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"Whir, whir, whir," sounded the swish of many silken wings. The swallows had arrived from the South; thousands of them there were, long winged and dusky brown, with faintly russet breasts. So full of joyous bustle they were over their arrival, "cheep, cheep, cheeping," making a great clamour as they separated ...
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My brother Frank is a most practical boy. I may be prejudiced, but it seems to me somehow there\'s nothing like close personal contact with active volcanoes to teach a young fellow prudence, coolness, and adaptability to circumstances. \"Tom,\" said he to me, as we stood and watched the queer party on deck, devouring taro-paste as a Ne...
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That portion of Cumberland and Westmorland, which is popularly known as the Lake District, is the holiday ground of a great number of persons who delight in its splendid scenery of mountain, wood and lake, who enjoy roaming on foot over its uplands, climbing its peaks, driving in motor or charabanc along its sinuous valleys, rowing or ...
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At two o'clock in the morning during the month of August sounds of music could be heard proceeding from a brilliantly lighted house in Park Lane, where a ball was being given by the Countess of Kerstoke. True, the season was long since over, and though the greater part of London Society had migrated swallow-like to the South of Europe ...
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The author desires to acknowledge the courtesy of Messrs T. H. Parker Brothers of Whitcomb Street, W.C., for allowing him to reproduce the illustrations mentioned on many of the pages of this book; as also the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company for permission to reproduce the old painting of the Swallow.
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Category： Author：D. H. Lawrence劳伦斯
Lawrence (1885-1930) is the twentieth century Britain's most unique and one of the most controversial writers. He was born in Nottingham, a miner family twenty-one years old when studying at the university of Nottingham, lifetime wrote more than forty novels, poetry, travel and works. "Rainbow" (1915) as one of the most famous work, La...
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“What! no music, no dancing at Castle Hermitage to-night; and all the ladies sitting in a formal circle, petrifying into perfect statues?” cried Sir Ulick O’Shane as he entered the drawing-room, between ten and eleven o’clock at night, accompanied by what he called his rear-guard, veterans of the old school of good fellows, who at thos...
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《The Mill on the Floss》Is George Eliot's second epic novel, is the strongest elliott autobiographical novel. Tells the story of the mill near SAN auge town miller dooley, lawsuits arising from debt, losing after the bankruptcy of the children, Tom and maggie significant changes have taken place in life. After several years of efforts...
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IT is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed to be able to go through this world with her eyes shut, and her mouth open wide enough to swallow Jonah and the Garden of Eden without making a wry face. It is usually recounted as one of her mo...
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Category： Author：H. Rider Haggard
“Our natures languish incomplete; Something obtuse in this our star Shackles the spirit’s winged feet; But a glory moves us from afar, And we know that we are strong and fleet.” Edmund Ollier. “Once more I behold the face of her Whose actions all had the character Of an inexpressible charm, expressed; Whose movements flowed fr...
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