JoeyLLM/Project_Gutenberg_Australia · Datasets at Hugging Face

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"No, I don't blame you, but you've made a hell of a mess of everything by not playing up to me ever so little." He could not be cruel now. He knew that the action he outlined had been beyond Aileen's timorous nature. His gorge rose against the ogres who had surrounded her. He would gladly have strangled both Larrys, an...	[ 39522, 11, 358, 1541, 956, 19065, 499, 11, 719, 499, 3077, 1903, 264, 15123, 315, 264, 9622, 315, 4395, 555, 539, 5737, 709, 311, 757, 3596, 779, 2697, 1210, 1283, 1436, 539, 387, 28128, 1457, 13, 1283, 7020, 430, 279, 1957, 568, 33...
"Of my two sisters, Lillian and Agnes, Lillian, the younger, was recently married at the time but already involved in divorce proceedings which were to ruin her life. My brother-in-law, the respondent, was a man of magnificent physique and great administrative ability, employed in the Civil Service of the Dominion. B...	[ 1, 2173, 856, 1403, 30393, 11, 445, 65821, 323, 4701, 4978, 11, 445, 65821, 11, 279, 14992, 11, 574, 6051, 12502, 520, 279, 892, 719, 2736, 6532, 304, 25549, 29407, 902, 1051, 311, 38339, 1077, 2324, 13, 220, 3092, 10868, 3502, 31412,...
In conversation with the commuter neighbor, who every evening walked about and smoked an after-dinner cigar in the yard at the right, John was frank about the whole lamentable business of his brother's defalcation. He wondered, he said, if he had not shut himself up with his studies too much, and neglected his brother...	[ 644, 10652, 449, 279, 89103, 9760, 11, 889, 1475, 11714, 15203, 922, 323, 48637, 459, 1306, 1773, 4481, 54774, 304, 279, 20085, 520, 279, 1314, 11, 3842, 574, 26875, 922, 279, 4459, 51472, 481, 2626, 315, 813, 10868, 596, 711, 17356, ...
'Comrades!' cried an eager youthful voice. 'Attention, comrades! We have glorious news for you. We have won the battle for production! Returns now completed of the output of all classes of consumption goods show that the standard of living has risen by no less than 20 per cent over the past year. All over Oceania this ...	[ 6, 1110, 60635, 32483, 39169, 459, 24450, 65655, 7899, 13, 364, 70429, 11, 67128, 0, 1226, 617, 44308, 3754, 369, 499, 13, 1226, 617, 2834, 279, 8209, 369, 5788, 0, 5295, 1457, 8308, 315, 279, 2612, 315, 682, 6989, 315, 15652, 11822, ...
The centre of attraction outside was Mt. Gambler, with its wonderful Blue Lake and the underground river. One could sail a long distance down the subterranean stream, which flowed seawards through a great, cave-like channel. The Blue Lake, the banks of which were 300ft. high, almost sheer, and the water 240ft. deep in ...	[ 791, 12541, 315, 33464, 4994, 574, 36608, 13, 67889, 1565, 11, 449, 1202, 11364, 8868, 11940, 323, 279, 26326, 15140, 13, 3861, 1436, 30503, 264, 1317, 6138, 1523, 279, 1207, 69769, 33561, 4365, 11, 902, 85750, 67329, 2402, 1555, 264, 2...
Polly laughed with the rest at the time; but when she thought of it afterward, and wondered what her own mother would have said, if little Kitty had put such a question, she did n't find it cunning or funny, but ridiculous and unnatural. She felt so now about herself; and when her first petulance was over, resolved to ...	[ 47, 8788, 32627, 449, 279, 2800, 520, 279, 892, 26, 719, 994, 1364, 3463, 315, 433, 49043, 11, 323, 31156, 1148, 1077, 1866, 6691, 1053, 617, 1071, 11, 422, 2697, 67281, 1047, 2231, 1778, 264, 3488, 11, 1364, 1550, 308, 956, 1505, 4...
His place flourished above all others. He was far more industrious, and kept his garden in better order, and was always ready to help anywhere and everywhere; besides, he was so fearless, he was really a great acquisition to our new settlement. But one day I was called to see his wife, who lay nearly senseless, the blo...	[ 16366, 2035, 20415, 3384, 3485, 682, 3885, 13, 1283, 574, 3117, 810, 67965, 788, 11, 323, 8774, 813, 13863, 304, 2731, 2015, 11, 323, 574, 2744, 5644, 311, 1520, 12660, 323, 17277, 26, 28858, 11, 568, 574, 779, 93111, 11, 568, 574, ...
And I saw a good deal of Raffles just then; it was, in fact, the one period at which I can remember his coming round to see me more frequently than I went round to him. Of course he would come at his own odd hours, often just as one was dressing to go out and dine, and I can even remember finding him there when I retur...	[ 3112, 358, 5602, 264, 1695, 3568, 315, 432, 81635, 1120, 1243, 26, 433, 574, 11, 304, 2144, 11, 279, 832, 4261, 520, 902, 358, 649, 6227, 813, 5108, 4883, 311, 1518, 757, 810, 14134, 1109, 358, 4024, 4883, 311, 1461, 13, 5046, 3388,...
Last evening I had an odd talk with my father that needs recording. He came in wobbling a candle, in a bed-gown, his chest exposed, but in spite of this very sober. I have been dimly conscious of him the last months, coming in and out of my fantasies. And WHAT fantasies! Myself hanging, bare save for a thin shift, f...	[ 5966, 11714, 358, 1047, 459, 10535, 3137, 449, 856, 7126, 430, 3966, 14975, 13, 1283, 3782, 304, 289, 677, 9894, 264, 38899, 11, 304, 264, 4950, 2427, 785, 11, 813, 15489, 15246, 11, 719, 304, 34781, 315, 420, 1633, 50505, 13, 220, ...
"I have heard something of your mode of proceeding with the keepers of taverns and hostels, Sir Giles," the proud marquis said; "but this is the first occasion on which I have seen it put in practice,--and I am free to confess that you deal not over gently with them, if the present may be considered a specimen of your ...	[ 7189, 617, 6755, 2555, 315, 701, 3941, 315, 39547, 449, 279, 2567, 388, 315, 91235, 82, 323, 3552, 2053, 11, 17177, 85931, 1359, 279, 12691, 3678, 9383, 1071, 26, 330, 8248, 420, 374, 279, 1176, 13402, 389, 902, 358, 617, 3970, 433, ...
He treated with systematic negligence, the ettiquette that regulates the intercourse of persons of a certain class. He, every where, acted, in this respect, as if he were alone, or among familiar associates. The very appellations of Sir, and Madam, and Mister, were, in his apprehension, servile and ridiculous, and as c...	[ 1548, 12020, 449, 37538, 59357, 11, 279, 27822, 5118, 6672, 430, 80412, 279, 50540, 315, 11434, 315, 264, 3738, 538, 13, 1283, 11, 1475, 1405, 11, 31532, 11, 304, 420, 5201, 11, 439, 422, 568, 1051, 7636, 11, 477, 4315, 11537, 40531, ...
For this Christmas was to be for him unlike any other Christmas. It was not mere beef and beer. If it celebrated the birth of the carpenter who was to be crucified, the ever recurring martyrdom of man, it was also a new birth, a piece of symbolism, compassionate humanity gathered together and lighting Christmas candle...	[ 2520, 420, 10280, 574, 311, 387, 369, 1461, 20426, 904, 1023, 10280, 13, 1102, 574, 539, 17983, 25309, 323, 13179, 13, 220, 1442, 433, 28284, 279, 7342, 315, 279, 39739, 1992, 889, 574, 311, 387, 15131, 1908, 11, 279, 3596, 46350, 904...
"Be still, woman!" returned her husband, jerking the reins from her hand. "What think ye 'twould profit us to turn back to Salem village? I trow if there be one black beast here, there is a full herd of them there. There is naught left but to ride past it as best we may. Sit fast, an' listen you not to it, whatever it ...	[ 1, 3513, 2103, 11, 5333, 9135, 6052, 1077, 10177, 11, 21706, 10789, 279, 90518, 505, 1077, 1450, 13, 330, 3923, 1781, 20043, 364, 15930, 619, 11626, 603, 311, 2543, 1203, 311, 60481, 14458, 30, 358, 259, 654, 422, 1070, 387, 832, 3776...
But our spirits very seldom flagged, and we contrived to make the time pass somehow. Lucia, whose face and hands were now browning deeply from continuous exposure to the rays of a torrid sun worked with Niâbon at dressmaking, for she had brought with her half a dozen bolts of print; and, as they sewed, they would somet...	[ 4071, 1057, 31739, 1633, 56452, 62309, 11, 323, 584, 6155, 2270, 311, 1304, 279, 892, 1522, 17354, 13, 80274, 11, 6832, 3663, 323, 6206, 1051, 1457, 293, 51520, 17693, 505, 19815, 14675, 311, 279, 45220, 315, 264, 5801, 1907, 7160, 6575...
Now begins a new phase in his career. He had been the Bohemian, the strolling player, the bon camarado of bully-rooks and swindlers. He would take a new line of action. He would be the gentleman, the gamester, the man of fashion. He sailed in the "Dorset" yacht (which had on board the Duke of Leinster), and there he ma...	[ 7184, 12302, 264, 502, 10474, 304, 813, 7076, 13, 1283, 1047, 1027, 279, 52450, 336, 1122, 11, 279, 357, 16608, 2851, 11, 279, 7970, 97686, 2172, 315, 64176, 53034, 35322, 323, 2064, 485, 9438, 13, 1283, 1053, 1935, 264, 502, 1584, 31...
"I gave you the other day," concluded Betty, "the symbol of a wheel, and the hub of the wheel is truth, and the spokes of the wheel are the various paths leading to truth. Now, no two spokes are identical, and no two start from the same place on the rim, but in that they all run straight and bind the rim to the hub the...	[ 7189, 6688, 499, 279, 1023, 1938, 1359, 20536, 56111, 11, 330, 1820, 7891, 315, 264, 13587, 11, 323, 279, 19240, 315, 279, 13587, 374, 8206, 11, 323, 279, 11449, 315, 279, 13587, 527, 279, 5370, 13006, 6522, 311, 8206, 13, 4800, 11, ...
The motor throttled down two hundred yards from shore and one of the young men dove flat over the edge. He swam at the aimless twisting board, steadied it, climbed slowly to his knees on it-- then got on his feet as the boat accelerated. Leaning back he swung his light vehicle ponderously from side to side in slow, b...	[ 791, 9048, 81072, 839, 1523, 1403, 7895, 14006, 505, 31284, 323, 832, 315, 279, 3995, 3026, 48322, 10269, 927, 279, 6964, 13, 220, 1283, 2064, 309, 520, 279, 9395, 1752, 80654, 4580, 11, 17269, 1142, 433, 11, 45519, 14297, 311, 813, 3...
Historians say, "The winter of 'seventy-four to 'seventy-five was a time of deep depression." But historians do not take little children into consideration. Deep depression? To three children on the prairie it was a time of glamour. There was not much to eat in the cupboard. There was little or no money in the fat...	[ 50083, 5493, 2019, 11, 330, 791, 12688, 315, 364, 325, 688, 88, 42117, 311, 364, 325, 688, 88, 36399, 574, 264, 892, 315, 5655, 18710, 1210, 220, 2030, 51801, 656, 539, 1935, 2697, 2911, 1139, 18361, 13, 220, 18682, 18710, 30, 220, ...
"But then, my dear fellow, I can prove the Invisible and follow the grades of it, and the modes by which it makes itself the Visible,--to a certain extent--but only to a certain extent. Beyond the provable limit I do not go. You, on the contrary, aided by the wings of imagination, outsoar that limit, and profess to fin...	[ 42513, 1243, 11, 856, 25237, 12637, 11, 358, 649, 12391, 279, 90138, 323, 1833, 279, 28711, 315, 433, 11, 323, 279, 20362, 555, 902, 433, 3727, 5196, 279, 71396, 11, 313, 998, 264, 3738, 13112, 313, 8248, 1193, 311, 264, 3738, 13112, ...
While Kennedy was questioning Manton I had been glancing through the script of the picture. My own connection with the movies had consisted largely of three attempts to sell stories of my own to the producers. Needless to remark I had not succeeded, in that regard falling in the class with some hundreds of thousands of...	[ 8142, 24573, 574, 34685, 386, 32054, 358, 1047, 1027, 2840, 9151, 1555, 279, 5429, 315, 279, 6945, 13, 3092, 1866, 3717, 449, 279, 9698, 1047, 44660, 14090, 315, 2380, 13865, 311, 4662, 7493, 315, 856, 1866, 311, 279, 24190, 13, 83383, ...
He drove back to London and was in bed before midnight. There was no raid, but he could not sleep. He wished he were in a house or flat where he could go to the kitchen and make himself a cup of tea, but his club bedroom had no such facilities and after an hour or two of lying awake he got up and looked in desperatio...	[ 1548, 23980, 1203, 311, 7295, 323, 574, 304, 4950, 1603, 33433, 13, 220, 2684, 574, 912, 25834, 11, 719, 568, 1436, 539, 6212, 13, 220, 1283, 37287, 568, 1051, 304, 264, 3838, 477, 10269, 1405, 568, 1436, 733, 311, 279, 9979, 323, 1...
At which Mary threw the letter on the table and laughed aloud. Hear how ill I am, but be sure not to take it to heart! Oh! it wasn't fair of him . . . it wasn't fair. He had her down and beaten, and he knew it: to such a letter there could be but one reply. Picking it up she re-read it, and for a moment alarm riddled h...	[ 1688, 902, 10455, 22982, 279, 6661, 389, 279, 2007, 323, 32627, 71511, 13, 57199, 1268, 5986, 358, 1097, 11, 719, 387, 2771, 539, 311, 1935, 433, 311, 4851, 0, 8840, 0, 433, 5828, 956, 6762, 315, 1461, 662, 662, 662, 433, 5828, 956,...
It was on a coastal island a fortnight's sail from Port Darwin--a large island with a fragment of beach and the rest of its littoral mud and mangroves and oyster-beds--and at the time of our coming there was on the fragment of beach no one at all. But presently from the two-miles-distant mainland came numbers of bark c...	[ 2181, 574, 389, 264, 35335, 13218, 264, 84311, 492, 596, 30503, 505, 5896, 45480, 313, 64, 3544, 13218, 449, 264, 12569, 315, 11573, 323, 279, 2800, 315, 1202, 60642, 10020, 27275, 323, 51296, 299, 2396, 323, 297, 22604, 1481, 6910, 313...
December 22nd. A preposterous and provoking episode has delayed us to-day. We had marched about 2 hours when we sighted camels and the smoke of tents. We took them to be (as indeed they were) Arabs of the Mountain, the Jebel Druze, with flocks. I told you that we tried in Dumeir to get one of the Jebel Druze Arabs as a...	[ 33246, 220, 1313, 303, 13, 362, 864, 46501, 788, 323, 2605, 10979, 9417, 706, 23540, 603, 311, 11477, 13, 1226, 1047, 59761, 922, 220, 17, 4207, 994, 584, 14254, 291, 6730, 2053, 323, 279, 16603, 315, 64470, 13, 1226, 3952, 1124, 311,...
'The front of Aunt Rosie's house was right on a street, but it had a fine garden at the back. It was the kind of house and the kind of street that she would live in. When my cage was first hung in the window I noticed two peculiar things. One was that the other window to the same room had a small mirror fixed outside o...	[ 17773, 383, 4156, 315, 71322, 97867, 596, 3838, 574, 1314, 389, 264, 8761, 11, 719, 433, 1047, 264, 7060, 13863, 520, 279, 1203, 13, 1102, 574, 279, 3169, 315, 3838, 323, 279, 3169, 315, 8761, 430, 1364, 1053, 3974, 304, 13, 3277, 8...
Left alone Polly remained standing by the table, on which an array of tins was set--preserved salmon, sardines, condensed milk--their tops forced back to show their contents. Her heart was heavy as lead, and she felt a dull sense of injury as well. This hut her home!--to which she had so freely invited sister and frien...	[ 5530, 7636, 94517, 14958, 11509, 555, 279, 2007, 11, 389, 902, 459, 1358, 315, 259, 1354, 574, 743, 313, 24544, 2841, 41420, 11, 274, 569, 1572, 11, 75826, 14403, 313, 50828, 33522, 9770, 1203, 311, 1501, 872, 8970, 13, 6385, 4851, 57...
Derrick had suddenly remembered the strange phenomenon he had witnessed in the moonlight, and was curious to discover whether the multitude of gnats had their home in the cave. He walked back through the archway; several yards of the cave were now visible in the daylight. The floor was for the most part of hard volcani...	[ 35, 61500, 1047, 15187, 27569, 279, 15234, 25885, 568, 1047, 32126, 304, 279, 18266, 4238, 11, 323, 574, 22999, 311, 7142, 3508, 279, 49068, 315, 39719, 1900, 1047, 872, 2162, 304, 279, 26457, 13, 1283, 15203, 1203, 1555, 279, 5438, 319...
There were other traps cunningly hidden on the way, but he avoided them all. At the end of the trail, he found the paunch, which had been poisoned and left on a favorite beat. He merely smelt it and passed on. Like the black, he was a smart tracker. He noticed the broken twig, the crushed blade of grass, and the distur...	[ 3947, 1051, 1023, 45660, 81779, 398, 8340, 389, 279, 1648, 11, 719, 568, 31890, 1124, 682, 13, 2468, 279, 842, 315, 279, 9025, 11, 568, 1766, 279, 7251, 3265, 11, 902, 1047, 1027, 71598, 323, 2163, 389, 264, 7075, 9567, 13, 1283, 16...
But Dorothy said it was not possible, for that she herself had never been in there; that the doors were always locked, and my lord's steward had the keys, she believed; at any rate, neither she nor James had ever seen them: so I said I would go back, and see if, after all, she was not hidden in the drawing-room, unknow...	[ 4071, 73658, 1071, 433, 574, 539, 3284, 11, 369, 430, 1364, 11937, 1047, 2646, 1027, 304, 1070, 26, 430, 279, 14365, 1051, 2744, 16447, 11, 323, 856, 38031, 596, 69606, 1047, 279, 7039, 11, 1364, 11846, 26, 520, 904, 4478, 11, 14188, ...
"We must apologise most humbly, your reverence," began Miusov, simpering affably, and speaking in a dignified and respectful tone. "Pardon us for having come alone without the gentleman you invited, Fyodor Pavlovitch. He felt obliged to decline the honour of your hospitality, and not without reason. In the reverend Fat...	[ 10944, 2011, 82485, 1455, 2854, 65, 398, 11, 701, 98464, 1359, 6137, 386, 9334, 869, 11, 1675, 61818, 3611, 2915, 11, 323, 12365, 304, 264, 28677, 1908, 323, 49150, 16630, 13, 330, 47, 46396, 603, 369, 3515, 2586, 7636, 2085, 279, 462...
Lost in doubt and perplexity, her spirits were now nearly exhausted; and unable to form any conjecture concerning the person below, from what she had heard, besought him to acquaint her who he was, and what was his business. Unwilling that she should suffer even a transient suspense, Enrico, after some little preparati...	[ 48353, 304, 10712, 323, 74252, 488, 11, 1077, 31739, 1051, 1457, 7154, 39019, 26, 323, 12153, 311, 1376, 904, 87015, 554, 18815, 279, 1732, 3770, 11, 505, 1148, 1364, 1047, 6755, 11, 9234, 2509, 1461, 311, 54627, 1077, 889, 568, 574, ...
Mrs. Dave Dyer snapped, "Honest? Do you call it honest to hold us up for every cent of pay they can get? I can't say that I've had any of them steal anything (though you might call it stealing to eat so much that a roast of beef hardly lasts three days), but just the same I don't intend to let them think they can put a...	[ 50329, 13, 20851, 423, 27253, 48110, 11, 330, 39, 36224, 30, 3234, 499, 1650, 433, 10978, 311, 3412, 603, 709, 369, 1475, 2960, 315, 2343, 814, 649, 636, 30, 358, 649, 956, 2019, 430, 358, 3077, 1047, 904, 315, 1124, 27669, 4205, 32...
On the fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain ephemeral operations were apt to disturb, in their trifling way, the majestic calm of Egdon Heath. They were activities which, beside those of a town, a village, or even a farm, would have appeared as the ferment of stagnation merely, a creeping of the fle...	[ 1966, 279, 7060, 2919, 520, 420, 892, 315, 279, 1060, 11, 323, 6931, 11, 3738, 83234, 3333, 7677, 1051, 20697, 311, 38323, 11, 304, 872, 90203, 2785, 1648, 11, 279, 81389, 19858, 315, 39175, 15357, 48562, 13, 2435, 1051, 7640, 902, 11...
"Toward the latter part of my attendance on Mrs. Macallan, a young widow lady named Mrs. Beauly--a cousin of Mr. Macallan's--came to stay at Gleninch. Mrs. Macallan was jealous of this lady; and she showed it in my presence only the day before her death, when Mr. Macallan came into her room to inquire how she had passe...	[ 96129, 83071, 279, 15629, 961, 315, 856, 28116, 389, 18083, 13, 7553, 543, 276, 11, 264, 3995, 57896, 17240, 7086, 18083, 13, 61814, 3988, 313, 64, 36271, 315, 4491, 13, 7553, 543, 276, 596, 313, 6142, 311, 4822, 520, 41061, 37850, 13...
And now by coach and mailman's bag it goes from town to town, And Conroy's Gap and Conroy's Creek have marked it `further down'. Beneath a sky of deepest blue where never cloud abides, A speck upon the waste of plain the lonely mailman rides. Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep He hails the...	[ 3112, 1457, 555, 7395, 323, 8232, 1543, 596, 9145, 433, 5900, 505, 6424, 311, 6424, 11, 1628, 1221, 3433, 596, 59015, 323, 1221, 3433, 596, 24076, 617, 13160, 433, 1595, 69, 4004, 1523, 4527, 87691, 589, 264, 13180, 315, 51621, 6437, ...
"I risked nine hundred francs," he continued, "but thread by thread I gathered the whole history of the Clamerans, Gaston's love-affair, his flight, and the stumbling of the horse ridden by Louis. I found also that about a year ago Louis returned, sold the chateau to a man named Fougeroux, whose wife, Mihonne, had a se...	[ 7189, 5326, 291, 11888, 7895, 44579, 82, 1359, 568, 8738, 11, 330, 8248, 4617, 555, 4617, 358, 20802, 279, 4459, 3925, 315, 279, 2493, 15589, 598, 11, 63742, 263, 596, 3021, 71260, 1334, 11, 813, 11213, 11, 323, 279, 88455, 315, 279, ...
When he was well enough to bear the journey they left home for a watering-place on the Bay. There, on an open beach facing the Heads, Mahony lay with his hat pulled forward to shade his eyes, and with nothing to do but to scoop up handfuls of the fine coral sand and let it flow again, like liquid silk, through his fing...	[ 4599, 568, 574, 1664, 3403, 311, 11984, 279, 11879, 814, 2163, 2162, 369, 264, 73841, 42761, 389, 279, 9332, 13, 2684, 11, 389, 459, 1825, 11573, 13176, 279, 71607, 11, 16566, 3633, 11203, 449, 813, 9072, 13541, 4741, 311, 28601, 813, ...
'Whatever trouble I have got myself into, I am alone to blame, sir,' Percy replied, 'I deserve it all, for repaying your unceasing kindness by ingratitude! And yet, I solemnly protest to you, sir, I could not help it! I embrace my fate, whatever it may be, with gladness; because it will remove me from all chance of eve...	[ 6, 47916, 12544, 358, 617, 2751, 7182, 1139, 11, 358, 1097, 7636, 311, 19065, 11, 28146, 2965, 75786, 20592, 11, 364, 40, 23528, 433, 682, 11, 369, 2109, 17718, 701, 653, 346, 4522, 45972, 555, 81336, 17584, 0, 1628, 3686, 11, 358, ...
The barn was finished; a great big place it was, with hay-stalls on both sides and a threshing-floor in the middle. The shed and the other makeshift places were emptied now, and all the hay brought into the barn; the corn was reaped, dried in stacks, and carted in. Inger took up the carrots and turnips. All their crops...	[ 791, 33419, 574, 8220, 26, 264, 2294, 2466, 2035, 433, 574, 11, 449, 18137, 5594, 5700, 389, 2225, 11314, 323, 264, 52844, 287, 80450, 304, 279, 6278, 13, 578, 25351, 323, 279, 1023, 87180, 7634, 1051, 94972, 1457, 11, 323, 682, 279, ...
I agreed to this program, and as soon as we had finished our breakfast we went forth, making our way by Free School-lane and The Common to the marshes west of Gas House-road. From there we entered Black Boy-lane at the lower end, and slowly followed its windings, Thorndyke looking about him attentively, and occasionall...	[ 40, 7378, 311, 420, 2068, 11, 323, 439, 5246, 439, 584, 1047, 8220, 1057, 17954, 584, 4024, 13544, 11, 3339, 1057, 1648, 555, 3658, 6150, 2922, 2194, 323, 578, 7874, 311, 279, 33096, 288, 9909, 315, 21523, 4783, 66815, 13, 5659, 1070,...
He lounged by the fire while she made coffee. A certain outward excitement died down in him, and he began to feel very cosy and tranquil and quietly talkative, so that when she brought the coffee and sat opposite him at the other side of the fire, they both plunged into chatter about the concert and music and other top...	[ 1548, 84244, 291, 555, 279, 4027, 1418, 1364, 1903, 11033, 13, 362, 3738, 52046, 28361, 8636, 1523, 304, 1461, 11, 323, 568, 6137, 311, 2733, 1633, 85979, 323, 68040, 323, 30666, 3137, 1413, 11, 779, 430, 994, 1364, 7263, 279, 11033, ...
He then spoke of St. Peggotty's more domestic concerns. There were esoteric allusions here; professional similes, anecdotes, nicknames, and reminiscences which set some of the whiter heads shouting. But he was not wholly inaudible till he expounded his well-known views on the Pharmacopoeia Britannica, and, incidentally...	[ 1548, 1243, 12570, 315, 800, 13, 393, 29468, 58739, 596, 810, 13018, 10742, 13, 2684, 1051, 1560, 83775, 682, 36807, 1618, 26, 6721, 1675, 3742, 11, 94066, 11, 16370, 11654, 11, 323, 43650, 3510, 2436, 902, 743, 1063, 315, 279, 421, 2...
Nevertheless he was a determined little devil, as she knew to her cost, and once he'd got an idea into his head not heaven nor hell nor Harriet would ever batter it out. And now he'd got into his head this idea of being lord and master, and Harriet's acknowledging him as such. Not just verbally. No. Not under the flag ...	[ 70788, 568, 574, 264, 11075, 2697, 38736, 11, 439, 1364, 7020, 311, 1077, 2853, 11, 323, 3131, 568, 4265, 2751, 459, 4623, 1139, 813, 2010, 539, 23070, 6463, 15123, 6463, 5340, 65670, 1053, 3596, 8919, 433, 704, 13, 1628, 1457, 568, 4...
Of the signs of these Twelve that were chosen by the Christ shall I speak later: for in the nature of each of these men was there that which should be used to send forth parts of that great truth which should come into the world. If ye will ask me a little later, then shall I give you these meanings; but the signs may ...	[ 2173, 279, 12195, 315, 1521, 70332, 430, 1051, 12146, 555, 279, 3771, 4985, 358, 6604, 3010, 25, 369, 304, 279, 7138, 315, 1855, 315, 1521, 3026, 574, 1070, 430, 902, 1288, 387, 1511, 311, 3708, 13544, 5596, 315, 430, 2294, 8206, 902,...
When a gap appeared overhead at last there was no blaze of light to make us blink, but a row of heads at each edge of the hole with nothing but another lantern somewhere in the gloom behind them. One by one we went up and they made way for us, closing in each time to scan the next-comer's face; and when we were all up...	[ 4599, 264, 13225, 9922, 32115, 520, 1566, 1070, 574, 912, 63573, 315, 3177, 311, 1304, 603, 34231, 11, 719, 264, 2872, 315, 14971, 520, 1855, 6964, 315, 279, 14512, 449, 4400, 719, 2500, 74265, 15038, 304, 279, 14015, 316, 4920, 1124, ...
From that time there was a change in Warrigal. Not that he was aggressive or domineering. He was as peaceful and tractable as ever, but he was restless and discontented. Towards nightfall he sat in front of the house, listening intently and looking out into the bush. Now and again he threw back his head and uttered the...	[ 3915, 430, 892, 1070, 574, 264, 2349, 304, 468, 1138, 343, 278, 13, 2876, 430, 568, 574, 19738, 477, 4824, 483, 4776, 13, 1283, 574, 439, 26733, 323, 42929, 481, 439, 3596, 11, 719, 568, 574, 89358, 323, 91222, 291, 13, 94965, 3814,...
"The exterior crust has cooled. Inside that there is probably a semi- fluid sphere, and inside that again, possibly, the rigid body, the core of the earth. But I don't believe that that hole has been filled, simply because it must have been there to begin with. Granted also that the pull of gravitation is towards the c...	[ 10227, 28362, 40712, 706, 65410, 13, 28468, 430, 1070, 374, 4762, 264, 18768, 12, 15962, 26436, 11, 323, 4871, 430, 1578, 11, 11000, 11, 279, 33956, 2547, 11, 279, 6332, 315, 279, 9578, 13, 2030, 358, 1541, 956, 4510, 430, 430, 14512,...
Considering that Christianity has commonly been represented as almost the sole cause of the mitigation and final abolishment of slavery in Europe, it deserves special notice that the chief improvement in the condition of slaves at Rome took place at so early a period that Christianity could have absolutely no share in ...	[ 83896, 430, 32186, 706, 17037, 1027, 15609, 439, 4661, 279, 13612, 5353, 315, 279, 66860, 323, 1620, 37276, 16409, 315, 33792, 304, 4606, 11, 433, 30675, 3361, 5406, 430, 279, 10388, 16048, 304, 279, 3044, 315, 32760, 520, 22463, 3952, ...
The planets, like the earth, move around the sun. Some of them are so far away as to be of no consequence and, like the stars, may be dismissed. But one or two are so close to the earth that they may turn out to be fit for business. The planet Mars is of special interest inasmuch as its surface shows traces of what ...	[ 791, 33975, 11, 1093, 279, 9578, 11, 3351, 2212, 279, 7160, 13, 220, 4427, 315, 1124, 527, 779, 3117, 3201, 439, 311, 387, 315, 912, 29774, 323, 11, 1093, 279, 9958, 11, 1253, 387, 27292, 13, 220, 2030, 832, 477, 1403, 527, 779, 3...
My landing-place happened to be none of the best. After clearing the water, it required all Cleopatra's strength and activity to climb the bank. Having slipped into the saddle as he regained footing, I was lying flat against the side of his neck, to help his centre of gravity and give him a hold with his front feet, w...	[ 5159, 20948, 42761, 7077, 311, 387, 7000, 315, 279, 1888, 13, 220, 4740, 33850, 279, 3090, 11, 433, 2631, 682, 37102, 454, 40658, 596, 8333, 323, 5820, 311, 26438, 279, 6201, 13, 20636, 43578, 1139, 279, 61858, 439, 568, 86025, 74503, ...
I turned and saw that Flora, whom, ten minutes before, I had established in the schoolroom with a sheet of white paper, a pencil, and a copy of nice "round o's," now presented herself to view at the open door. She expressed in her little way an extraordinary detachment from disagreeable duties, looking to me, however, ...	[ 40, 6656, 323, 5602, 430, 3061, 6347, 11, 8884, 11, 5899, 4520, 1603, 11, 358, 1047, 9749, 304, 279, 2978, 3039, 449, 264, 11071, 315, 4251, 5684, 11, 264, 47218, 11, 323, 264, 3048, 315, 6555, 330, 1067, 297, 596, 1359, 1457, 10666...
And now after four years the sensitive, injured and pathetic little orphan had become a plump, rosy beauty of the Russian type, a woman of bold and determined character, proud and insolent. She had a good head for business, was acquisitive, saving and careful, and by fair means or foul had succeeded, it was said, in am...	[ 3112, 1457, 1306, 3116, 1667, 279, 16614, 11, 15902, 323, 67163, 2697, 13036, 1047, 3719, 264, 628, 1538, 11, 938, 23707, 13444, 315, 279, 8690, 955, 11, 264, 5333, 315, 14265, 323, 11075, 3752, 11, 12691, 323, 85943, 306, 13, 3005, 1...
At a quarter to one she was out of the house. She walked along to Clarence Gate, then, feeling, she scarcely knew why, extremely defiant, she summoned a taxi. The taxi driver, of the colour of beetroot and smelling of mice, thought to himself cheerfully, "There's a pretty young piece." She was wearing a dress of plu...	[ 1688, 264, 8502, 311, 832, 1364, 574, 704, 315, 279, 3838, 13, 220, 3005, 15203, 3235, 311, 88830, 30343, 11, 1243, 11, 8430, 11, 1364, 80987, 7020, 3249, 11, 9193, 87371, 11, 1364, 52810, 264, 33605, 13, 220, 578, 33605, 5696, 11, ...
During the time the fleet was occupying the Basin, the Masters of the ships were constantly out making observations and sounding, partly for the necessities of the fleet and partly to throw dust in the eyes of the French; and on one occasion Cook had a narrow escape from capture, his men had to row for it to get away f...	[ 16397, 279, 892, 279, 26155, 574, 72280, 279, 61358, 11, 279, 34722, 315, 279, 18198, 1051, 15320, 704, 3339, 24654, 323, 49227, 11, 28135, 369, 279, 76500, 315, 279, 26155, 323, 28135, 311, 2571, 16174, 304, 279, 6548, 315, 279, 8753, ...
In the thirty-eighth year of my pastorate, and just twenty-one years after my brother pastor, the Reverend Sören Qvist of Vejlbye, was sentenced to death and beheaded for the murder of one of his servants, it happened that a beggar came to my door. He was an elderly man with grizzled hair, and walked with the aid of a ...	[ 644, 279, 27219, 5773, 22635, 1060, 315, 856, 3347, 38995, 11, 323, 1120, 17510, 19101, 1667, 1306, 856, 10868, 44044, 11, 279, 83279, 408, 328, 89387, 1229, 85, 380, 315, 23404, 44970, 29474, 11, 574, 30231, 311, 4648, 323, 387, 63600,...
This arrogant friar, of whom Petrarch has left us a vivid portrait, a red-faced, red-bearded man, with a fringe of red hair about his tonsure, short and squat of figure, dirty in his dress and habits, yet imbued with the pride of Lucifer despite his rags, thrust himself violently into the Council of Regency, demanding ...	[ 2028, 66468, 2698, 277, 11, 315, 8884, 96876, 1132, 706, 2163, 603, 264, 43120, 34133, 11, 264, 2579, 77981, 11, 2579, 15502, 21632, 893, 11, 449, 264, 55907, 315, 2579, 7013, 922, 813, 20181, 554, 11, 2875, 323, 58570, 315, 7216, 11,...
"Our friend the famous sculptor," he laughed. "The greatest man of his kind in the world. The friend of princes, the darling of all the ladies in England's fashionable drawing-rooms. The man who makes the income of a king, and spends it twice over. The man who ought to be rich, but is really poorer than the meanest cit...	[ 52825, 4333, 279, 11495, 27863, 269, 1359, 568, 32627, 13, 330, 791, 12474, 893, 315, 813, 3169, 304, 279, 1917, 13, 578, 4333, 315, 84293, 11, 279, 76745, 315, 682, 279, 23628, 304, 9635, 596, 60423, 13633, 12, 9949, 13, 578, 893, ...
"No," I replied, "there is nothing of the magpie about me. I don't accumulate old things for the sake of forming a collection. I buy old furniture and use it. One must have furniture of some kind, old or new, and I prefer the old. It was made by men who knew all about it and who enjoyed making it and took their time. I...	[ 39522, 1359, 358, 20592, 11, 330, 19041, 374, 4400, 315, 279, 4983, 20898, 922, 757, 13, 358, 1541, 956, 47376, 2362, 2574, 369, 279, 25491, 315, 30164, 264, 4526, 13, 358, 3780, 2362, 14891, 323, 1005, 433, 13, 3861, 2011, 617, 14891...
The Prince of Padoung succeeded _Thenkaya_, whether by the suffrages of the people or by usurpation on his part is not stated. He was noted for his wisdom and charitable disposition. He paid a visit to the King of Ava according to promise, and was so annoyed with the want of respect shown to him on his reception, that ...	[ 791, 19912, 315, 26367, 283, 983, 26399, 721, 12487, 74, 12874, 7022, 3508, 555, 279, 8657, 81, 1154, 315, 279, 1274, 477, 555, 96188, 79, 367, 389, 813, 961, 374, 539, 11224, 13, 1283, 574, 10555, 369, 813, 24278, 323, 48801, 46096, ...
And now that Kenneth was relieved from the care of Jim, he could be much more serviceable to his uncle, and the days passed busily and cheerfully, the evenings peacefully. Although the father and mother regretted the absence of their son, it was impossible for the cousin to feel it otherwise than as a relief. And the p...	[ 3112, 1457, 430, 49498, 574, 51512, 505, 279, 2512, 315, 11641, 11, 568, 1436, 387, 1790, 810, 2532, 481, 311, 813, 38594, 11, 323, 279, 2919, 5946, 5951, 1570, 323, 26085, 3725, 11, 279, 59938, 67879, 13, 10541, 279, 7126, 323, 6691,...
Meanwhile, the native papers took the matter up and proved to nine points of decimals that the incident was wholly due to British arrogance and the neglect of public duty by an "overpaid alien hegemony," demonstrating among other things that the British are a race "whose crass materialism is an insult to the spiritual ...	[ 26054, 11, 279, 10068, 16064, 3952, 279, 5030, 709, 323, 19168, 311, 11888, 3585, 315, 59428, 430, 279, 10672, 574, 42241, 4245, 311, 8013, 83843, 323, 279, 39332, 315, 586, 14523, 555, 459, 330, 2017, 35778, 20167, 90503, 19399, 1359, ...
Saturday he spent in Southampton, receiving courtesies, conferring honours, and, with the Marquis de las Navas at his elbow for interpreter, speaking with the English gentlemen who had come to do him honour. On Sunday he went to Mass on foot. On. Monday, with a company of a thousand courtiers, guarded by three hundred ...	[ 34774, 568, 7543, 304, 62251, 11, 12588, 2126, 2392, 552, 11, 2389, 14782, 5954, 2530, 11, 323, 11, 449, 279, 2947, 9383, 409, 5252, 12233, 300, 520, 813, 46811, 369, 40399, 11, 12365, 449, 279, 6498, 58909, 889, 1047, 2586, 311, 656,...
A smell of molten tallow came up from the dean's candle butts and fused itself in Stephen's consciousness with the jingle of the words, bucket and lamp and lamp and bucket. The priest's voice, too, had a hard jingling tone. Stephen's mind halted by instinct, checked by the strange tone and the imagery and by the priest...	[ 32, 22843, 315, 22337, 2002, 259, 7331, 3782, 709, 505, 279, 73962, 596, 38899, 719, 2641, 323, 75754, 5196, 304, 18587, 596, 25917, 449, 279, 503, 2222, 315, 279, 4339, 11, 15994, 323, 29062, 323, 29062, 323, 15994, 13, 578, 28185, 5...
You may be sure a by-job of this sort interfer'd with no other pursuit, or plan of life; which I led, in truth, with a modesty and reserve that was less the work of virtue than of exhausted novelty, a glut of pleasure, and easy circumstances, that made me indifferent to any engagements in which pleasure and profit were...	[ 2675, 1253, 387, 2771, 264, 555, 71048, 315, 420, 3460, 41305, 4265, 449, 912, 1023, 33436, 11, 477, 3197, 315, 2324, 26, 902, 358, 6197, 11, 304, 8206, 11, 449, 264, 27946, 88, 323, 21137, 430, 574, 2753, 279, 990, 315, 35460, 1109...
And they were as different in personal appearance, as in mental qualities and disposition. Mompesson was the dashing eagle; Mitchell the sorry kite. Sir Francis was weakly, emaciated in frame; much given to sensual indulgence; and his body conformed to his timorous organization. His shrunken shanks scarcely sufficed to...	[ 3112, 814, 1051, 439, 2204, 304, 4443, 11341, 11, 439, 304, 10723, 29600, 323, 46096, 13, 386, 14773, 72505, 574, 279, 294, 19587, 60989, 26, 31038, 279, 14931, 99219, 13, 17177, 26184, 574, 7621, 398, 11, 991, 582, 10234, 304, 4124, ...
In the two succeeding centuries, however, great changes had taken place, and many events had reduced the once powerful and splendid ancestors of Sir Emanfred to little more than a military dependance. The proud nature of the Knight shrunk from the consequences of the total ruin of his house; and, indignant at the disgr...	[ 644, 279, 1403, 73820, 24552, 11, 4869, 11, 2294, 4442, 1047, 4529, 2035, 11, 323, 1690, 4455, 1047, 11293, 279, 3131, 8147, 323, 70960, 38618, 315, 17177, 469, 1543, 29093, 311, 2697, 810, 1109, 264, 6411, 6904, 685, 13, 578, 12691, ...
"Let us see, now!" said Hanaud. He took the end of the arrow-shaft from one envelope, and the barb from his pocket, and fitted them together. The iron barb was loose now because the hole to receive it at the top of the arrow-shaft had been widened to take a nib. But the spoke was just about the right length. He laid th...	[ 1, 10267, 603, 1518, 11, 1457, 9135, 1071, 473, 3444, 664, 13, 1283, 3952, 279, 842, 315, 279, 18404, 7666, 64, 728, 505, 832, 35498, 11, 323, 279, 3703, 65, 505, 813, 18301, 11, 323, 29441, 1124, 3871, 13, 578, 11245, 3703, 65, 5...
Yes, certainly this is the sentimental nostalgia of the Past, for men were encumbered then as now, apprehension was no less, danger invigorating, sharp, poignant then as now. Only--yes, this for certain--London was both more casual and more dignified, the pace was slower, the claims to your attention fewer and less st...	[ 9642, 11, 7995, 420, 374, 279, 93038, 65875, 315, 279, 24561, 11, 369, 3026, 1051, 3289, 900, 291, 1243, 439, 1457, 11, 47291, 2711, 574, 912, 2753, 11, 8137, 1558, 71070, 1113, 11, 17676, 11, 93447, 1243, 439, 1457, 13, 220, 8442, ...
I stared; but I soon realised that the Major was quite in earnest. Glancing at the girl, I saw her smile faintly as I caught her eye; and I blushed, feeling that she read my thoughts in my face. Honestly, I was inclined to be vexed at the self-absorbed particularly about trifles shown by a man who had just narrowly esc...	[ 40, 45135, 26, 719, 358, 5246, 41193, 430, 279, 17559, 574, 5115, 304, 55349, 13, 8444, 9151, 520, 279, 3828, 11, 358, 5602, 1077, 15648, 38678, 398, 439, 358, 10791, 1077, 8071, 26, 323, 358, 1529, 53078, 11, 8430, 430, 1364, 1373, ...
Lady Franks rose significantly and left the room, accompanied by Arthur's wife. Aaron knew, silently, that he was summoned to follow. His hostess had her eye on him this evening. But always postponing his obedience to the cool commands of women, he remained talking with his host in the library, and sipping _creme de ...	[ 76702, 2939, 4129, 16392, 12207, 323, 2163, 279, 3130, 11, 24895, 555, 28686, 596, 7555, 13, 220, 26757, 7020, 11, 50494, 11, 430, 568, 574, 52810, 311, 1833, 13, 5414, 3552, 434, 1047, 1077, 8071, 389, 1461, 420, 11714, 13, 220, 2030...
Mr. Juniper asked Miss Maxwell if she could sing the song beginning with "Oh! whistle and I'll come to you, my lad!" at which the room rang with laughter, while Griselda replied that she had not yet learnt it, but would be happy to hear him sing it, or any other song agreeable to him. Juniper wanted no second asking. T...	[ 12555, 13, 12044, 13154, 4691, 9083, 59497, 422, 1364, 1436, 7936, 279, 5609, 7314, 449, 330, 12174, 0, 40649, 323, 358, 3358, 2586, 311, 499, 11, 856, 58725, 9135, 520, 902, 279, 3130, 43200, 449, 43214, 11, 1418, 2895, 285, 38008, 2...
Kombo, when he beheld the monoliths standing out against the sky, cried aloud that "Debil-debil sat down there," and hid himself behind a bank of shrubs where he again assiduously repeated what he could remember of the Lord's Prayer. The air was very still; no wind stirred the tree-tops on the mountain side; neither hu...	[ 42, 81487, 11, 994, 568, 2824, 789, 279, 1647, 48218, 82, 11509, 704, 2403, 279, 13180, 11, 39169, 71511, 430, 330, 1951, 49938, 6953, 49938, 7731, 1523, 1070, 1359, 323, 31894, 5678, 4920, 264, 6201, 315, 14362, 16115, 1405, 568, 1578,...
But is it ever possible to be really intimate with the working class? I shall have to discuss that later; I will only say here that I do not think it is possible. But undoubtedly it is easier in the North than it would be in the South to meet working-class people on approximately equal terms. It is fairly easy to live ...	[ 4071, 374, 433, 3596, 3284, 311, 387, 2216, 32487, 449, 279, 3318, 538, 30, 358, 4985, 617, 311, 4358, 430, 3010, 26, 358, 690, 1193, 2019, 1618, 430, 358, 656, 539, 1781, 433, 374, 3284, 13, 2030, 38048, 433, 374, 8831, 304, 279, ...
It should be noted, too, that while to us who come after, the great complex evolutionary movement of the two last centuries justly reveals itself as one and indivisible, a single grand cosmical drama, having many acts and many scenes, but all alike inspired by one informing and pervading unity, yet to those whose half ...	[ 2181, 1288, 387, 10555, 11, 2288, 11, 430, 1418, 311, 603, 889, 2586, 1306, 11, 279, 2294, 6485, 41993, 7351, 315, 279, 1403, 1566, 24552, 1120, 398, 21667, 5196, 439, 832, 323, 3687, 23936, 11, 264, 3254, 6800, 56754, 950, 20156, 11,...
It was after Skrebensky had gone that there sprang up between the mistress and the girl that strange awareness, then the unspoken intimacy that sometimes connects two people who may never even make each other's acquaintance. Before, they had always been good friends, in the undistinguished way of the class-room, with t...	[ 2181, 574, 1306, 4923, 32575, 729, 8050, 1047, 8208, 430, 1070, 8314, 526, 709, 1990, 279, 66194, 323, 279, 3828, 430, 15234, 17985, 11, 1243, 279, 653, 52858, 66264, 430, 7170, 34161, 1403, 1274, 889, 1253, 2646, 1524, 1304, 1855, 1023...
Madge and I buried them there on the shores of the desolate northern sea. They lie in one grave deep down beneath the yellow sand. Strange things may happen in the world around them. Empires may rise and may fall, dynasties may perish, great wars may come and go, but, heedless of it all, those two shall embrace each ot...	[ 38136, 713, 323, 358, 28016, 1124, 1070, 389, 279, 63263, 315, 279, 951, 34166, 18671, 9581, 13, 2435, 10457, 304, 832, 25165, 5655, 1523, 24923, 279, 14071, 9462, 13, 43693, 2574, 1253, 3621, 304, 279, 1917, 2212, 1124, 13, 13714, 3946...
"He is in the island, but he is unable to join us in the House. Captain Maris tried, and was unfortunately captured. He was handed over to me as the victor of the race, and that is why he is here. But Sir Edward must be still scouting around the outposts, and it is pretty certain that he won't find a way in. I'm afra...	[ 27423, 374, 304, 279, 13218, 11, 719, 568, 374, 12153, 311, 5249, 603, 304, 279, 4783, 13, 22022, 2947, 285, 6818, 11, 323, 574, 26907, 17439, 13, 220, 1283, 574, 23415, 927, 311, 757, 439, 279, 5310, 269, 315, 279, 7102, 11, 323, ...
"No direct evidence, it is true. But the presumptive evidence is so strong that it is hardly needed. In the first place, Milly Saker saw her going down the hall in the direction of the left wing just before the murder was committed. Next day--this morning--the housekeeper sent Milly Saker out of the way before she coul...	[ 39522, 2167, 6029, 11, 433, 374, 837, 13, 2030, 279, 23073, 54835, 6029, 374, 779, 3831, 430, 433, 374, 20781, 4460, 13, 763, 279, 1176, 2035, 11, 10357, 398, 328, 4506, 5602, 1077, 2133, 1523, 279, 14321, 304, 279, 5216, 315, 279, ...
For all the daily business of life, then, each of us is mentally a distinct individual, though his ordinary means of communication with others is "telepathic." But frequently he wakes up to be a group-mind. Apart from this "waking of individuals together," if I may so call it, the group-mind has no existence; for its b...	[ 2520, 682, 279, 7446, 2626, 315, 2324, 11, 1243, 11, 1855, 315, 603, 374, 34325, 264, 12742, 3927, 11, 3582, 813, 19664, 3445, 315, 10758, 449, 3885, 374, 330, 15772, 2398, 292, 1210, 2030, 14134, 568, 62667, 709, 311, 387, 264, 1912,...
"Is it my fault?" asked the man. "Was it right to send those who are born of women to capture a spirit or a witch?--since no maid in whom warm blood flows can run up and down pyramids faced with smooth and shining stone, as flies run up and down a wall, which we saw this one do. Is it right to expect them to fight and ...	[ 1, 3957, 433, 856, 14867, 7673, 4691, 279, 893, 13, 330, 27125, 433, 1314, 311, 3708, 1884, 889, 527, 9405, 315, 3278, 311, 12602, 264, 9090, 477, 264, 37482, 30, 313, 11536, 912, 43165, 304, 8884, 8369, 6680, 28555, 649, 1629, 709, ...
There is a tragic side to the boundary rider's life, which renders his hermit-like existence objectionable to most men. He may be a fort-night or a month without seeing a soul; or, if illness overtakes him, or he meets with an accident, he has no one to nurse him or even to cook for him. He must shift for himself and t...	[ 3947, 374, 264, 35279, 3185, 311, 279, 19254, 38226, 596, 2324, 11, 902, 45382, 813, 1077, 1800, 12970, 14209, 46655, 481, 311, 1455, 3026, 13, 1283, 1253, 387, 264, 12108, 45427, 477, 264, 2305, 2085, 9298, 264, 13836, 26, 477, 11, 4...
As regards the "material life" I am sometimes rather hard up for meat, and my diet is principally oatcake and cheese, with the butter which we brought with us. Every evening I have my cigarette in a rocking-chair by the kitchen fire, having persuaded my friends that all Welshwomen smoke. My host accepted a cigarette th...	[ 2170, 24886, 279, 330, 8407, 2324, 1, 358, 1097, 7170, 4856, 2653, 709, 369, 13339, 11, 323, 856, 10173, 374, 92381, 72754, 48484, 323, 17604, 11, 449, 279, 14432, 902, 584, 7263, 449, 603, 13, 7357, 11714, 358, 617, 856, 36213, 304, ...
"'It's got hold of my feet! It's got hold of my feet!' he screamed. His feet, had disappeared up to his boot-tops, and Captain Gannington caught him round the waist with his powerful left arm, gave a mighty heave, and the next instant had him free; but both his boot-soles had gone. For my part, I jumped madly from foot...	[ 21230, 2181, 596, 2751, 3412, 315, 856, 7693, 0, 1102, 596, 2751, 3412, 315, 856, 7693, 32483, 568, 61466, 13, 5414, 7693, 11, 1047, 29496, 709, 311, 813, 10677, 2442, 3806, 11, 323, 22022, 480, 1036, 4910, 10791, 1461, 4883, 279, 291...
In a sudden blind impotent fury, Tregarthen turned to the retainer who still was dazedly holding up the salver. From it Tregarthen took the sod with trembling hands. In all his life before he had never been in such a rage, and that is saying a great deal. He had intended to come here to-day and impress his people as he...	[ 644, 264, 11210, 18507, 3242, 64632, 64159, 11, 350, 34830, 3473, 6656, 311, 279, 2160, 1780, 889, 2103, 574, 294, 28109, 398, 10168, 709, 279, 4371, 424, 13, 5659, 433, 350, 34830, 3473, 3952, 279, 24905, 449, 93088, 6206, 13, 763, 6...
In the meantime the more exceptional couple and the boy still lingered in the pavilion of flowers--an enchanted palace to their appreciative taste--Sue's usually pale cheeks reflecting the pink of the tinted roses at which she gazed; for the gay sights, the air, the music, and the excitement of a day's outing with Jude...	[ 644, 279, 33953, 279, 810, 25363, 5743, 323, 279, 8334, 2103, 40609, 291, 304, 279, 40216, 50012, 315, 19837, 313, 276, 98411, 44439, 311, 872, 9989, 54679, 12945, 313, 50, 361, 596, 6118, 28639, 54888, 42852, 279, 18718, 315, 279, 4910...
"Yet you behold," continued the old alchemist, casting an inexpressibly mournful glance around the wretched apartment, "the way we live. Our food is insufficient and of bad quality; we never buy clothes; the rent of this hole is a mere nothing. What am I to think of the wretched girl who plunges me into this misery? ...	[ 1, 29174, 499, 57215, 1359, 8738, 279, 2362, 453, 75188, 11, 25146, 459, 304, 14107, 6623, 60234, 1285, 34522, 2212, 279, 289, 62837, 13455, 11, 330, 1820, 1648, 584, 3974, 13, 220, 5751, 3691, 374, 39413, 323, 315, 3958, 4367, 26, 58...
But with Adolph Blum her secrets were safe. His mind was feudal; the rich and fortunate were also the privileged. These warm- blooded, quick-breathing people took chances,--followed impulses only dimly understandable to a boy who was wet and weather-chapped all the year; who waded in the mud fishing for cat, or lay i...	[ 4071, 449, 2467, 44070, 2563, 372, 1077, 24511, 1051, 6220, 13, 220, 5414, 4059, 574, 95450, 26, 279, 9257, 323, 40510, 1051, 1101, 279, 47361, 13, 220, 4314, 8369, 12, 6680, 291, 11, 4062, 93008, 44661, 1274, 3952, 17393, 11, 313, 19...
I could entertain you at length upon my sensations as I walked between my guards, a man on the threshold of eternity, with hundreds of men and women gaping at me - men and women who would live for years to gape upon many another wretch in my position. The sun shone with a brilliance that to such eyes as mine was a ver...	[ 40, 1436, 46276, 499, 520, 3160, 5304, 856, 72597, 439, 358, 15203, 1990, 856, 27270, 11, 264, 893, 389, 279, 12447, 315, 64482, 11, 449, 11758, 315, 3026, 323, 3278, 100036, 520, 757, 482, 3026, 323, 3278, 889, 1053, 3974, 369, 1667,...
Rest, talk of rest to him who could not keep quiet even now. No, he glanced restlessly and uneasily about; he started if a door shut, or a rat or mouse ran behind the wainscoating. If he turned towards the wall, there he saw Inez's watchful eyes looking at him out of the gloom, as they used to do in life; he saw her da...	[ 12698, 11, 3137, 315, 2800, 311, 1461, 889, 1436, 539, 2567, 11594, 1524, 1457, 13, 2360, 11, 568, 65657, 2800, 16117, 323, 6316, 38367, 922, 26, 568, 3940, 422, 264, 6134, 9495, 11, 477, 264, 11494, 477, 8814, 10837, 4920, 279, 289, ...
In many respects the maps are similar, and give evidence of having been derived from the same source. From the fact that although admittedly French they contained names that looked like gallicized Portuguese, Major argued,* following Barbie du Bocage, that in all probability the original discovery was Portuguese becaus...	[ 644, 1690, 43666, 279, 14370, 527, 4528, 11, 323, 3041, 6029, 315, 3515, 1027, 14592, 505, 279, 1890, 2592, 13, 5659, 279, 2144, 430, 8051, 79813, 8753, 814, 13282, 5144, 430, 7111, 1093, 15730, 416, 1534, 43288, 11, 17559, 18784, 29107...
Various artifices were adopted for successfully hunting the kangaroo, emu and dingo (wild dog). Regular chases would sometimes be organised in the winter, when the ground was soft and boggy, and the game could not travel fast; the kangaroo would then be fairly run down by the blacks, who for the time being would appear...	[ 73741, 1989, 1104, 288, 1051, 18306, 369, 7946, 23330, 279, 99386, 76865, 11, 991, 84, 323, 294, 29008, 320, 68974, 5679, 570, 29900, 523, 2315, 1053, 7170, 387, 39433, 304, 279, 12688, 11, 994, 279, 5015, 574, 8579, 323, 35519, 4680, ...
Minnie remained straining out of the window for a minute. Then she drew her head back into the room again. She was dumbfounded. "Of course he is eccentric," she meditated. "But running about London--in the height of the season, too--in his socks!" A happy thought struck her. She hastily put her bonnet on, seized his sh...	[ 44, 99289, 14958, 610, 2101, 704, 315, 279, 3321, 369, 264, 9568, 13, 5112, 1364, 24465, 1077, 2010, 1203, 1139, 279, 3130, 1578, 13, 3005, 574, 30355, 69, 13382, 13, 330, 2173, 3388, 568, 374, 55920, 1359, 1364, 1812, 33337, 13, 330,...
Never had her ignorance of life and literature so weighed on her as in reliving the short scene of her discomfiture. "It's no use trying to be anything in this place," she muttered to her pillow; and she shrivelled at the vision of vague metropolises, shining super-Nettletons, where girls in better clothes than Belle B...	[ 27247, 1047, 1077, 41660, 315, 2324, 323, 17649, 779, 47712, 389, 1077, 439, 304, 1375, 2299, 279, 2875, 6237, 315, 1077, 834, 884, 6410, 554, 13, 330, 2181, 596, 912, 1005, 4560, 311, 387, 4205, 304, 420, 2035, 1359, 1364, 87694, 311...
But it was prospective affluence. My actual possessions amounted to four shillings and sixpence; but it was all my own, for the half-crown that had been ear marked for rent was now available for food. Still, this was Monday morning and wages were payable on Saturday night, so I should have to manage on nine pence a day...	[ 4071, 433, 574, 33547, 3611, 10036, 768, 13, 3092, 5150, 53635, 74319, 311, 3116, 559, 484, 826, 323, 4848, 79, 768, 26, 719, 433, 574, 682, 856, 1866, 11, 369, 279, 4376, 1824, 4935, 430, 1047, 1027, 2487, 13160, 369, 8175, 574, 14...
'There is no doubt, Sir, whatsoever that he is perfectly well. Three different persons--unexceptionable witnesses--can depose to having seen him last night, and he had a long conference with Captain Lake, who is by this time making his deposition. It is with respect to the other little matter--the execution of the deed...	[ 17773, 6881, 374, 912, 10712, 11, 17177, 11, 36734, 430, 568, 374, 14268, 1664, 13, 14853, 2204, 11434, 313, 359, 7959, 481, 28823, 313, 4919, 2219, 974, 311, 3515, 3970, 1461, 1566, 3814, 11, 323, 568, 1047, 264, 1317, 10017, 449, 22...
"After his death I brooded over my grief till I became nearly frenzied. I could not banish the thought that but for my rashness and foolishness in taking her from her home my wife might still have been living. To myself I seemed little short of a murderer. I left the camp and wandered, night and day, afar into the moun...	[ 99519, 813, 4648, 358, 2967, 6879, 927, 856, 38384, 12222, 358, 6244, 7154, 47934, 89, 1142, 13, 358, 1436, 539, 9120, 819, 279, 3463, 430, 719, 369, 856, 57342, 2136, 323, 46337, 2136, 304, 4737, 1077, 505, 1077, 2162, 856, 7555, 264...
"Who else could it have been? Surely the gramophone record proves that. No, Bill: Congleton was right. His hatred of Rogerson was greater than his craving for drink. Year after year he had carried round that broken record, waiting and biding his time. And then at last he got his opportunity. How he did it we shall neve...	[ 1, 15546, 775, 1436, 433, 617, 1027, 30, 65288, 279, 23882, 78303, 3335, 36862, 430, 13, 2360, 11, 8766, 25, 7409, 15989, 574, 1314, 13, 5414, 35242, 315, 15617, 1293, 574, 7191, 1109, 813, 64804, 369, 7172, 13, 9941, 1306, 1060, 568,...
First of all, then, both Bissa-tee and myself verified the remarkable fact that man moults at will, seasonally as well as diurnally. This gift seems at first sight to place him apart from all the rest of nature as one of the luckiest of all created beings. Yet, when we reflect what pangs, let me say, a grasshopper ha...	[ 5451, 315, 682, 11, 1243, 11, 2225, 426, 22144, 12, 6684, 323, 7182, 24884, 279, 23649, 2144, 430, 893, 296, 11206, 2641, 520, 690, 11, 3280, 750, 439, 1664, 439, 1891, 399, 750, 13, 220, 1115, 8352, 5084, 520, 1176, 14254, 311, 203...
In 1824, while the Parramatta Institution was struggling towards destruction, an attempt was made with an establishment at Lake Macquarie, the Government reserving 10,000 acres of land there and establishing a mission under the auspices of the London Missionary Society with Rev. L. E. Threlkeld as superintendent. But a...	[ 644, 220, 10828, 19, 11, 1418, 279, 81630, 309, 33019, 43964, 574, 20558, 7119, 19814, 11, 459, 4879, 574, 1903, 449, 459, 21967, 520, 11940, 7553, 447, 67545, 11, 279, 10423, 594, 20073, 220, 605, 11, 931, 27464, 315, 4363, 1070, 323...
After two or three years of service in the city law department, I resigned my position and became the general attorney of the Chicago and North-Western Railway Company. It was with a good deal of hesitation and consideration, and after all sorts of advice, that I undertook that position. I was aware that my general v...	[ 6153, 1403, 477, 2380, 1667, 315, 2532, 304, 279, 3363, 2383, 9476, 11, 358, 40207, 856, 2361, 323, 6244, 279, 4689, 14065, 315, 279, 10780, 323, 4892, 61861, 944, 55556, 8351, 13, 220, 1102, 574, 449, 264, 1695, 3568, 315, 65437, 323...

"No, I don't blame you, but you've made a hell of a mess of everything by not playing up to me ever so little." He could not be cruel now. He knew that the action he outlined had been beyond Aileen's timorous nature. His gorge rose against the ogres who had surrounded her. He would gladly have strangled both Larrys, an...

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"Of my two sisters, Lillian and Agnes, Lillian, the younger, was recently married at the time but already involved in divorce proceedings which were to ruin her life. My brother-in-law, the respondent, was a man of magnificent physique and great administrative ability, employed in the Civil Service of the Dominion. B...

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In conversation with the commuter neighbor, who every evening walked about and smoked an after-dinner cigar in the yard at the right, John was frank about the whole lamentable business of his brother's defalcation. He wondered, he said, if he had not shut himself up with his studies too much, and neglected his brother...

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'Comrades!' cried an eager youthful voice. 'Attention, comrades! We have glorious news for you. We have won the battle for production! Returns now completed of the output of all classes of consumption goods show that the standard of living has risen by no less than 20 per cent over the past year. All over Oceania this ...

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The centre of attraction outside was Mt. Gambler, with its wonderful Blue Lake and the underground river. One could sail a long distance down the subterranean stream, which flowed seawards through a great, cave-like channel. The Blue Lake, the banks of which were 300ft. high, almost sheer, and the water 240ft. deep in ...

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Polly laughed with the rest at the time; but when she thought of it afterward, and wondered what her own mother would have said, if little Kitty had put such a question, she did n't find it cunning or funny, but ridiculous and unnatural. She felt so now about herself; and when her first petulance was over, resolved to ...

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His place flourished above all others. He was far more industrious, and kept his garden in better order, and was always ready to help anywhere and everywhere; besides, he was so fearless, he was really a great acquisition to our new settlement. But one day I was called to see his wife, who lay nearly senseless, the blo...

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And I saw a good deal of Raffles just then; it was, in fact, the one period at which I can remember his coming round to see me more frequently than I went round to him. Of course he would come at his own odd hours, often just as one was dressing to go out and dine, and I can even remember finding him there when I retur...

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Last evening I had an odd talk with my father that needs recording. He came in wobbling a candle, in a bed-gown, his chest exposed, but in spite of this very sober. I have been dimly conscious of him the last months, coming in and out of my fantasies. And WHAT fantasies! Myself hanging, bare save for a thin shift, f...

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"I have heard something of your mode of proceeding with the keepers of taverns and hostels, Sir Giles," the proud marquis said; "but this is the first occasion on which I have seen it put in practice,--and I am free to confess that you deal not over gently with them, if the present may be considered a specimen of your ...

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He treated with systematic negligence, the ettiquette that regulates the intercourse of persons of a certain class. He, every where, acted, in this respect, as if he were alone, or among familiar associates. The very appellations of Sir, and Madam, and Mister, were, in his apprehension, servile and ridiculous, and as c...

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For this Christmas was to be for him unlike any other Christmas. It was not mere beef and beer. If it celebrated the birth of the carpenter who was to be crucified, the ever recurring martyrdom of man, it was also a new birth, a piece of symbolism, compassionate humanity gathered together and lighting Christmas candle...

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"Be still, woman!" returned her husband, jerking the reins from her hand. "What think ye 'twould profit us to turn back to Salem village? I trow if there be one black beast here, there is a full herd of them there. There is naught left but to ride past it as best we may. Sit fast, an' listen you not to it, whatever it ...

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But our spirits very seldom flagged, and we contrived to make the time pass somehow. Lucia, whose face and hands were now browning deeply from continuous exposure to the rays of a torrid sun worked with Niâbon at dressmaking, for she had brought with her half a dozen bolts of print; and, as they sewed, they would somet...

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Now begins a new phase in his career. He had been the Bohemian, the strolling player, the bon camarado of bully-rooks and swindlers. He would take a new line of action. He would be the gentleman, the gamester, the man of fashion. He sailed in the "Dorset" yacht (which had on board the Duke of Leinster), and there he ma...

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"I gave you the other day," concluded Betty, "the symbol of a wheel, and the hub of the wheel is truth, and the spokes of the wheel are the various paths leading to truth. Now, no two spokes are identical, and no two start from the same place on the rim, but in that they all run straight and bind the rim to the hub the...

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The motor throttled down two hundred yards from shore and one of the young men dove flat over the edge. He swam at the aimless twisting board, steadied it, climbed slowly to his knees on it-- then got on his feet as the boat accelerated. Leaning back he swung his light vehicle ponderously from side to side in slow, b...

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Historians say, "The winter of 'seventy-four to 'seventy-five was a time of deep depression." But historians do not take little children into consideration. Deep depression? To three children on the prairie it was a time of glamour. There was not much to eat in the cupboard. There was little or no money in the fat...

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"But then, my dear fellow, I can prove the Invisible and follow the grades of it, and the modes by which it makes itself the Visible,--to a certain extent--but only to a certain extent. Beyond the provable limit I do not go. You, on the contrary, aided by the wings of imagination, outsoar that limit, and profess to fin...

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While Kennedy was questioning Manton I had been glancing through the script of the picture. My own connection with the movies had consisted largely of three attempts to sell stories of my own to the producers. Needless to remark I had not succeeded, in that regard falling in the class with some hundreds of thousands of...

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He drove back to London and was in bed before midnight. There was no raid, but he could not sleep. He wished he were in a house or flat where he could go to the kitchen and make himself a cup of tea, but his club bedroom had no such facilities and after an hour or two of lying awake he got up and looked in desperatio...

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At which Mary threw the letter on the table and laughed aloud. Hear how ill I am, but be sure not to take it to heart! Oh! it wasn't fair of him . . . it wasn't fair. He had her down and beaten, and he knew it: to such a letter there could be but one reply. Picking it up she re-read it, and for a moment alarm riddled h...

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It was on a coastal island a fortnight's sail from Port Darwin--a large island with a fragment of beach and the rest of its littoral mud and mangroves and oyster-beds--and at the time of our coming there was on the fragment of beach no one at all. But presently from the two-miles-distant mainland came numbers of bark c...

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December 22nd. A preposterous and provoking episode has delayed us to-day. We had marched about 2 hours when we sighted camels and the smoke of tents. We took them to be (as indeed they were) Arabs of the Mountain, the Jebel Druze, with flocks. I told you that we tried in Dumeir to get one of the Jebel Druze Arabs as a...

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'The front of Aunt Rosie's house was right on a street, but it had a fine garden at the back. It was the kind of house and the kind of street that she would live in. When my cage was first hung in the window I noticed two peculiar things. One was that the other window to the same room had a small mirror fixed outside o...

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Left alone Polly remained standing by the table, on which an array of tins was set--preserved salmon, sardines, condensed milk--their tops forced back to show their contents. Her heart was heavy as lead, and she felt a dull sense of injury as well. This hut her home!--to which she had so freely invited sister and frien...

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Derrick had suddenly remembered the strange phenomenon he had witnessed in the moonlight, and was curious to discover whether the multitude of gnats had their home in the cave. He walked back through the archway; several yards of the cave were now visible in the daylight. The floor was for the most part of hard volcani...

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There were other traps cunningly hidden on the way, but he avoided them all. At the end of the trail, he found the paunch, which had been poisoned and left on a favorite beat. He merely smelt it and passed on. Like the black, he was a smart tracker. He noticed the broken twig, the crushed blade of grass, and the distur...

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But Dorothy said it was not possible, for that she herself had never been in there; that the doors were always locked, and my lord's steward had the keys, she believed; at any rate, neither she nor James had ever seen them: so I said I would go back, and see if, after all, she was not hidden in the drawing-room, unknow...

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"We must apologise most humbly, your reverence," began Miusov, simpering affably, and speaking in a dignified and respectful tone. "Pardon us for having come alone without the gentleman you invited, Fyodor Pavlovitch. He felt obliged to decline the honour of your hospitality, and not without reason. In the reverend Fat...

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Lost in doubt and perplexity, her spirits were now nearly exhausted; and unable to form any conjecture concerning the person below, from what she had heard, besought him to acquaint her who he was, and what was his business. Unwilling that she should suffer even a transient suspense, Enrico, after some little preparati...

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Mrs. Dave Dyer snapped, "Honest? Do you call it honest to hold us up for every cent of pay they can get? I can't say that I've had any of them steal anything (though you might call it stealing to eat so much that a roast of beef hardly lasts three days), but just the same I don't intend to let them think they can put a...

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On the fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain ephemeral operations were apt to disturb, in their trifling way, the majestic calm of Egdon Heath. They were activities which, beside those of a town, a village, or even a farm, would have appeared as the ferment of stagnation merely, a creeping of the fle...

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"Toward the latter part of my attendance on Mrs. Macallan, a young widow lady named Mrs. Beauly--a cousin of Mr. Macallan's--came to stay at Gleninch. Mrs. Macallan was jealous of this lady; and she showed it in my presence only the day before her death, when Mr. Macallan came into her room to inquire how she had passe...

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And now by coach and mailman's bag it goes from town to town, And Conroy's Gap and Conroy's Creek have marked it `further down'. Beneath a sky of deepest blue where never cloud abides, A speck upon the waste of plain the lonely mailman rides. Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep He hails the...

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"I risked nine hundred francs," he continued, "but thread by thread I gathered the whole history of the Clamerans, Gaston's love-affair, his flight, and the stumbling of the horse ridden by Louis. I found also that about a year ago Louis returned, sold the chateau to a man named Fougeroux, whose wife, Mihonne, had a se...

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When he was well enough to bear the journey they left home for a watering-place on the Bay. There, on an open beach facing the Heads, Mahony lay with his hat pulled forward to shade his eyes, and with nothing to do but to scoop up handfuls of the fine coral sand and let it flow again, like liquid silk, through his fing...

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'Whatever trouble I have got myself into, I am alone to blame, sir,' Percy replied, 'I deserve it all, for repaying your unceasing kindness by ingratitude! And yet, I solemnly protest to you, sir, I could not help it! I embrace my fate, whatever it may be, with gladness; because it will remove me from all chance of eve...

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The barn was finished; a great big place it was, with hay-stalls on both sides and a threshing-floor in the middle. The shed and the other makeshift places were emptied now, and all the hay brought into the barn; the corn was reaped, dried in stacks, and carted in. Inger took up the carrots and turnips. All their crops...

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I agreed to this program, and as soon as we had finished our breakfast we went forth, making our way by Free School-lane and The Common to the marshes west of Gas House-road. From there we entered Black Boy-lane at the lower end, and slowly followed its windings, Thorndyke looking about him attentively, and occasionall...

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He lounged by the fire while she made coffee. A certain outward excitement died down in him, and he began to feel very cosy and tranquil and quietly talkative, so that when she brought the coffee and sat opposite him at the other side of the fire, they both plunged into chatter about the concert and music and other top...

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He then spoke of St. Peggotty's more domestic concerns. There were esoteric allusions here; professional similes, anecdotes, nicknames, and reminiscences which set some of the whiter heads shouting. But he was not wholly inaudible till he expounded his well-known views on the Pharmacopoeia Britannica, and, incidentally...

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Nevertheless he was a determined little devil, as she knew to her cost, and once he'd got an idea into his head not heaven nor hell nor Harriet would ever batter it out. And now he'd got into his head this idea of being lord and master, and Harriet's acknowledging him as such. Not just verbally. No. Not under the flag ...

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Of the signs of these Twelve that were chosen by the Christ shall I speak later: for in the nature of each of these men was there that which should be used to send forth parts of that great truth which should come into the world. If ye will ask me a little later, then shall I give you these meanings; but the signs may ...

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When a gap appeared overhead at last there was no blaze of light to make us blink, but a row of heads at each edge of the hole with nothing but another lantern somewhere in the gloom behind them. One by one we went up and they made way for us, closing in each time to scan the next-comer's face; and when we were all up...

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From that time there was a change in Warrigal. Not that he was aggressive or domineering. He was as peaceful and tractable as ever, but he was restless and discontented. Towards nightfall he sat in front of the house, listening intently and looking out into the bush. Now and again he threw back his head and uttered the...

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"The exterior crust has cooled. Inside that there is probably a semi- fluid sphere, and inside that again, possibly, the rigid body, the core of the earth. But I don't believe that that hole has been filled, simply because it must have been there to begin with. Granted also that the pull of gravitation is towards the c...

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Considering that Christianity has commonly been represented as almost the sole cause of the mitigation and final abolishment of slavery in Europe, it deserves special notice that the chief improvement in the condition of slaves at Rome took place at so early a period that Christianity could have absolutely no share in ...

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The planets, like the earth, move around the sun. Some of them are so far away as to be of no consequence and, like the stars, may be dismissed. But one or two are so close to the earth that they may turn out to be fit for business. The planet Mars is of special interest inasmuch as its surface shows traces of what ...

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My landing-place happened to be none of the best. After clearing the water, it required all Cleopatra's strength and activity to climb the bank. Having slipped into the saddle as he regained footing, I was lying flat against the side of his neck, to help his centre of gravity and give him a hold with his front feet, w...

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I turned and saw that Flora, whom, ten minutes before, I had established in the schoolroom with a sheet of white paper, a pencil, and a copy of nice "round o's," now presented herself to view at the open door. She expressed in her little way an extraordinary detachment from disagreeable duties, looking to me, however, ...

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And now after four years the sensitive, injured and pathetic little orphan had become a plump, rosy beauty of the Russian type, a woman of bold and determined character, proud and insolent. She had a good head for business, was acquisitive, saving and careful, and by fair means or foul had succeeded, it was said, in am...

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At a quarter to one she was out of the house. She walked along to Clarence Gate, then, feeling, she scarcely knew why, extremely defiant, she summoned a taxi. The taxi driver, of the colour of beetroot and smelling of mice, thought to himself cheerfully, "There's a pretty young piece." She was wearing a dress of plu...

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During the time the fleet was occupying the Basin, the Masters of the ships were constantly out making observations and sounding, partly for the necessities of the fleet and partly to throw dust in the eyes of the French; and on one occasion Cook had a narrow escape from capture, his men had to row for it to get away f...

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In the thirty-eighth year of my pastorate, and just twenty-one years after my brother pastor, the Reverend Sören Qvist of Vejlbye, was sentenced to death and beheaded for the murder of one of his servants, it happened that a beggar came to my door. He was an elderly man with grizzled hair, and walked with the aid of a ...

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This arrogant friar, of whom Petrarch has left us a vivid portrait, a red-faced, red-bearded man, with a fringe of red hair about his tonsure, short and squat of figure, dirty in his dress and habits, yet imbued with the pride of Lucifer despite his rags, thrust himself violently into the Council of Regency, demanding ...

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"Our friend the famous sculptor," he laughed. "The greatest man of his kind in the world. The friend of princes, the darling of all the ladies in England's fashionable drawing-rooms. The man who makes the income of a king, and spends it twice over. The man who ought to be rich, but is really poorer than the meanest cit...

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"No," I replied, "there is nothing of the magpie about me. I don't accumulate old things for the sake of forming a collection. I buy old furniture and use it. One must have furniture of some kind, old or new, and I prefer the old. It was made by men who knew all about it and who enjoyed making it and took their time. I...

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The Prince of Padoung succeeded _Thenkaya_, whether by the suffrages of the people or by usurpation on his part is not stated. He was noted for his wisdom and charitable disposition. He paid a visit to the King of Ava according to promise, and was so annoyed with the want of respect shown to him on his reception, that ...

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And now that Kenneth was relieved from the care of Jim, he could be much more serviceable to his uncle, and the days passed busily and cheerfully, the evenings peacefully. Although the father and mother regretted the absence of their son, it was impossible for the cousin to feel it otherwise than as a relief. And the p...

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Meanwhile, the native papers took the matter up and proved to nine points of decimals that the incident was wholly due to British arrogance and the neglect of public duty by an "overpaid alien hegemony," demonstrating among other things that the British are a race "whose crass materialism is an insult to the spiritual ...

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Saturday he spent in Southampton, receiving courtesies, conferring honours, and, with the Marquis de las Navas at his elbow for interpreter, speaking with the English gentlemen who had come to do him honour. On Sunday he went to Mass on foot. On. Monday, with a company of a thousand courtiers, guarded by three hundred ...

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A smell of molten tallow came up from the dean's candle butts and fused itself in Stephen's consciousness with the jingle of the words, bucket and lamp and lamp and bucket. The priest's voice, too, had a hard jingling tone. Stephen's mind halted by instinct, checked by the strange tone and the imagery and by the priest...

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You may be sure a by-job of this sort interfer'd with no other pursuit, or plan of life; which I led, in truth, with a modesty and reserve that was less the work of virtue than of exhausted novelty, a glut of pleasure, and easy circumstances, that made me indifferent to any engagements in which pleasure and profit were...

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And they were as different in personal appearance, as in mental qualities and disposition. Mompesson was the dashing eagle; Mitchell the sorry kite. Sir Francis was weakly, emaciated in frame; much given to sensual indulgence; and his body conformed to his timorous organization. His shrunken shanks scarcely sufficed to...

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In the two succeeding centuries, however, great changes had taken place, and many events had reduced the once powerful and splendid ancestors of Sir Emanfred to little more than a military dependance. The proud nature of the Knight shrunk from the consequences of the total ruin of his house; and, indignant at the disgr...

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"Let us see, now!" said Hanaud. He took the end of the arrow-shaft from one envelope, and the barb from his pocket, and fitted them together. The iron barb was loose now because the hole to receive it at the top of the arrow-shaft had been widened to take a nib. But the spoke was just about the right length. He laid th...

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Yes, certainly this is the sentimental nostalgia of the Past, for men were encumbered then as now, apprehension was no less, danger invigorating, sharp, poignant then as now. Only--yes, this for certain--London was both more casual and more dignified, the pace was slower, the claims to your attention fewer and less st...

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I stared; but I soon realised that the Major was quite in earnest. Glancing at the girl, I saw her smile faintly as I caught her eye; and I blushed, feeling that she read my thoughts in my face. Honestly, I was inclined to be vexed at the self-absorbed particularly about trifles shown by a man who had just narrowly esc...

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Lady Franks rose significantly and left the room, accompanied by Arthur's wife. Aaron knew, silently, that he was summoned to follow. His hostess had her eye on him this evening. But always postponing his obedience to the cool commands of women, he remained talking with his host in the library, and sipping _creme de ...

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Mr. Juniper asked Miss Maxwell if she could sing the song beginning with "Oh! whistle and I'll come to you, my lad!" at which the room rang with laughter, while Griselda replied that she had not yet learnt it, but would be happy to hear him sing it, or any other song agreeable to him. Juniper wanted no second asking. T...

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Kombo, when he beheld the monoliths standing out against the sky, cried aloud that "Debil-debil sat down there," and hid himself behind a bank of shrubs where he again assiduously repeated what he could remember of the Lord's Prayer. The air was very still; no wind stirred the tree-tops on the mountain side; neither hu...

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But is it ever possible to be really intimate with the working class? I shall have to discuss that later; I will only say here that I do not think it is possible. But undoubtedly it is easier in the North than it would be in the South to meet working-class people on approximately equal terms. It is fairly easy to live ...

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It should be noted, too, that while to us who come after, the great complex evolutionary movement of the two last centuries justly reveals itself as one and indivisible, a single grand cosmical drama, having many acts and many scenes, but all alike inspired by one informing and pervading unity, yet to those whose half ...

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It was after Skrebensky had gone that there sprang up between the mistress and the girl that strange awareness, then the unspoken intimacy that sometimes connects two people who may never even make each other's acquaintance. Before, they had always been good friends, in the undistinguished way of the class-room, with t...

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Madge and I buried them there on the shores of the desolate northern sea. They lie in one grave deep down beneath the yellow sand. Strange things may happen in the world around them. Empires may rise and may fall, dynasties may perish, great wars may come and go, but, heedless of it all, those two shall embrace each ot...

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"He is in the island, but he is unable to join us in the House. Captain Maris tried, and was unfortunately captured. He was handed over to me as the victor of the race, and that is why he is here. But Sir Edward must be still scouting around the outposts, and it is pretty certain that he won't find a way in. I'm afra...

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"No direct evidence, it is true. But the presumptive evidence is so strong that it is hardly needed. In the first place, Milly Saker saw her going down the hall in the direction of the left wing just before the murder was committed. Next day--this morning--the housekeeper sent Milly Saker out of the way before she coul...

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For all the daily business of life, then, each of us is mentally a distinct individual, though his ordinary means of communication with others is "telepathic." But frequently he wakes up to be a group-mind. Apart from this "waking of individuals together," if I may so call it, the group-mind has no existence; for its b...

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"Is it my fault?" asked the man. "Was it right to send those who are born of women to capture a spirit or a witch?--since no maid in whom warm blood flows can run up and down pyramids faced with smooth and shining stone, as flies run up and down a wall, which we saw this one do. Is it right to expect them to fight and ...

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There is a tragic side to the boundary rider's life, which renders his hermit-like existence objectionable to most men. He may be a fort-night or a month without seeing a soul; or, if illness overtakes him, or he meets with an accident, he has no one to nurse him or even to cook for him. He must shift for himself and t...

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As regards the "material life" I am sometimes rather hard up for meat, and my diet is principally oatcake and cheese, with the butter which we brought with us. Every evening I have my cigarette in a rocking-chair by the kitchen fire, having persuaded my friends that all Welshwomen smoke. My host accepted a cigarette th...

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"'It's got hold of my feet! It's got hold of my feet!' he screamed. His feet, had disappeared up to his boot-tops, and Captain Gannington caught him round the waist with his powerful left arm, gave a mighty heave, and the next instant had him free; but both his boot-soles had gone. For my part, I jumped madly from foot...

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In a sudden blind impotent fury, Tregarthen turned to the retainer who still was dazedly holding up the salver. From it Tregarthen took the sod with trembling hands. In all his life before he had never been in such a rage, and that is saying a great deal. He had intended to come here to-day and impress his people as he...

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In the meantime the more exceptional couple and the boy still lingered in the pavilion of flowers--an enchanted palace to their appreciative taste--Sue's usually pale cheeks reflecting the pink of the tinted roses at which she gazed; for the gay sights, the air, the music, and the excitement of a day's outing with Jude...

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"Yet you behold," continued the old alchemist, casting an inexpressibly mournful glance around the wretched apartment, "the way we live. Our food is insufficient and of bad quality; we never buy clothes; the rent of this hole is a mere nothing. What am I to think of the wretched girl who plunges me into this misery? ...

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But with Adolph Blum her secrets were safe. His mind was feudal; the rich and fortunate were also the privileged. These warm- blooded, quick-breathing people took chances,--followed impulses only dimly understandable to a boy who was wet and weather-chapped all the year; who waded in the mud fishing for cat, or lay i...

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I could entertain you at length upon my sensations as I walked between my guards, a man on the threshold of eternity, with hundreds of men and women gaping at me - men and women who would live for years to gape upon many another wretch in my position. The sun shone with a brilliance that to such eyes as mine was a ver...

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Rest, talk of rest to him who could not keep quiet even now. No, he glanced restlessly and uneasily about; he started if a door shut, or a rat or mouse ran behind the wainscoating. If he turned towards the wall, there he saw Inez's watchful eyes looking at him out of the gloom, as they used to do in life; he saw her da...

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In many respects the maps are similar, and give evidence of having been derived from the same source. From the fact that although admittedly French they contained names that looked like gallicized Portuguese, Major argued,* following Barbie du Bocage, that in all probability the original discovery was Portuguese becaus...

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Various artifices were adopted for successfully hunting the kangaroo, emu and dingo (wild dog). Regular chases would sometimes be organised in the winter, when the ground was soft and boggy, and the game could not travel fast; the kangaroo would then be fairly run down by the blacks, who for the time being would appear...

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Minnie remained straining out of the window for a minute. Then she drew her head back into the room again. She was dumbfounded. "Of course he is eccentric," she meditated. "But running about London--in the height of the season, too--in his socks!" A happy thought struck her. She hastily put her bonnet on, seized his sh...

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Never had her ignorance of life and literature so weighed on her as in reliving the short scene of her discomfiture. "It's no use trying to be anything in this place," she muttered to her pillow; and she shrivelled at the vision of vague metropolises, shining super-Nettletons, where girls in better clothes than Belle B...

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But it was prospective affluence. My actual possessions amounted to four shillings and sixpence; but it was all my own, for the half-crown that had been ear marked for rent was now available for food. Still, this was Monday morning and wages were payable on Saturday night, so I should have to manage on nine pence a day...

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'There is no doubt, Sir, whatsoever that he is perfectly well. Three different persons--unexceptionable witnesses--can depose to having seen him last night, and he had a long conference with Captain Lake, who is by this time making his deposition. It is with respect to the other little matter--the execution of the deed...

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"After his death I brooded over my grief till I became nearly frenzied. I could not banish the thought that but for my rashness and foolishness in taking her from her home my wife might still have been living. To myself I seemed little short of a murderer. I left the camp and wandered, night and day, afar into the moun...

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"Who else could it have been? Surely the gramophone record proves that. No, Bill: Congleton was right. His hatred of Rogerson was greater than his craving for drink. Year after year he had carried round that broken record, waiting and biding his time. And then at last he got his opportunity. How he did it we shall neve...

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First of all, then, both Bissa-tee and myself verified the remarkable fact that man moults at will, seasonally as well as diurnally. This gift seems at first sight to place him apart from all the rest of nature as one of the luckiest of all created beings. Yet, when we reflect what pangs, let me say, a grasshopper ha...

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In 1824, while the Parramatta Institution was struggling towards destruction, an attempt was made with an establishment at Lake Macquarie, the Government reserving 10,000 acres of land there and establishing a mission under the auspices of the London Missionary Society with Rev. L. E. Threlkeld as superintendent. But a...

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After two or three years of service in the city law department, I resigned my position and became the general attorney of the Chicago and North-Western Railway Company. It was with a good deal of hesitation and consideration, and after all sorts of advice, that I undertook that position. I was aware that my general v...

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