Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's
Category: Author:Laura Lee Hope
"There! It's all done, so I guess we can get on and start off! All aboard! Toot! Toot!" Russ Bunker made a noise like a steamboat whistle.
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Category: Author:Laura Lee Hope
"There! It's all done, so I guess we can get on and start off! All aboard! Toot! Toot!" Russ Bunker made a noise like a steamboat whistle.
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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:O.Henry
Inexorably Sam Galloway saddled his pony. He was going away from the Rancho Altito at the end of a three-months' visit. It is not to be expected that a guest should put up with wheat coffee and biscuits yellow-streaked with saleratus for longer than that.
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
Dear Periwinkle,—Since that memorable, not to say miserable, day, when you and I parted at Saint Katherine’s Docks, (see note 1), with the rain streaming from our respective noses—rendering tears superfluous, if not impossible—and the noise of preparation for departure damaging the fervour of our “farewell”—since that day, I have ploug...
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Category: Author:novel
"I am going to offer to the publick the Translation of a work, which, for wisdom and force, is in higher fame and consideration, than almost any other that has yet appeared amongst men:" it is in this way, that Thomas Gordon begins The Discourses, which he has inserted into his rendering of Tacitus; and I can find none ...
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Category: Author:novel
In the following pages I have endeavored to sketch, in rather bold outlines, the story of Texas. It is a story of knightly romance which calls the poet even as, in earlier days, the Land of the Tehas called across its borders the dreamers of dreams.
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Category: Author:novel
I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary. Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which...
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Category: Author:novel
In nothing else under the latter-day sun-not even in the mysterious department of woman’s attire-has Fashion been more variable, or more eccentric in its variations, than in the matter of prefaces. The eternal revolution of letters devours its own children so rapidly that for the hardiest of them ten years count as a generation; each s...
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Category: Author:novel
The author of the following narrative is a leader in the Russian revolutionary movement. The German transliteration of his name is given here as being the form he himself uses in Western Europe; but he is called “Deuc” in the English version of Stepniak’s Underground Russia, which was translated from the Italian, retaining the Italian ...
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Category: Author:Stewart Edward White
1912. Mystery by the American author. Contents: The Owner of New York; The Shadow of Mystery; The Moving Finger Writes; Darkness and Panic; A Scientist in Pink Silk; The Wrath to Come; A World of Ghosts; Percy Darrow's Theory; The Great Silence; The Lifting of the Spell; Thirty Seconds More; The Unknown; Darrow's Challenge; The Fear ...
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