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Category: Author:Bret Harte布勒特·哈特
The Crusade of the Excelsior First published in 1887 Subjects Social life and customs , Western stories , Fiction , Classic Literature Places California Edit
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Category: Author:Bret Harte布勒特·哈特
The Crusade of the Excelsior First published in 1887 Subjects Social life and customs , Western stories , Fiction , Classic Literature Places California Edit
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
At first there were few things, apparently, that did seem to his infant mind desirable, for his earliest days were marked by a sort of chronic crossness that seemed quite unaccountable in one so healthy; but this was eventually traced to the influence of pins injudiciously disposed about the person by nurse.
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It was a dull evening in the month of September, 1728. The apprentices had closed and barred the shutters and the day's work was over. Supper was laid in the long room over the shop, the viands were on the table, and round it were standing Bailie Anderson and his wife, his foreman John Gillespie, and his two apprentices. The latt...
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Category: Author:novel
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Category: Author:novel
IN THAT part of the celebrated parish of St. George which is bounded on one side by Piccadilly and on the other by Curzon Street, is a district of a peculiar character. ’Tis cluster of small streets of little houses, frequently intersected by mews, which here are numerous, and sometimes gradually, rather than abruptly, terminating in a...
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