Girls of the Forest
Category: Author:L. T. Meade
It was a beautiful summer’s afternoon, and the girls were seated in a circle on the lawn in front of the house.
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Category: Author:L. T. Meade
It was a beautiful summer’s afternoon, and the girls were seated in a circle on the lawn in front of the house.
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Category: Author:Eleanor H. Porter
The story is mainly a narration of a vacation which these six young girls spend in Texas at the 'Six Star Ranch, ' at the invitation of Mr. Hartley, its owner.
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Category: Author:Lester del Rey
The air of the city's cheapest flophouse was thick with the smells of harsh antiseptic and unwashed bodies. The early Christmas snowstorm had driven in every bum who could steal or beg the price of admission, and the long rows of cots were filled with fully clothed figures. Those who could afford the extra dime were huddled under thin...
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Category: Author:Hildegarde Hawthorne
Inside this world in which we live there is another world, a very wonderful world, that is ours for the taking. Many things in the world we live in every day are denied to us. Maybe for the reason that we cannot possibly learn how to make use of them all, even though we think we want them very much. Lots of us can never hunt lions in ...
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Category: Author:Stephen Crane史蒂芬·克莱恩
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
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Category: Author:novel
Being Boston girls, of course they got up a club for mental improvement, and, as they were all descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, they called it the Mayflower Club. A very good name, and the six young girls who were members of it made a very pretty posy when they met together, once a week, to sew, and read well-chosen books. At ...
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Category: Author:novel
Up until the moment when he first looked into Hippolyte Adolphe Taine's History of English Literature, Herbert Quidley's penchant for old books had netted him nothing in the way of romance and intrigue. Not that he was a stranger to either.
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Category: Author:novel
“I don’t know much about your Aunt Emma, Burd, but I am quite certain I shall adore her.” Burd Alling, pudgy and good-natured, looked at Amy Drew and slowly grinned.
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Category: Author:novel
Is there any sensation equal to that produced by the first lover and the first proposal coming to a girl in a large family of girls? It is delightfully sentimental, comical, complimentary, affronting, rousing, tiresome—all in one. It is a herald of lovers, proposals, and wonderful changes all round. It is the first thrill of real life ...
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