms, swelling every instant, surged an
enormous swaying, roaring crowd. The flight of steps, twenty yards broad, used only in cases of
emergency, resembled a gigantic black cataract nearly two hundred feet in height. Each car as it
drew up discharged more and more men and women, who ran like ants towards the assembly of
their fellows. The noise was indescribable--by Robert Hugh Benson
Lord Ormont and His Aminta
Farrell might pass; Aminta was debated. This female Christian name had a foreign twang; it gave
dissatisfaction. Boy after boy had a try at it, with the same effect: they could not speak the
name without a pursing of the mouth and a puckering of the nose, beastly to see, as one little
fellow reminded them on a day when Matey was in more than common favour
Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor
What a fool I must have been not to know it at once! Tom Faggus, the great highwayman, and his young blood-mare, the strawberry! Already her fame was noised abroad, nearly as much as her master's; and my longing to ride her grew tenfold, but fear came at the back of it. Not that I had the smallest fear of what the mare could do to me, by fair play and horse-trickery, but that the glory of sitting upon her seemed to be too great for me-- by R. D. Blackmore
Lost Face
Subienkow looked on, and shuddered. He was not afraid to die. He had carried his life too long in his hands, on that weary trail from Warsaw to Nulato, to shudder at mere dying. But he objected to the torture. It offended his soul. And this offence, in turn, was not due to the mere pain he must endure, but to the sorry spectacle the pain would make of him. (collection includes To Build a Fire).
Louis Lambert
"Often," he has said to me when speaking of his studies, "often have I made the most delightful voyage,
floating on a word down the abyss of the past, like an insect embarked on a blade of grass tossing on the
ripples of a stream. Starting from Greece, I would get to Rome, and traverse the whole extent of modern
ages. What a fine book might be written of the life and adventures of a word!
Louise de la Valliere
D'Artagnan had, according to his usual style, calculated that every hour is worth sixty minutes,
and every minute worth sixty seconds. Thanks to this perfectly exact calculation of minutes
and seconds, he reached the superintendent's door at the very moment the soldier was leaving
it with his belt empty.
Love and Other Stories
Love, Lights, A Story Without an End,
Mari d'Elle, A Living Chattel,
The Doctor, Too Early!, The Cossack,
Aborigines, An Inquiry, Martyrs,
The Lion and the Sun, A Daughter of Albion, Choristers, Nerves, A Work of Art, A Joke, A Country Cottage, A Blunder, Fat and Thin, The Death of a Government Clerk, A Pink Stocking, At a Summer Villa
Love for Love
FORE. What, would you be gadding too? Sure, all females are mad
to-day. It is of evil portent, and bodes mischief to the master of
a family. I remember an old prophecy written by Messahalah the
Arabian, and thus translated by a reverend Buckinghamshire bard:-
Love of Life
KEESH lived long ago on the rim of the polar sea, was head man of his village through many and prosperous years, and died full of honors with his name on the lips of men. So long ago did he live that only the old men remember his name, his name and the tale, which they got from the old men before them, and which the old men to come will tell to their children and their children's children down to the end of time.
Love-Songs of Childhood
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,/Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!/Mighty glad I ain't a girl - ruther be a boy,/Without them sashes, curls, an' things that's worn by Fauntleroy!/Love to chawnk green apples an' go swimmin' in the lake -/--by Eugene Field
Lyrical Ballads
Listen, listen, oh Wedding Guest, the Mariner doesn't have any commentary in place either. (Includes poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth).
Lysis
Ah, Hippothales, I said; what a noble and really perfect love you have found! I wish that you would favour me with the exhibition which you have been making to the rest of the company, and then I shall be able to judge whether you know what a lover ought to say about his love, either to the youth himself, or to others.
Lysistrata
What if all the women refused to... sure that wouldn't make men angrier?
Mac Flecknoe and Other Poems
Gratuitous recounting of how Shadwell responded to Dryden's opus: Johnnie D. got beat up by some toughs.
Macbeth
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
Madam How and Lady Why
How do I know all that? Because a fairy told it me; a fairy who lives up here upon the moor, and indeed in most places else, if people have but eyes to see her. What is her name? I cannot tell. The best name that I can give her (and I think it must be something like her real name, because she will always answer if you call her by it patiently and reverently) is Madam How. --by Charles Kingsley
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert's tale of adultery and destruction.
Madame Firmiani
The brightest memories of the old man faded at the sight of his nephew's so-called mistress. His
anger died away at the gracious exclamation which came from his lips as he looked at her. By one
of those fortunate accidents which happen only to pretty women, it was a moment when all her
beauties shone with peculiar lustre, due perhaps to the wax-lights
Maddened by Mystery and Other Stories
"Sir," said the young man in intense excitement, "a mystery has been committed!"
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
This one or Sister Carrie, by Dreiser? Well, if brevity is the soul of wit (Just kidding. I like Dreiser too...)
Maid Marian
The baron was inflexible in his resolution not to let Matilda leave the castle. The letter, which announced to
her the approaching fate of young Gamwell, filled her with grief, and increased the irksomeness of a privation
which already preyed sufficiently on her spirits, and began to undermine her health. She had no longer the
consolation of the society of her old friend Father Michael
Main Street
The town is, in our tale, called Gopher Prairie,' Minnesota. But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina Hills...
Main Street and Other Poems
I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea,/But it isn't half so fine a sight as Main Street used to be/When it all was covered over with a couple of feet of snow,/And over the crisp and radiant road the ringing sleighs would go.
Maitre Cornelius
In short, sire, I found myself this
morning robbed of those jewels you admired so much. They have been ravished from me, sire! To
steal the jewels of the Elector of Bavaria! those scoundrels respect nothing! they'll steal your kingdom
if you don't take care. As soon as I missed the jewels I went up to the room of that apprentice, who is,
assuredly, a past-master in thieving. This time we don't lack proof.
Maiwa's Revenge, or The War of the Little Hand
About four o'clock, however, Gobo woke me up, and told me that the head man
of one of Wambe's kraals had arrived to see me. I ordered him to be brought up, and presently he came, a
little, wizened, talkative old man, with a waistcloth round his middle, and a greasy, frayed kaross made of the
skins of rock rabbits over his shoulders.
MAJOR BARBARA
LADY BRITOMART. Charles Lomax's exertions are much more likely to decrease his income than to increase it. Sarah will have to find at least another £800 a year for the next ten years; and even then they will be as poor as church mice. And what about Barbara? I thought Barbara was going to make the most brilliant career of all of you. And what does she do? Joins the Salvation Army; discharges her maid; lives on a pound a week
Major Battles of Alexander's Asian Campaign
The remaining multitude of
Darius's light-armed and heavy-armed infantry was marshalled by nations to an unserviceable
depth and placed behind the Grecian mercenaries and the Persian army arranged in phalanx. The
whole of the army with Darius was said to number about 600,000 fighting men.
MALMORDO
Looking about at the waiters, Harry saw that they had already adopted the same notion. They were not only gunless, some of them had peeled away their skull-hoods to reveal their faces. A few looked tough, but most of them appeared to be scared. This left Harry wondering as to how many had been in on the gun work.
Malvina of Brittany
Malvina appears to have been interested in watching what she probably regarded as some novel breed of dragon being nourished from tins extricated from under her feet, but to have accepted this, together with all other details of the flight, as in the natural scheme of things. The monster refreshed, tugged, spurned the ground, and rose again with a roar; and the creeping sea rushed down.
Man a Machine
Of the two alternatives, only one is possible: either everything is illusion, nature as well as revelation, or experience alone can explain faith. But what can be more ridiculous than the position of our author! Can one imagine hearing a Peripatetic say,
We ought not to accept the experiments of Torricelli, for if we should accept them, if we should rid ourselves of the horror of the void, what an astonishing philosophy we should have!''--by Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Man and Wife
In three months from the memorable day when his solicitor had informed him that he was a free man, Mr. Vanborough possessed the wife he desired, to grace the head of his table and to push his fortunes in the world--the Legislature of Great Britain being the humble servant of his treachery, and the respectable accomplice of his crime.
Manalive
All next day at Beacon House there was a crazy sense that it was everybody's birthday. It is the fashion to talk of institutions as cold and cramping things. The truth is that when people are in exceptionally high spirits, really wild with freedom and invention, they always must, and they always do, create institutions
Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
To one great fact do all the most ancient epochs of history bear witness: one and all, they prove the existence in a yet more remote past of an already advanced civilization such as could only have been gradually attained to after long and arduous groping. Who were the inaugurators of this civilization? Who ware the earliest inhabitants of the earth? To what biological conditions were they subject? --by The Marquis de Nadaillac
Mansfield Park
About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
Many Waters
"It's all right," he said; "it's perfectly safe, as far as the verdict goes; but--" he stopped and
frowned. It was evident that the plan did not please him. But for the once Amy did not consult
his pleasure. She had her own views; and she did actually invite a party of old friends to dine with
them on the evening when it was expected that the verdict would be given.-- by Margaret Deland
Marco Millions
All these Mahometan figures remain motionless. Only their eyes move, staring fixedly but indifferently at the POLOS, who are standing at center. Marco is carrying in each hand bags which curiously resemble modern sample cases. He sets these down and gazes around with a bewildered awe.--by Eugene O'Neill
Margaret Ogilvy
Well, with break of day she wakes and sits up in bed and is standing in the middle of the room. So nimble was
she in the mornings (one of our troubles with her) that these three actions must be considered as one; she is
on the floor before you have time to count them. She has strict orders not to rise until her fire is lit, and having
broken them there is a demure elation on her face. --tribute to author's mom.
Marie
Another Haggard Fave.
Marm Lisa
Such was not the case, however. After luncheon, Marm Lisa had washed the twins' hands and faces in
the back-yard as usual, and left them for an instant to get a towel from the kitchen. When she returned,
she looked blankly about, for there was no sign of the two dripping faces and the uplifted streaming
hands. They had a playful habit of hiding from her, knowing that in no other way could they make her
so unhappy
Marquise de Brinvilliers, Vaninka, Marquise de Ganges
Gregory sighed heavily, threw a last look up at the window, and seeing that everything remained the same there, he mustered up
resolution enough to lie down on the fatal plank. At the same time two other serfs, chosen by Ivan for assistants, took him by
the arms and attached his wrists to two stakes, one at either side of him, so that it appeared as though he were stretched on a
cross. Then they clamped his neck into an iron collar
Martin Eden
He awoke next morning from rosy scenes of dream to a steamy atmosphere that smelled of soapsuds and dirty clothes, and that was vibrant with the jar and jangle of tormented life. As he came out of his room he heard the slosh of water, a sharp exclamation, and a resounding smack as his sister visited her irritation upon one of her numerous progeny. The squall of the child went through him like a knife.
Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger
I was thoroughly ripe for mischief of any kind; my scare had driven away all desire for sleep. I looked at the window, wondering if it would be best to go down my ladder again, to get the ladder in the garden. I was about to do thus, when I remembered the planks in the box-room. How splendid it would be, I thought, if I could get a couple of those long planks across the lane as a sort of bridge. --by John Masefield
Mary Barton
Sure, it was the basis for a Julia Roberts movie. But that's hardly Gaskell's fault. Masterpiece of Manchester.
Mary Stuart
A week after the events we have related, as nine o'clock in the evening had just sounded from the castle bell,
and the queen and Mary Seyton were sitting at a table where they were working at their tapestry, a stone
thrown from the courtyard passed through the window bars, broke a pane of glass, and fell into the room. The
queen's first idea was to believe it accidental or an insult;
Massacres of the South
Some of the faithful being disturbed in their meditations, came out of the church and
chastised the little Huguenots, whose parents considered themselves in consequence to have been insulted in
the persons of their children. A great commotion ensued, crowds began to form, and cries of "To the church! to
the church!" were heard. Captain Bouillargues happened to be in the neighbourhood, and being very methodical
set about organising the insurrection
Massimilla Doni
This was an untenable position. Cataneo, who only looked for a duchess, thought himself ridiculous as a
husband; and, when Massimilla complained of this indifference, he calmly bid her look about her for a
cavaliere servente, even offering his services to introduce to her some youths from whom to choose. The
Duchess wept; the Duke made his bow.
MASTER AND MAN
Meanwhile Vasili Andreevich, with his feet and the ends of the reins, urged the horse on in the direction in which for some reason he expected the forest and forester's hut to be. The snow covered his eyes and the wind seemed intent on stopping him, but bending forward and constantly lapping his coat over and pushing it between himself and the cold harness pad which prevented him from sitting properly, he kept urging the horse on.
Master Humphrey's Clock
I am not a churlish old man. Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. But for many years I have led a lonely, solitary life; - what wound I sought to heal, what sorrow to forget, originally, matters not now; it is sufficient that retirement has become a habit with me, and that I am unwilling to break the spell which for so long a time has shed its quiet influence upon my home and heart.
MASTER OF DEATH
Coming directly toward him was one of the oddest men whom he had ever seen. This individual was short and stocky; his clothes were plain, He had the heavy hands of a brute; his face was coarse, and the most conspicuous feature was a heavy, protruding jaw that bore pocklike scars.
MASTER OF DEATH
Cardona looked carefully about him, to study the situation before he proceeded. He drew a blackjack from his pocket, and dealt a vicious blow against the panel of the door, just above the knob. He repeated the action. The panel cracked; then broke. Cardona thrust his hand through the opening, drew the bolt, and swung the door inward. He held out a restraining hand as the others crowded forward.
MASTER OF FLAME
Suddenly, a whisper of sibilant mirth became audible. There was power and challenge in that mocking burst of laughter. As it died, a blue light glowed. It was a small light, but very powerful. It threw a brilliant oval on the polished top of a desk.
MASTERS OF DEATH
Allard's face was closer to the window. His eyes showed a keen flash; the hawklike expression of his features was traceable, though it differed remarkably from Cranston's masklike visage. Night had come again, the third night since Cranston's disappearance. The Shadow's period of waiting was at an end.
Mauprat
You live not very far from Roche-Mauprat, and must have often passed by the ruins. Thus there is no need for me to describe them...
Mazelli, and Other Poems
He stood where the mountain moss outspread/ Its smoothness beneath his dusky foot;/The chestnut boughs above his head,/ Hung motionless and mute./There came not a voice from the wooded hill,/ Nor a sound from the shadowy glen,/Save the plaintive song of the whip-poor-will,--by George W. Sands
McTeague
Where that cliched Death-Valley-handcuffed-to-a-dead-man thing comes from. By Frank Norris.
Medea
By Euripides. Breaking up is hard to do.
MEDICAL ESSAYS
This paper was written in a great heat and with passionate indignation. If I touched it at all I might trim its rhetorical exuberance, but I prefer to leave it all its original strength of expression. I could not, if I had tried, have disguised the feelings with which I regarded the attempt to put out of sight the frightful facts which I brought forward and the necessary conclusions to which they led.
Meditations
By Marcus Aurelius. Take it like a man.
Melmoth Reconciled
Wherefore, that race of corsairs whom we dignify with the title of bankers, the gentry who take out a
license for which they pay a thousand crowns, as the privateer takes out his letters of marque, hold these
rare products of the incubations of virtue in such esteem that they confine them in cages in their
counting-houses, much as governments procure and maintain specimens of strange beasts
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
BUT it is now time to see Jenkin at his life's work. I have before me certain imperfect series of
letters written, as he says, 'at hazard, for one does not know at the time what is important and
what is not': the earlier addressed to Miss Austin, after the betrothal; the later to Mrs. Jenkin
the young wife.
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
Unfinished work, considered his best.
Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
Those who go about on the Riva always expect four times the value for anything, for they are the falsest knaves that live there. No one expects to get an honest service of them. For that reason some good people warned me to be on my guard against them. They told me that they cheat both man and beast, and that you could buy better things for less money at Frankfort than at Venice. --by Albrecht Durer
Memoirs of Popular Delusions, Vol. One
Vol. 1 of Charles Macky's dissection of tulip bulbs and other crazes.
Memoirs of Popular Delusions, Vol. Two
Continuation of Mackay's classic.
Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry--"Written by Herself"
For once the madcap girl got the better of the practised courtier. M. de Soubise, taken in his own snare, politely excused himself, and left me with an assurance that he would speak to the king. He did speak, but obtained nothing more than any other. You will see in my next letter that I did not arrive at the accomplishment of my wishes without much trouble. --by Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
Memories and Portraits
ALL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler; and
yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two
books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I
saw with appropriate words
Men of Invention and Industry
Industry puts an entirely new face upon the productions of nature. By labour man has subjugated the world, reduced it to his dominion, and clothed the earth with a new garment. The first rude plough that man thrust into the soil, the first rude axe of stone with which he felled the pine, the first rude canoe scooped by him from its trunk to cross the river and reach the greener fields beyond--by Samuel Smiles
Men, Women and Ghosts
Mr. Spruggins had been dining in the city,/Mr. Spruggins was none too steady in his gait,/And the wind played ball with Mr. Spruggins/And laughed as it whistled past him./It rolled him along the street,/With his little feet pit-a-patting on the flags of the sidewalk,
Menexenus
SOCRATES: O Menexenus! Death in battle is certainly in many respects a noble thing. The dead man gets a fine and costly funeral, although he may have been poor, and an elaborate speech is made over him by a wise man who has long ago prepared what he has to say, although he who is praised may not have been good for much. The speakers praise him for what he has done and for what he has not done
Meno
MENO: Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor by practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way?
Messer Marco Polo
"But the scholars are a queer and blind people, Brian Oge. I've heard tell there's a doctor in Spain can weigh
the earth. But he can't plow a furrow that is needful, for planting corn. The scholars can tell how many are the
feathers in a bird's wing, but it takes me to inform the doctors why the call comes to them, and they fly over
oceans without compass or sextant or sight of land. --by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
Metamorphoses
A wild romp. -- by Ovid
Metaphysics
How it is up there.
METEOROLOGY
These four bodies are fire, air, water, earth. Fire occupies the highest place among them all, earth the lowest, and two elements correspond to these in their relation to one another, air being nearest to fire, water to earth. The whole world surrounding the earth, then, the affections of which are our subject, is made up of these bodies.
Michael
Though there was nothing visibly graceful about Michael Comber, he apparently had the art of giving gracefully. He had already told his cousin Francis, who sat on the arm of the sofa by his table, that there was no earthly excuse for his having run into debt; but now when the moment came for giving, he wrote the cheque quickly and eagerly, as if thoroughly enjoying it, and passed it over to him with a smile that was extraordinarily pleasant.--by E.F. Benson
Michael Howe: The Last and Worst of the Bush-Rangers of Van Diemen's Land
A party of the 46th Regt. was immediately
despatched who surrounded the place of their concealment and captured both. Burne was the
most aged of the gang, and was severely wounded in endeavouring to escape from the party. They
were brought before a General Court Martial, charged with being two of the banditti who murdered
the unfortunate Carlisle, were convicted and received sentence of death.--by Thomas E. Wells
Michael Robartes and The Dancer
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it/Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds./The darkness drops again; but now I know/That twenty centuries of stony sleep/Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,/And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Michael Strogoff
Michael Strogoff was a man who feared neither frost nor snow. He would have preferred traveling during
the severe winter season, in order that he might perform the whole distance by sleighs. At that period of
the year the difficulties which all other means of locomotion present are greatly diminished, the wide
steppes being leveled by snow
Michael, Brother of Jerry
Michael possessed no trace of hysteria, though he was more temperamentally excitable and explosive than his blood-brother Jerry, while his father and mother were a sedate old couple indeed compared with him. Far more than mature Jerry, was mature Michael playful and rowdyish. His ebullient spirits were always on tap to spill over on the slightest provocation, and, as he was afterwards to demonstrate, he could weary a puppy with play.
Middlemarch
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters
Milan and Mantua
I had felt interested in the young Frenchwoman when she was hiding under the bed-clothes: she had taken my fancy the moment she had shewn her features, and still more when I had seen her dressed. She completed her conquest at the dinner-table by the display of a wit which I greatly admired. It is rare in Italy, and seems to belong generally to the daughters of France.
Military Career
A short time afterwards, Madame F---- whispered a few words to the general, who turned to me and said that he would be glad to hear me relate what had occurred to me in Constantinople with the wife of the Turk Yusuf, and at another friend's house, where I had been seen bathing by moonlight. I was rather surprised at such an invitation, and told him that such frolics were not worth listening to
Miss Billie's Decision
Billy turned and cast searching eyes about the
room--Billy always kept shawls everywhere for Aunt Hannah's shoulders and feet. Bertram had been known to
say, indeed, that a room, according to Aunt Hannah, was not fully furnished unless it contained from one to
four shawls, assorted as to size and warmth.
Miss Billy
By breakfast time Bertram with the avowed intention of giving "the little chap half a show," had the room cleared for action; and after that the whole house was called upon for contributions toward the room's adornment. And most generously did most of the house respond. Even Dong Ling slippered up-stairs and presented a weird Chinese banner which he said he was "velly much glad" to give. --by Eleanor H. Porter
Miss or Mrs.?
"Now for the Law of Clandestine Marriage!" said Lady Winwood. "Mr. Linzie, we will take it sitting." She led the way to one of the benches in the garden, and placed Launce between Natalie and herself. "Well, Chief Conspirator, have you got the License? No? Does it cost too much? Can I lend you the money?"
Mistress Wilding
Not what some people seem to think based on the title.
Moby Dick: Or, The Whale
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
Modern Fiction
When we praise our recent fiction for its photographic fidelity to nature we condemn it, for we deny to it the art which would give it value. We forget that the creation of the novel should be, to a certain extent, a synthetic process, and impart to human actions that ideal quality which we demand in painting. Heine regards Cervantes as the originator of the modern novel.
Modeste Mignon
This young man with a livid face--a blonde of the type with black eyes, whose immovable glance
has an indescribable fascination, sober in speech as in conduct, dressed in black, lean as a
consumptive, but nevertheless vigorously framed--visited the family of his former master and
the house of his cashier less from affection than from self-interest.
Moments of Vision
There floated the sounds of church-chiming,/But no one was nigh,/Till there came, as a break in the loneness,/Her father, she, I./And we slowly moved on to the wicket,/And downlooking stood,/Till anon people passed, and amid them/We parted for good.--by Thomas Hardy
MONDAY OR TUESDAY
SUCH AN EXPRESSION of unhappiness was enough by itself to make one's eyes slide above the paper's edge to the poor woman's face? insignificant without that look, almost a symbol of human destiny with it. Life's what you see in people's eyes; life's what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it, cease to be aware of? what? That life's like that, it seems.--by Virginia Woolf
Monsieur Beaucaire
"Oh, no, no, no!" The Frenchman laughed. "'Tis not that. Am I not already one of these 'men of fashion'? I lack only the reputation of birth. Monsieur is goin' supply that. Ha, ha! I shall be noble from to-night. 'Victor,' the artis', is condemn' to death; his throat shall be cut with his own razor.
Montezuma's Daughter
Cuitlahua was crowned Emperor of the Aztecs in succession to his brother Montezuma, while I lay sick with the wound given me by the sword of de Garcia, and also with that which I had received on the altar of sacrifice. This hurt had found no time to heal,
Moon of Israel
"Life! Blood! Strength!" echoed everyone in the great hall, falling to their knees and bending their foreheads to
the ground. Even the Prince and the aged Bakenkhonsu prostrated themselves thus as though before the
presence of a god. And, indeed, Pharaoh Meneptah, passing through the patch of sunlight at the head of the
hall, wearing the double crown upon his head
Moon-Face and Other Stories
WADE ATSHELER is dead--dead by his own hand. To say that this was entirely unexpected by the small coterie which knew him, would be to say an untruth; and yet never once had we, his intimates, ever canvassed the idea.
Morning Star
They swore that it could not be true, for would this high lady, the anointed Pharaoh of
Egypt, take her father's murderer, and her own uncle to husband? Would she not rather die in her prison tower
on which night by night they had seen her stand and sing? In their hearts they thought that she should die, for
thus they had summed her up
Mother
. It was for this reason that we all yearned in our middle-aged way for the tale of love which we expected from young Richard. He, on his part, repeated the hope that by the time his turn to tell a story was reached we should be tired of stories and prefer to spend the evening at the card tables or in the music room.
MOTHER GOOSE MURDERS
This brain used a compact organization, and at first the man assigned to actual robbery had been Lee Quade. Bold, daring and speedy, Quade had whisked away a batch of bonds and a stack of jewels on two separate occasions, only to pass them along to other hands.
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica
Whatever came of the duel we are not informed; but it is to be presumed that it did not result fatally for young Bonaparte, for he lived many years after the incident, as most of our readers are probably aware. Had he not done so, this biography would have had to stop here, and countless readers of our own day would have been deprived of much entertaining fiction --by John Kendrick Bangs
Mr. Froude's Progress
There are two sorts of infidelity concerning humanity, and I do not know which is the more withering in its effects. One is that which regards this world as only a waste and a desert, across the sands of which we are merely fugitives, fleeing from the wrath to come. The other is that doubt of any divine intention in development, in history, which we call progress from age to age.
Mr. Standfast
I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car
following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through
great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was
worried and mystified; but the cool twilight of the third stage calmed and heartened me
Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies
How it came about Mr. Korner was never able to fully satisfy himself. Mr. Korner was not the type that serves the purpose of the temperance lecturer. His "first glass" he had drunk more years ago than he could recollect, and since had tasted the varied contents of many others. But never before had Mr. Korner exceeded, nor been tempted to exceed, the limits of his favourite virtue, moderation.
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
Ah! It's pleasant to drop into my own easy-chair my dear though a little palpitating what with trotting up-stairs and what with trotting down, and why kitchen stairs should all be corner stairs is for the builders to justify though I do not think they fully understand their trade and never did, else why the sameness and why not more conveniences and fewer draughts and likewise making a practice of laying the plaster on too thick
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn't a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity, but it comes natural to me in my own little room, when wishing to open my mind to those that I can trust, and I should be truly thankful if they were all mankind, but such is not so, for have but a Furnished bill in the window and your watch on the mantelpiece
Mrs. Warren's Profession
PRAED. Well, in making you too conventional. You know, my dear Miss Warren, I am a born anarchist. I hate authority. It spoils the relations between parent and child; even between mother and daughter. Now I was always afraid that your mother would strain her authority to make you very conventional. It's such a relief to find that she hasnt.
Much Ado About Nothing
Content yourself. God knows I lov'd my niece;/And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains,/That dare as well answer a man indeed/As I dare take a serpent by the tongue./Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!
Mudfog and Other Sketches
Mudfog is a pleasant town - a remarkably pleasant town - situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agreeable scent of pitch, tar, coals, and rope- yarn, a roving population in oilskin hats, a pretty steady influx of drunken bargemen, and a great many other maritime advantages. There is a good deal of water about Mudfog, and yet it is not exactly the sort of town for a watering-place, either.
Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales
It is well known that the grand seignior amuses himself by going at night, in disguise, through streets of
Constantinople; as the caliph Haroun Alraschid used formerly to do in Bagdad.
-- Maria Edgeworth
MURDER BY MAGIC
The late editions of the Sunday morning newspapers carried a small item about the death of Louie the Grift, but the details were meager. Nevertheless, Demo Sharpe took great pains to show the story to Pete Noland as they sat in Demo's apartment along about the middle of the afternoon.
MURDER BY MOONLIGHT
Anything resembling murder seemed far removed from the placid area of Hilldale. How long that lull would last was a problem even for The Shadow, now a resident in Beaverwood, the place which rated as the storm center of unsolved crime!
MURDER EVERY HOUR
Halfway between table and door lay Jeremy Lentz, dead. The inventor had apparently slumped forward; then rolled upon his back. There was no doubt as to the cause of Lentz's death. He had been slain by a gunshot.
MURDER GENIUS
Clyde's last statement was a cool falsehood. The Bermuda police knew nothing of Paxton's murder. His body had not been washed ashore. There had been no news cable. Clyde's knowledge of a shrewdly concealed crime came to him from Burbank, the contact man of The Shadow's organization.
MURDER LAKE
DUSK was deep when the limited pulled into Redland Junction and came to a chugging stop. Immediately, trainmen began to disconnect certain cars in order to attach them to the waiting local. This was a special switch job involving two baggage cars at the head of the train along with a coach and Pullman at the rear.
MURDER MANSION
Perhaps the pressure of the gun was keeping her on tiptoe. At least, her slippers didn't clatter as she had feared. On the steps, it became even easier. Going up was a silent process, particularly when life depended upon it. That life did depend on such a threat was evidenced by the whisper close to Gail's ear.
My Antonia
Cuzak sat down behind the stove and watched his womenfolk and the little children with equal amusement. He
thought they were nice, and he thought they were funny, evidently. He had been off dancing with the girls and
forgetting that he was an old fellow, and now his family rather surprised him; he seemed to think it a joke that all
these children should belong to him.
My Favorite Murder
HAVING murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put upon my trial, which lasted seven years. In charging the jury, the judge of the Court of Acquittal remarked that it was one of the most ghastly crimes that he had ever been called upon to explain away.
My Lady's Money
He suggested waiting a little before any reply was sent to Paris; and he engaged meanwhile to consult a London solicitor who had great experience in cases of theft, and whose advice might enable them to dispense entirely with the services of the French police.
My Literary Passions
Very likely the reading of Ossian had something to do with my morbid anxieties. I had read Byron's imitation of him before that, and admired it prodigiously, and when my father got me the book--as usual I did not know where or how he got it--not all the tall forms that moved before the eyes of haunted bards in the dusky vale of autumn could have kept me from it.--by William Dean Howells
My Summer in a Garden
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild-oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods.
Myths and Myth-Makers
FEW mediaeval heroes are so widely known as William Tell. His exploits have been celebrated by one of the greatest poets and one of the most popular musicians of modern times. They are doubtless familiar to many who have never heard of Stauffacher or Winkelried, who are quite ignorant of the prowess of Roland, and to whom Arthur and Lancelot, nay, even Charlemagne, are but empty names. -- by John Fiske
