Search      Hot    Newest Novel
HOME > Search:kill 
THE FAITH OF MEN

Category: Author:Jack London杰克·伦敦 

"The Faith of Men" is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's adventure tales, all of them set in London's favorite milieu -- the Yukon Territory. "A Relic of the Pliocene" concerns a "homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced" hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

The Madman and the Pirate

Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne 

A missionary on a Polynesian island is marooned by pirates on another island far from his wife and flock. Thinking that the same pirates had killed his son he vows revenge.


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

The Headswoman

Category: Author:Kenneth Grahame 

A 1898 novel about a beautiful woman who seduces men in order to execute and kill them.


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Rainbow Valley

Category: Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery 

 It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a sly, jovial wind came piping down the red harbour road along which Miss Cornelia's comfortable, matronly figure was m...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Money-making men

Category: Author:novel 

I FEAR City people are very mercenary in their views and habits.  It is natural that they should be so; they come into the City to make money, and that is all they are thinking of while they are there.  They do not all succeed in their attempt, I know.  Some are idle and improvident, and do not deserve to win in the battle of life.  Th...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Peggy O'Neal

Category: Author:Alfred Henry Lewis 

Doubtless I shall tell this tale but poorly, since I have no skill of writing or rhetoric and must, for the most part, proceed by blunt sentences and short one-syllable words to the end that I be understood. 《Peggy O'Neal》


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Fighting the Whales

Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne 

 There are few things in this world that have filled me with so much astonishment as the fact that man can kill a whale! That a fish, more than sixty feet long, and thirty feet round the body; with the bulk of three hundred fat oxen rolled into one; with the strength of many hundreds of horses; able to swim at a rate that would ca...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

The Flying Girl

Category: Author:novel 

The author wishes to acknowledge her indebtedness to Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss and Mr. Wilbur Wright for courtesies extended during the preparation of this manuscript. These skillful and clever aviators, pioneers to whom the Art of Flying owes a colossal debt, do not laugh at any suggestion concerning the future of the aëroplane, for they r...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

With Kitchener in the Soudan

Category: Author:novel 

 The reconquest of the Soudan will ever be mentioned as one of the most difficult, and at the same time the most successful, enterprises ever undertaken. The task of carrying an army hundreds of miles across a waterless desert; conveying it up a great river, bristling with obstacles; defeating an enormously superior force, unsurpa...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

The History of Court Fools

Category: Author:novel 

 In the days of old, it happened that all Olympus was dull, and Zeus complained, yawning the while, that there was not a fool amongst the gods, with wit enough to keep the divine assembly alive, or to kill the members of it with laughter.


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

All The Data From The Network AND User Upload, If Infringement, Please Contact Us To Delete! Contact Us
About Us | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Tag List | Recent Search  
©2010-2018 wenovel.com, All Rights Reserved