JoeyLLM/Project_Gutenberg_Australia · Datasets at Hugging Face

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"I am to slip it into your pocket when you least expect it, sir. You know that I always take a little turn behind the scenes, in the course of the evening, and I often go with my daughter to the ballet-foyer, which I am entitled to do, as her mother; I bring her her shoes, when the ballet is about to begin...in fact, I...	[ 7189, 1097, 311, 21818, 433, 1139, 701, 18301, 994, 499, 3325, 1755, 433, 11, 28146, 13, 1472, 1440, 430, 358, 2744, 1935, 264, 2697, 2543, 4920, 279, 16451, 11, 304, 279, 3388, 315, 279, 11714, 11, 323, 358, 3629, 733, 449, 856, 10...
So, through the purple depths and the colorful desert, and the infinite nothing of distance, she peered into her own soul. Long she gazed, with wide eyes, and then with eyes tight shut. She saw the same with both. She was now a woman of twenty-two, older really than her exact age in years. She wanted to live her own li...	[ 4516, 11, 1555, 279, 25977, 43957, 323, 279, 34966, 24521, 11, 323, 279, 24746, 4400, 315, 6138, 11, 1364, 1069, 12616, 1139, 1077, 1866, 13836, 13, 5843, 1364, 342, 28109, 11, 449, 7029, 6548, 11, 323, 1243, 449, 6548, 10508, 9495, 1...
All Oxford, by the time Fanny got back to the inn where she had lunched, was having tea. She had said good-bye to Dwight at the foot of his staircase, alleging an engagement as she smiled a smile that couldn't but be bleak--it was indeed, she explained, because of this engagement, that she was there that day, and havin...	[ 2460, 26275, 11, 555, 279, 892, 435, 13184, 2751, 1203, 311, 279, 6301, 1405, 1364, 1047, 326, 10880, 11, 574, 3515, 15600, 13, 3005, 1047, 1071, 1695, 1481, 9188, 311, 72845, 520, 279, 4579, 315, 813, 62862, 11, 62546, 459, 20392, 43...
As though it had yielded itself to the inevitable, the meteorite gave no further trouble. It was gradually lowered into the hold and wedged so tightly into position that it was impossible for it to move, however much the ship rolled or pitched. Fortunate it was this work was so well done, for when the return journey wa...	[ 2170, 3582, 433, 1047, 58487, 5196, 311, 279, 31352, 11, 279, 42142, 635, 6688, 912, 4726, 12544, 13, 1102, 574, 27115, 39920, 1139, 279, 3412, 323, 11077, 3640, 779, 40069, 1139, 2361, 430, 433, 574, 12266, 369, 433, 311, 3351, 11, 4...
'Unknown, with or without a secret, it does not matter,' said Rhoda, 'he is like a stone fallen into a pond round which minnows swarm. Like minnows, we who had been shooting this way, that way, all shot round him when he came. Like minnows, conscious of the presence of a great stone, we undulate and eddy contentedly....	[ 6, 14109, 11, 449, 477, 2085, 264, 6367, 11, 433, 1587, 539, 5030, 2965, 1071, 18452, 14320, 11, 364, 383, 374, 1093, 264, 9998, 21536, 1139, 264, 36670, 4883, 902, 1332, 3409, 82, 61941, 13, 220, 9086, 1332, 3409, 82, 11, 584, 889,...
We had crossed an old bridge thrown over the Douve and were entering the part of the park called the Oak Grove, The oaks here were centuries old. Autumn had already shrivelled their tawny leaves, and their high branches, black and contorted, looked like horrid heads of hair, mingled with quaint reptiles such as the anc...	[ 1687, 1047, 28129, 459, 2362, 14497, 15338, 927, 279, 17440, 588, 323, 1051, 16661, 279, 961, 315, 279, 6246, 2663, 279, 18787, 41234, 11, 578, 297, 10011, 1618, 1051, 24552, 2362, 13, 60902, 1047, 2736, 14362, 344, 15556, 872, 259, 675...
On October 25, 1828, one William Edden, a market-gardener, did not come home at night. His wife rushed into the neighbouring village, announcing that she had seen her husband's ghost; that he had a hammer, or some such instrument, in his hand; that she knew he had been hammered to death on the road by a man whose name...	[ 1966, 6664, 220, 914, 11, 220, 10828, 23, 11, 832, 12656, 469, 11025, 11, 264, 3157, 2427, 569, 804, 11, 1550, 539, 2586, 2162, 520, 3814, 13, 220, 5414, 7555, 33341, 1139, 279, 62027, 14458, 11, 38787, 430, 1364, 1047, 3970, 1077, ...
This protection, indeed, produced as much water as any educational exhortations. Out of school hours she taught Susie every game she knew and some she didn't; instructed her in dressing and undressing dolls; delivered her from the Italian greyhound; helped her to burn her cheeks cooking cocoanut ice and toffee; and pr...	[ 2028, 9313, 11, 13118, 11, 9124, 439, 1790, 3090, 439, 904, 16627, 506, 22780, 811, 13, 220, 4470, 315, 2978, 4207, 1364, 15972, 16687, 648, 1475, 1847, 1364, 7020, 323, 1063, 1364, 3287, 956, 26, 42075, 1077, 304, 32623, 323, 2073, 5...
The good bargain she had made for her wheat kept her in good humour the whole of her way home; but when she got home things began to get wrong with her. When she got to her own gate the cob wouldn't stand while she opened it. She had had that cob for five years, and every time she came home on him she had tried to open...	[ 791, 1695, 45663, 1364, 1047, 1903, 369, 1077, 34153, 8774, 1077, 304, 1695, 58469, 279, 4459, 315, 1077, 1648, 2162, 26, 719, 994, 1364, 2751, 2162, 2574, 6137, 311, 636, 5076, 449, 1077, 13, 3277, 1364, 2751, 311, 1077, 1866, 18618, ...
They'd been there near two hours, and the way their predicament come about was easy enough. Sol had rode too close to the edge of the ravine while trying to turn the stampeding herd, and the ground being slippery and giving no footing, the horse had slipped over the edge, and at the speed he'd been going, had rolled ov...	[ 7009, 4265, 1027, 1070, 3221, 1403, 4207, 11, 323, 279, 1648, 872, 79434, 2908, 2586, 922, 574, 4228, 3403, 13, 11730, 1047, 41761, 2288, 3345, 311, 279, 6964, 315, 279, 43643, 483, 1418, 4560, 311, 2543, 279, 21899, 16490, 59213, 11, ...
There was no difficulty about the treatment. Pottermack simply wrapped the mummy in several thicknesses of wet rag, poured a can of water over it, and, having enclosed it in an outer covering of tarpaulin, left it to macerate for forty-eight hours. When, at the end of that time, he uncovered it, he was at once encourag...	[ 3947, 574, 912, 17250, 922, 279, 6514, 13, 14020, 5098, 474, 5042, 20037, 279, 296, 8742, 304, 3892, 26839, 288, 315, 14739, 21108, 11, 44033, 264, 649, 315, 3090, 927, 433, 11, 323, 11, 3515, 44910, 433, 304, 459, 16335, 18702, 315, ...
Mr. Clevely seemed pleased with the compliment thus paid his favourite hobby, and said to Mr. Burton, "I shall never make a man of you, Burton; but this young gentleman shows some promise. What will he say to my half-hundred beauties, if he thinks so well of these, from which they have been drafted? I'll show him somet...	[ 12555, 13, 356, 3374, 88, 9508, 18949, 449, 279, 32241, 8617, 7318, 813, 19214, 32628, 11, 323, 1071, 311, 4491, 13, 54755, 11, 330, 40, 4985, 2646, 1304, 264, 893, 315, 499, 11, 54755, 26, 719, 420, 3995, 46229, 5039, 1063, 11471, ...
"I did suggest that to him. I urged it. But he made me see that he was quite right not to. It would have placed you in an impossible position. What had happened was this: the Terrys did succeed in entering the Ahbor Valley. They seemed to have undergone frightful hardships, and nobody knows how they found the way, but ...	[ 7189, 1550, 4284, 430, 311, 1461, 13, 358, 28932, 433, 13, 2030, 568, 1903, 757, 1518, 430, 568, 574, 5115, 1314, 539, 311, 13, 1102, 1053, 617, 9277, 499, 304, 459, 12266, 2361, 13, 3639, 1047, 7077, 574, 420, 25, 279, 18122, 1065,...
She stood by the sundial, where the shadow was an hour behind its time, and looked into the eye of the sun over the fruit trees beyond the yew hedges. If she married him, there would be children--without them it would not be possible. She saw frankly-- or thought she did--where she stood in the matter of sex. What s...	[ 8100, 14980, 555, 279, 51682, 532, 11, 1405, 279, 12737, 574, 459, 6596, 4920, 1202, 892, 11, 323, 7111, 1139, 279, 8071, 315, 279, 7160, 927, 279, 14098, 12690, 7953, 279, 379, 365, 305, 17327, 13, 220, 1442, 1364, 12502, 1461, 11, ...
"But now the affair becomes even more complex; his jealous torments reach a climax, and those same two questions torture his fevered brain more and more: 'If I repay Katerina Ivanovna, where can I find the means to go off with Grushenka?' If he behaved wildly, drank, and made disturbances in the taverns in the course o...	[ 42513, 1457, 279, 31017, 9221, 1524, 810, 6485, 26, 813, 41690, 5801, 1392, 5662, 264, 71295, 11, 323, 1884, 1890, 1403, 4860, 30667, 813, 34653, 291, 8271, 810, 323, 810, 25, 364, 2746, 358, 54438, 735, 977, 2259, 42521, 869, 3458, 1...
Dad glanced round and saw the steer coming. "Way! Way!" he cried to one of the horses (Captain, a newly broken colt) as he was throwing a back-hand across the other. But Captain was nervous. He snorted and turned his head just in time to see the steer collide with the dray. That was enough. Before Dad could reach ...	[ 35, 329, 65657, 4883, 323, 5602, 279, 49715, 5108, 13, 220, 330, 36154, 0, 220, 12424, 9135, 568, 39169, 311, 832, 315, 279, 27928, 320, 62158, 11, 264, 13945, 11102, 1400, 83, 8, 439, 568, 574, 21939, 264, 1203, 25417, 4028, 279, 1...
"Ah, father, I will not argue with you tonight," laughed Anthony. "You are not a trader. The father is opposed to all this," he explained. "He spends his time here making it as easy as he can for those who are gathered in by the raiders. I will show you his good works tomorrow. They are, well--remarkable. I co-ope...	[ 1, 25797, 11, 7126, 11, 358, 690, 539, 18046, 449, 499, 18396, 1359, 32627, 21353, 13, 330, 2675, 527, 539, 264, 45465, 13, 220, 578, 7126, 374, 16475, 311, 682, 420, 1359, 568, 11497, 13, 220, 330, 1548, 38202, 813, 892, 1618, 3339...
Mr. Giles Medlicot, though at Gangoil he was still spoken of as a new-comer, had already been located for nearly two years on the land which he had purchased immediately on his coming to the colony. He had come out direct from England with the intention of growing sugar, and, whether successful or not in making money, ...	[ 12555, 13, 85931, 3344, 416, 354, 11, 3582, 520, 480, 5281, 321, 568, 574, 2103, 22066, 315, 439, 264, 502, 11733, 261, 11, 1047, 2736, 1027, 7559, 369, 7154, 1403, 1667, 389, 279, 4363, 902, 568, 1047, 15075, 7214, 389, 813, 5108, ...
Leaning his arms on the top rail of a fence, he looked across the slope at the Flat, now hushed and still as the encampment of a sleeping army. Beyond, the bush shimmered palely grey--in his younger years he had been used, on a night like this when the moon sailed full and free, to take his gun and go opossuming. Those...	[ 2356, 44159, 813, 11977, 389, 279, 1948, 13881, 315, 264, 25675, 11, 568, 7111, 4028, 279, 31332, 520, 279, 24492, 11, 1457, 305, 53078, 323, 2103, 439, 279, 3289, 1141, 479, 315, 264, 21811, 13695, 13, 31886, 11, 279, 30773, 76461, 2...
Meanwhile, she became conscious, as she stood at the window, of an extraordinary tingling and vibration all over her, as if she were made of a thousand wires upon which some breeze or errant fingers were playing scales. Now her toes tingled; now her marrow. She had the queerest sensations about the thigh bones. Her hai...	[ 26054, 11, 1364, 6244, 17371, 11, 439, 1364, 14980, 520, 279, 3321, 11, 315, 459, 24674, 43327, 2785, 323, 48913, 682, 927, 1077, 11, 439, 422, 1364, 1051, 1903, 315, 264, 16579, 36108, 5304, 902, 1063, 46385, 477, 1886, 519, 19779, 1...
The best description of his person and standing comes from this same source. 'He is about forty-six years old (this report was read in 1519), very handsome, learned, extremely eloquent, of vast ability, and indefatigable. He alone transacts the same business which occupies all the magistracies, offices and councils of ...	[ 791, 1888, 4096, 315, 813, 1732, 323, 11509, 4131, 505, 420, 1890, 2592, 13, 364, 1548, 374, 922, 36498, 55541, 1667, 2362, 320, 576, 1934, 574, 1373, 304, 220, 9690, 24, 705, 1633, 44877, 11, 9687, 11, 9193, 64235, 17187, 11, 315, ...
"An incalculable amount of damage," said Mrs. Earlsley. "Several people were drowned at Longford and Perth, and a great number had to be taken off the roofs of the houses, in boats. I understand, too, that a great many sheep and cattle have been drowned and swept away; and only think the simplest remedy for all this, t...	[ 1, 2127, 3709, 278, 3395, 481, 3392, 315, 5674, 1359, 1071, 18083, 13, 6952, 4835, 3258, 13, 330, 35862, 1274, 1051, 74995, 520, 5843, 8350, 323, 50544, 11, 323, 264, 2294, 1396, 1047, 311, 387, 4529, 1022, 279, 77395, 315, 279, 15316...
But after all, you know, all the time you can spare on your way back should be spent in driving round in this good old province of Ontario--or Upper Canada, as they used to call it. It's the part of Canada most connected with your country and your history and everything. You drive along the St. Lawrence and lake highwa...	[ 4071, 1306, 682, 11, 499, 1440, 11, 682, 279, 892, 499, 649, 24804, 389, 701, 1648, 1203, 1288, 387, 7543, 304, 10043, 4883, 304, 420, 1695, 2362, 17271, 315, 21193, 313, 269, 31714, 7008, 11, 439, 814, 1511, 311, 1650, 433, 13, 110...
Clarissa looked at Sir William, talking to Richard. He did not look like a boy--not in the least like a boy. She had once gone with some one to ask his advice. He had been perfectly right; extremely sensible. But Heavens--what a relief to get out to the street again! There was some poor wretch sobbing, she remembe...	[ 100069, 22144, 7111, 520, 17177, 12656, 11, 7556, 311, 12131, 13, 220, 1283, 1550, 539, 1427, 1093, 264, 8334, 313, 1962, 304, 279, 3325, 1093, 264, 8334, 13, 220, 3005, 1047, 3131, 8208, 449, 1063, 832, 311, 2610, 813, 9650, 13, 220,...
Curiously enough, while all the other modes of formal expression in poetry, rhythm and metre, the recurrent quantities and syllabic arrangement, as well as the caesural pause, came to us from the distant East and are to be found in the Vedas in India, rhyme was invented in the distant West. The Irish first used alliter...	[ 17119, 13610, 3403, 11, 1418, 682, 279, 1023, 20362, 315, 16287, 7645, 304, 32349, 11, 37390, 323, 82673, 11, 279, 65174, 33776, 323, 48704, 69391, 27204, 11, 439, 1664, 439, 279, 2211, 288, 4269, 18579, 11, 3782, 311, 603, 505, 279, ...
"There was the handkerchief, planted, as I had no doubt; but could not prove; the name stamped on it was Belfield's, but any one can get a rubber stamp made. Then it was stained with blood, as handkerchiefs often are; that blood might or might not be human blood; it did not seem to matter a straw whether it was or not....	[ 25938, 574, 279, 1450, 7197, 62626, 11, 39441, 11, 439, 358, 1047, 912, 10712, 26, 719, 1436, 539, 12391, 26, 279, 836, 65139, 389, 433, 574, 426, 491, 823, 596, 11, 719, 904, 832, 649, 636, 264, 23506, 21899, 1903, 13, 5112, 433, ...
In half an hour, when the boat was hidden from the view of those on board the brigantine, the natives, who outnumbered the whites two to one, at a signal from their leader suddenly threw themselves upon the unsuspecting seamen who were rowing and threw every one of them overboard. The mate, a small, active man, managed...	[ 644, 4376, 459, 6596, 11, 994, 279, 15688, 574, 8340, 505, 279, 1684, 315, 1884, 389, 4580, 279, 55912, 39457, 11, 279, 68473, 11, 889, 85692, 291, 279, 22632, 1403, 311, 832, 11, 520, 264, 8450, 505, 872, 7808, 15187, 22982, 5694, ...
"Nearly a thousand years after the great war, our ancestors, who had multiplied in numbers and increased in knowledge, were able to construct suits in which they could explore the surface of our world, breathing air which was concentrated in tanks they carried with them. While searching the ruins of the ancient capital...	[ 1, 64445, 264, 16579, 1667, 1306, 279, 2294, 4208, 11, 1057, 38618, 11, 889, 1047, 56016, 304, 5219, 323, 7319, 304, 6677, 11, 1051, 3025, 311, 9429, 29076, 304, 902, 814, 1436, 13488, 279, 7479, 315, 1057, 1917, 11, 27027, 3805, 902,...
Then the jolting and rumbling began anew. No one else got in, and when they had passed the only two landmarks she knew--the leprous Chinaman's hut and the market garden of Ah Chow, who twice a week jaunted at a half-trot to the township with his hanging baskets, to supply people with vegetables--when they had passed th...	[ 12487, 279, 503, 337, 1303, 323, 14322, 9894, 6137, 93392, 13, 2360, 832, 775, 2751, 304, 11, 323, 994, 814, 1047, 5946, 279, 1193, 1403, 61024, 1364, 7020, 313, 1820, 514, 79, 27620, 49335, 13005, 596, 76979, 323, 279, 3157, 13863, 3...
Notwithstanding the change in Morel's point of view with regard to the consequences of his behaviour, albeit that behaviour would have seemed to him abominable two months earlier, when he was passionately in love with Jupien's niece, whereas during the last fortnight he had never ceased to assure himself that the same ...	[ 2688, 50044, 279, 2349, 304, 4497, 75, 596, 1486, 315, 1684, 449, 5363, 311, 279, 16296, 315, 813, 17432, 11, 43169, 430, 17432, 1053, 617, 9508, 311, 1461, 671, 8129, 481, 1403, 4038, 6931, 11, 994, 568, 574, 92925, 304, 3021, 449, ...
At last he sought refuge in an artifice. He saw Lydia etherealised, de-carnalised; she was Miranda; _she_ might have been _his_ redemptress. He pictured her as she had looked when Dick Jackson was speaking to her. She had held back; _she_ had shown the man that contempt which Len should have shown him. Baseness had att...	[ 1688, 1566, 568, 16495, 14850, 304, 459, 1989, 22660, 13, 1283, 5602, 92306, 8537, 44353, 4147, 11, 409, 1824, 1923, 278, 4147, 26, 1364, 574, 59414, 26, 721, 32158, 62, 2643, 617, 1027, 721, 26301, 62, 2579, 21643, 676, 13, 1283, 426...
'Well, first of all, Major Smart is not so ill as the newspapers report him to be. He is like some of our prominent politicians, who are taken ill when they want to be quiet, and exclude callers while they prepare a speech, or think out some plan of campaign. Second, Mooney Peglar is not the family lawyer. If the Major...	[ 6, 11649, 11, 1176, 315, 682, 11, 17559, 16147, 374, 539, 779, 5986, 439, 279, 32594, 1934, 1461, 311, 387, 13, 1283, 374, 1093, 1063, 315, 1057, 21102, 19287, 11, 889, 527, 4529, 5986, 994, 814, 1390, 311, 387, 11594, 11, 323, 2242...
"It seems more likely," the old lady said dryly, "that some one has a grudge against the members of your party. As for your believing that this second affair is murder too, listen to what I have to say, and then tell me what you think." She sat down on the sofa. "Come," she went on, "draw up that chair and stop pacing....	[ 12348, 5084, 810, 4461, 1359, 279, 2362, 17240, 1071, 9235, 398, 11, 330, 9210, 1063, 832, 706, 264, 1099, 20132, 2403, 279, 3697, 315, 701, 4717, 13, 1666, 369, 701, 35090, 430, 420, 2132, 31017, 374, 10102, 2288, 11, 9020, 311, 1148...
The other replied that he opposed Tariff Reform because he believed it would ruin the country. Barrington inquired if he were a supporter of Socialism. The man said he was not, and when further questioned he said that he believed if it were ever adopted it would bring black ruin upon the country - he believed this be...	[ 791, 1023, 20592, 430, 568, 16475, 24912, 3168, 40365, 1606, 568, 11846, 433, 1053, 38339, 279, 3224, 13, 220, 32817, 4910, 304, 3004, 422, 568, 1051, 264, 37563, 315, 9983, 2191, 13, 220, 578, 893, 1071, 568, 574, 539, 11, 323, 994, ...
When they reached the forge house, they found old Mr. Furlonger stretched out on two chairs, resting. As a senior member of the Club and one of its founders, he had with a few other elders headed the procession to and from the church service which preceded the festivities, and he still wore, pinned to his coat, a huge ...	[ 4599, 814, 8813, 279, 57728, 3838, 11, 814, 1766, 2362, 4491, 13, 435, 1103, 647, 261, 41398, 704, 389, 1403, 26993, 11, 41219, 13, 1666, 264, 10195, 4562, 315, 279, 10349, 323, 832, 315, 1202, 48727, 11, 568, 1047, 449, 264, 2478, ...
The reign of terror, it may be supposed, had now reached its acme. The two old ladies were both lying dead at different points on the staircase, and, as usual, no conjecture could be made as to the nature of the offense which they had given; but that the murder WAS a vindictive one, the usual evidence remained behind, ...	[ 791, 31402, 315, 8818, 11, 433, 1253, 387, 10171, 11, 1047, 1457, 8813, 1202, 1645, 2727, 13, 578, 1403, 2362, 23628, 1051, 2225, 21078, 5710, 520, 2204, 3585, 389, 279, 62862, 11, 323, 11, 439, 13783, 11, 912, 87015, 554, 1436, 387, ...
Besides the water and the glucose, the must likewise contains quite an appreciable amount of those important bodies, the various acids. These consist of tartaric acid, so frequently met with all through the vegetable world; of malic acid, which is the acid almost distinctive of apples; of tannic acid or "tannin," and o...	[ 52555, 279, 3090, 323, 279, 34323, 11, 279, 2011, 39022, 5727, 5115, 459, 9989, 2205, 3392, 315, 1884, 3062, 13162, 11, 279, 5370, 33969, 13, 4314, 6824, 315, 45915, 277, 292, 13935, 11, 779, 14134, 2322, 449, 682, 1555, 279, 36581, 1...
My animals then had to be brought in contact with diseased stock. This was done by allowing them: (1) to use the common pastures at Pusa, on which diseased cattle sometimes grazed, and (2) to come in direct contact with foot-and-mouth disease. This latter was easy, as my small farmyard was only separated from one of th...	[ 5159, 10099, 1243, 1047, 311, 387, 7263, 304, 3729, 449, 6759, 1503, 5708, 13, 1115, 574, 2884, 555, 10923, 1124, 25, 320, 16, 8, 311, 1005, 279, 4279, 3347, 1439, 520, 393, 31853, 11, 389, 902, 6759, 1503, 36952, 7170, 51933, 291, ...
Now I must tell you something very very striking. The church on the extreme point of the Kara D., at which I worked for 2 days before R. came, has near it some great rocks and on the rocks I found a very queer inscription. The more I looked at it the queerer it became and the less I thought It could be Christian or any...	[ 7184, 358, 2011, 3371, 499, 2555, 1633, 1633, 21933, 13, 578, 8993, 389, 279, 14560, 1486, 315, 279, 79450, 423, 2637, 520, 902, 358, 6575, 369, 220, 17, 2919, 1603, 432, 13, 3782, 11, 706, 3221, 433, 1063, 2294, 23902, 323, 389, 27...
"The first thing that I should advise you to do when you have determined to emigrate is to turn into money all the property that you do not intend to take out with you; and, in doing this, bear in mind that your great object is to change articles of luxury and finery, which are misplaced and often worse than useless in...	[ 10227, 1176, 3245, 430, 358, 1288, 32113, 499, 311, 656, 994, 499, 617, 11075, 311, 991, 35579, 374, 311, 2543, 1139, 3300, 682, 279, 3424, 430, 499, 656, 539, 30730, 311, 1935, 704, 449, 499, 26, 323, 11, 304, 3815, 420, 11, 11984,...
And it was as if nothing affected people in those days. They threw themselves blindly into the Impossible, and accomplished the Unbelievable. If anyone succumbed in the struggle--and that happened often--another would come and take his place. Youth was in the race; the unknown, the untried, the unheard-of, was in th...	[ 3112, 433, 574, 439, 422, 4400, 11754, 1274, 304, 1884, 2919, 13, 220, 2435, 22982, 5694, 89447, 1139, 279, 83752, 11, 323, 27332, 279, 1252, 32898, 24694, 13, 220, 1442, 5606, 20639, 99696, 304, 279, 14993, 313, 438, 430, 7077, 3629, ...
Fred Vaughn had returned, and put the question to which she had once decided to answer, "Yes, thank you," but now she said, "No, thank you," kindly but steadily, for when the time came, her courage failed her, and she found that something more than money and position was needed to satisfy the new longing that filled he...	[ 75696, 64055, 77, 1047, 6052, 11, 323, 2231, 279, 3488, 311, 902, 1364, 1047, 3131, 6773, 311, 4320, 11, 330, 9642, 11, 9901, 499, 1359, 719, 1457, 1364, 1071, 11, 330, 2822, 11, 9901, 499, 1359, 47626, 719, 43071, 11, 369, 994, 279...
All this manual work was entered into rather as sport than as toil, for it had never been a tyranny. The most serious attention of every member was given to very different matters. The younger islanders spent much time in the library and the lab., absorbing the culture of the inferior species. The elders were concerned...	[ 2460, 420, 11630, 990, 574, 10862, 1139, 4856, 439, 10775, 1109, 439, 311, 321, 11, 369, 433, 1047, 2646, 1027, 264, 78001, 13, 578, 1455, 6129, 6666, 315, 1475, 4562, 574, 2728, 311, 1633, 2204, 13146, 13, 578, 14992, 13218, 388, 754...
It is difficult, if not impossible, now to discover the extent or nature of the assistance which Dampier obtained. The "copy" of the voyage as printed does not appear to exist, and the Sloane Manuscript account of it is in the clear script of a copyist, the marginal notes only being in Dampier's hand. The manuscript is...	[ 2181, 374, 5107, 11, 422, 539, 12266, 11, 1457, 311, 7142, 279, 13112, 477, 7138, 315, 279, 13291, 902, 423, 1141, 1291, 12457, 13, 578, 330, 8728, 1, 315, 279, 45640, 439, 17124, 1587, 539, 5101, 311, 3073, 11, 323, 279, 26685, 219...
Matravers took his leave with a sense of relief. Their farewell had been cordial enough, but unemotional. Yet even he, ignorant of women and their ways as he was, was conscious that they had entered together upon a new phase of their knowledge of each other. The touch of their fingers, the few conventional words which ...	[ 11836, 81, 22292, 3952, 813, 5387, 449, 264, 5647, 315, 16337, 13, 11205, 72643, 1047, 1027, 23125, 532, 3403, 11, 719, 653, 336, 41964, 13, 14968, 1524, 568, 11, 48080, 315, 3278, 323, 872, 5627, 439, 568, 574, 11, 574, 17371, 430, ...
Coming down from Sacramento on the Capital the other night, I found on a centre table a pamphlet advertisement of an Accident Insurance Company. It interested me a good deal, with its General Accidents, and Hazardous Tables, and Extra Hazardous furniture of the same description, and I would like to know something more ...	[ 57789, 1523, 505, 41334, 389, 279, 18880, 279, 1023, 3814, 11, 358, 1766, 389, 264, 12541, 2007, 264, 75931, 1169, 33789, 315, 459, 76604, 22413, 8351, 13, 1102, 8173, 757, 264, 1695, 3568, 11, 449, 1202, 3331, 11683, 7024, 11, 323, 6...
But there were no such obstinate entrenchments in the face or the manner of Henry Marsh. He was a handsome boy, who looked brightly and spoke brightly, and evidently did not regard his tutor as a hostile force that had been brought against him. He was what some people would have called, oddly enough, old-fashioned; chi...	[ 4071, 1070, 1051, 912, 1778, 18345, 3357, 1218, 6793, 1392, 304, 279, 3663, 477, 279, 11827, 315, 18063, 40163, 13, 1283, 574, 264, 44877, 8334, 11, 889, 7111, 76389, 323, 12570, 76389, 11, 323, 67170, 1550, 539, 5363, 813, 26370, 439, ...
'Some one left here last night, I think, Miss,' said Mary Quince, with a mysterious nod, one morning. ''Twas two o'clock, and I was bad with the toothache, and went down to get a pinch o' red pepper--leaving the candle a-light here lest you should awake. When I was coming up--as I was crossing the lobby, at the far end...	[ 13575, 638, 832, 2163, 1618, 1566, 3814, 11, 358, 1781, 11, 9083, 2965, 1071, 10455, 3489, 1736, 11, 449, 264, 26454, 16387, 11, 832, 6693, 13, 3436, 51, 16514, 1403, 297, 63510, 11, 323, 358, 574, 3958, 449, 279, 26588, 1815, 11, 3...
Her exclamations at the sight of the black duck were so sincere in their wonder and admiration that contrition at his weak-mindedness was, for the moment at least, forced from his thoughts. And for a long time it did not return. Urged by her eager questions and evident real interest he exhibited his finished duck, th...	[ 21364, 81384, 309, 811, 520, 279, 14254, 315, 279, 3776, 37085, 1051, 779, 49424, 304, 872, 5895, 323, 66939, 430, 6155, 684, 520, 813, 7621, 34423, 2136, 574, 11, 369, 279, 4545, 520, 3325, 11, 9770, 505, 813, 11555, 13, 220, 1628, ...
It is a keen, frosty morning in June--the midwinter of Australia--and as the red sun bursts through the sea-rim, a gentle land breeze creeps softly down from the mountain forest of gums and iron-barks, and blows away the mists that, all through a night of cloudless calm, have laid heavily upon the surface of the sleepi...	[ 2181, 374, 264, 27989, 11, 45834, 88, 6693, 304, 5651, 313, 1820, 5209, 84028, 315, 8494, 313, 438, 439, 279, 2579, 7160, 66801, 1555, 279, 9581, 3880, 318, 11, 264, 22443, 4363, 46385, 1922, 7270, 57150, 1523, 505, 279, 16700, 13952, ...
In this pleasant place, which of course I knew to be the hall of the Guest House, three young women were flitting to and fro. As they were the first of the sex I had seen on this eventful morning, I naturally looked at them very attentively, and found them at least as good as the gardens, the architecture, and the mal...	[ 644, 420, 24729, 2035, 11, 902, 315, 3388, 358, 7020, 311, 387, 279, 14321, 315, 279, 27307, 4783, 11, 2380, 3995, 3278, 1051, 1344, 15154, 311, 323, 13091, 13, 220, 1666, 814, 1051, 279, 1176, 315, 279, 1877, 358, 1047, 3970, 389, ...
So Grant had the island to himself, and for five days in the company of the whooping wind he quartered his bleak kingdom. It was rather like walking with a bad-mannered dog; a dog that rushes past you on narrow paths, leaps on you in ecstasy so that you are nearly knocked over, and drags you from the direction in which...	[ 4516, 24668, 1047, 279, 13218, 311, 5678, 11, 323, 369, 4330, 2919, 304, 279, 2883, 315, 279, 889, 34807, 10160, 568, 8502, 291, 813, 76367, 26135, 13, 1102, 574, 4856, 1093, 11689, 449, 264, 3958, 1474, 4992, 291, 5679, 26, 264, 5679...
THE STATUE. [consoling her] No, no, no, my child: do not pray. If you do, you will throw away the main advantage of this place. Written over the gate here are the words "Leave every hope behind, ye who enter." Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and...	[ 17673, 26030, 2279, 13, 510, 6387, 85669, 1077, 60, 2360, 11, 912, 11, 912, 11, 856, 1716, 25, 656, 539, 24739, 13, 1442, 499, 656, 11, 499, 690, 2571, 3201, 279, 1925, 9610, 315, 420, 2035, 13, 34991, 927, 279, 18618, 1618, 527, ...
"Very good, Mr. Croupin," said Naughton Jones dryly, "and you may find that you are meeting old friends." He turned to Larose with the air of one thinker conceding a point to another. "I agree, Mr. Larose," he said. "Your alternative theory is in the circumstances quite acceptable. Do as you say, then, and in the meant...	[ 1, 26840, 1695, 11, 4491, 13, 356, 896, 258, 1359, 1071, 13106, 3948, 263, 12201, 9235, 398, 11, 330, 438, 499, 1253, 1505, 430, 499, 527, 6574, 2362, 4885, 1210, 1283, 6656, 311, 32404, 974, 449, 279, 3805, 315, 832, 98636, 38830, ...
"For the present nothing," Stagg said. "I came here to be confirmed in my opinion, not that I wanted any real confirmation. Now, tell me something. It's more in your line than mine. Here's a matter that is causing considerable sensation through the country. And, naturally enough, because you don't have hidden bodies bl...	[ 57741, 279, 3118, 4400, 1359, 800, 16094, 1071, 13, 330, 40, 3782, 1618, 311, 387, 11007, 304, 856, 9647, 11, 539, 430, 358, 4934, 904, 1972, 20109, 13, 4800, 11, 3371, 757, 2555, 13, 1102, 596, 810, 304, 701, 1584, 1109, 10705, 13,...
The last of the Enclosure Acts, which finally put an end to the strip system of the open fields, was passed in 1845. About the same time the celebrated Broadbalk wheat plots of the Rothamsted Experimental Station were laid out. This field is divided into permanent parallel strips and cultivated on even more rigid lines...	[ 791, 1566, 315, 279, 10984, 11915, 49918, 11, 902, 5616, 2231, 459, 842, 311, 279, 13619, 1887, 315, 279, 1825, 5151, 11, 574, 5946, 304, 220, 10336, 20, 13, 10180, 279, 1890, 892, 279, 28284, 16273, 65, 1727, 34153, 31794, 315, 279, ...
"Two years only had since passed, he was still a child; yet to his own fancy how much taller, how much more of a man he had become! Besides, he now fancied himself master of his own actions--he had escaped from his father; and he--who had threatened to turn him out of doors--would not seek to possess himself of him aga...	[ 1, 11874, 1667, 1193, 1047, 2533, 5946, 11, 568, 574, 2103, 264, 1716, 26, 3686, 311, 813, 1866, 27555, 1268, 1790, 51009, 11, 1268, 1790, 810, 315, 264, 893, 568, 1047, 3719, 0, 31909, 11, 568, 1457, 81697, 1142, 5678, 7491, 315, 8...
Such teachings soon brought these circles into conflict with those of the Roman Church, especially as represented by such a scheming, political bishop as Hydatius. The clergy saw in the holy life of the ordinary believer that which assailed their peculiar position. The power of "apostolic succession" and of the priestl...	[ 21365, 45572, 5246, 7263, 1521, 26432, 1139, 12324, 449, 1884, 315, 279, 13041, 9441, 11, 5423, 439, 15609, 555, 1778, 264, 20225, 287, 11, 5054, 54306, 439, 10320, 6036, 9334, 13, 578, 63584, 5602, 304, 279, 27823, 2324, 315, 279, 1966...
We returned towards the valley of Quillota. The country was exceedingly pleasant; just such as poets would call pastoral: green open lawns, separated by small valleys with rivulets, and the cottages, we may suppose of the shepherds, scattered on the hill-sides. We were obliged to cross the ridge of the Chilicauquen. At...	[ 1687, 6052, 7119, 279, 34681, 315, 3489, 484, 6217, 13, 578, 3224, 574, 76821, 24729, 26, 1120, 1778, 439, 74072, 1053, 1650, 90371, 25, 6307, 1825, 2383, 4511, 11, 19180, 555, 2678, 86497, 449, 44229, 1130, 2641, 11, 323, 279, 97629, ...
And then something occurred. There was a great crowd of people standing about the drawing-room under the rather crooked eyes of a big 'blue' Picasso (it was advanced to admire Picasso then) and a gay portrait of Nina by Peter Augustus. The noise was deafening. I saw Anne, and then, a moment later, Mercia. Mercia's l...	[ 3112, 1243, 2555, 10222, 13, 220, 2684, 574, 264, 2294, 13734, 315, 1274, 11509, 922, 279, 13633, 48840, 1234, 279, 4856, 14425, 11059, 6548, 315, 264, 2466, 364, 12481, 6, 67283, 320, 275, 574, 11084, 311, 50863, 67283, 1243, 8, 323, ...
Away in the distance the dim hills bounded the horizon; here an isolated bald hill rising abruptly from the plain, indeed part and parcel of the plain itself forced upwards by some primeval upheaval, and there a rugged forest-clad range, its rough outlines softened by distance and the damp, foggy atmosphere. Not a bird...	[ 79384, 304, 279, 6138, 279, 5213, 35231, 62215, 279, 35174, 26, 1618, 459, 25181, 48653, 24898, 16448, 60845, 505, 279, 14733, 11, 13118, 961, 323, 30409, 315, 279, 14733, 5196, 9770, 45054, 555, 1063, 10461, 838, 96710, 22510, 11, 323, ...
"No fear of that, dear. They will be the awkward ones, and you must set them at ease by just being your simple selves, and treating them as if they were every-day people. Nell is very nice and jolly when she drops her city ways, as she must here. She will enter into the spirit of the fun at once, and I know you'll all ...	[ 39522, 8850, 315, 430, 11, 25237, 13, 2435, 690, 387, 279, 29859, 6305, 11, 323, 499, 2011, 743, 1124, 520, 14553, 555, 1120, 1694, 701, 4382, 84137, 11, 323, 27723, 1124, 439, 422, 814, 1051, 1475, 11477, 1274, 13, 452, 616, 374, 1...
Towards morning he had a strange dream. He seemed to be standing amidst bleak grey moorland, stretching either side of bare heights, under a grey sky. Huge blocks of quartz and granite lay scattered around as if thrown up by some fierce explosion, or some under-world force. And as he stood, and looked around, he saw a ...	[ 92459, 6693, 568, 1047, 264, 15234, 8063, 13, 1283, 9508, 311, 387, 11509, 65904, 76367, 20366, 4647, 269, 1974, 11, 42949, 3060, 3185, 315, 12743, 36394, 11, 1234, 264, 20366, 13180, 13, 51883, 10215, 315, 52255, 323, 38390, 11203, 38067...
His original idea seems to have been a compound of the true Epicurean atoms with the false nebulae of his contemporaries; and thus his theory presents us with the singular anomaly of absolute truth deduced, as a mathematical result, from a hybrid datum of ancient imagination intertangled with modern inacumen. Laplace's...	[ 16366, 4113, 4623, 5084, 311, 617, 1027, 264, 24549, 315, 279, 837, 40467, 554, 276, 33299, 449, 279, 905, 81967, 5724, 68, 315, 813, 59504, 5548, 26, 323, 8617, 813, 10334, 18911, 603, 449, 279, 35044, 64048, 315, 10973, 8206, 7836, ...
The trooper dashed off on the best horse of the party, within three minutes of our halt, leaving us in the gathering twilight in no very enviable position. As fast falling shades of night commenced to gather around, the darksome trees which fringed the creek, the gliding waters which murmured along its channel, the hea...	[ 791, 8348, 3376, 67822, 1022, 389, 279, 1888, 15580, 315, 279, 4717, 11, 2949, 2380, 4520, 315, 1057, 27365, 11, 9564, 603, 304, 279, 23738, 93722, 304, 912, 1633, 6233, 2205, 2361, 13, 1666, 5043, 16054, 37199, 315, 3814, 65362, 311, ...
Very genuine, though not without the typical mannered extravagance of the eighteen-nineties, is the strain of horror in the early work of Robert W. Chambers, since renowned for products of a very different quality. The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories having as a background a monstrous and su...	[ 26840, 22785, 11, 3582, 539, 2085, 279, 14595, 11827, 291, 74164, 685, 315, 279, 63134, 5392, 258, 26640, 11, 374, 279, 26800, 315, 22169, 304, 279, 4216, 990, 315, 8563, 468, 13, 65276, 11, 2533, 37048, 369, 3956, 315, 264, 1633, 220...
Sheik Abbas was looked upon as a prince by the people of a solitary village in North Lebanon. His mansion stood in the midst of those poor villagers' huts like a healthy giant amidst the sickly dwarfs. He lived amid luxury while they pursued an existence of penury. They obeyed him and bowed reverently before him as...	[ 8100, 1609, 71245, 574, 7111, 5304, 439, 264, 42826, 555, 279, 1274, 315, 264, 58229, 220, 14458, 304, 4892, 40371, 13, 5414, 52528, 14980, 304, 279, 35446, 315, 1884, 8009, 220, 61921, 6, 305, 6256, 1093, 264, 9498, 14880, 65904, 279, ...
"The only way," said Mrs. Vanderbridge, "is to fight fairly even when one fights evil." Her voice was like a bell, and as she spoke, she rose from the couch and stood there in her glowing beauty confronting the pale ghost of the past. There was a light about her that was almost unearthly--the light of triumph. The radi...	[ 10227, 1193, 1648, 1359, 1071, 18083, 13, 59142, 14024, 11, 330, 285, 311, 4465, 14470, 1524, 994, 832, 28533, 14289, 1210, 6385, 7899, 574, 1093, 264, 29519, 11, 323, 439, 1364, 12570, 11, 1364, 16392, 505, 279, 27240, 323, 14980, 1070...
In September of the same year the main body of settlers arrived for this new colony, and were landed at Taranaki, when they immediately scattered out over the country, as fast as Carrington could survey it for them. But there was now a difficulty. For Te Whero Whero and his tribe had released many hundreds of the Taran...	[ 644, 6250, 315, 279, 1890, 1060, 279, 1925, 2547, 315, 61107, 11721, 369, 420, 502, 42036, 11, 323, 1051, 27212, 520, 350, 22026, 14966, 11, 994, 814, 7214, 38067, 704, 927, 279, 3224, 11, 439, 5043, 439, 30474, 4910, 1436, 10795, 433...
"All men are fools when they kill people," said The Thinking Machine. "They are frightened, half-witted, and do all kinds of inexplicable things. Suppose there had been a sudden violent noise in the house, made by one of his pals just at the moment the girl fell backward, covering the knife with her body. The murderer ...	[ 68149, 3026, 527, 84742, 994, 814, 5622, 1274, 1359, 1071, 578, 53389, 13257, 13, 330, 7009, 527, 60178, 11, 4376, 2695, 3847, 11, 323, 656, 682, 13124, 315, 34678, 47214, 2574, 13, 83710, 1070, 1047, 1027, 264, 11210, 16806, 12248, 304...
The extensive passage which separates Van Die-men's Land from New Holland, was named Bass's Strait by governor Hunter. Mr. Bass had visited the north side of it in an open whale boat, from Port Jackson, in January, 1797; and the magnitude of the swell which he found rolling in from the south-westward, strongly indicate...	[ 791, 16781, 21765, 902, 62849, 13000, 8574, 89069, 596, 11680, 505, 1561, 38915, 11, 574, 7086, 37053, 596, 83163, 555, 19582, 24008, 13, 4491, 13, 37053, 1047, 12263, 279, 10411, 3185, 315, 433, 304, 459, 1825, 51119, 15688, 11, 505, 5...
"Aunt Ursula Beane had 'come through,' as they put it, almost at once, and was now in constant communication with them. "'Well, I hope she can tell you what she did with the money.' "They answered me quite seriously that that was what they were trying to find out, but that the old lady was just as tricky and malicious ...	[ 30233, 3935, 71138, 5724, 2893, 2194, 1047, 364, 2063, 1555, 2965, 439, 814, 2231, 433, 11, 4661, 520, 3131, 11, 323, 574, 1457, 304, 6926, 10758, 449, 1124, 13, 7326, 11649, 11, 358, 3987, 1364, 649, 3371, 499, 1148, 1364, 1550, 449,...
At present, so he concluded, Lucia did not mean war. She meant, as by some great armed demonstration, to exhibit the Riseholme spirit in its full panoply, and then crush into dazzled submission any potential rivalry. She meant also to exert an educational influence, for she allowed that Olga had great gifts, and she me...	[ 1688, 3118, 11, 779, 568, 20536, 11, 80274, 1550, 539, 3152, 4208, 13, 3005, 8967, 11, 439, 555, 1063, 2294, 17903, 30816, 11, 311, 31324, 279, 43777, 8619, 2727, 9090, 304, 1202, 2539, 7363, 454, 398, 11, 323, 1243, 5138, 1139, 61018...
Exactly at ten o'clock the store closed. Mr. Dillon went home to his wife and family, to his roomy, comfortable house with a garden and orchard and big stables. Mr. Trueman, who had long been a widower, went to his office to begin the day over. He led a double life, and until one or two o'clock in the morning entert...	[ 66457, 520, 5899, 297, 63510, 279, 3637, 8036, 13, 220, 4491, 13, 83666, 4024, 2162, 311, 813, 7555, 323, 3070, 11, 311, 813, 3130, 88, 11, 10882, 3838, 449, 264, 13863, 323, 41245, 569, 323, 2466, 357, 4893, 13, 220, 4491, 13, 1183...
I heard screaming in the rose-garden that runs along the stable walls--it was one afternoon not far from the tea-hour--and on hurrying up I found a little girl of nine or ten fastened with ropes to a rustic seat, and two other children--boys, one about twelve and one much younger---gathering sticks beneath the climbing...	[ 40, 6755, 35101, 304, 279, 16392, 2427, 8506, 430, 8640, 3235, 279, 15528, 14620, 313, 275, 574, 832, 13658, 539, 3117, 505, 279, 15600, 21925, 313, 438, 389, 13113, 28609, 709, 358, 1766, 264, 2697, 3828, 315, 11888, 477, 5899, 5043, ...
And it was at that moment that the very worst danger occurred that could befall us. I tremble now when I think how our glorious voyage might have been nipped in the bud. I had freed the hatch of my tower, and was looking at the boats of the Virginia with Vornal near me, when there was a swish and a terrific splash in t...	[ 3112, 433, 574, 520, 430, 4545, 430, 279, 1633, 12047, 8137, 10222, 430, 1436, 387, 13772, 603, 13, 358, 18659, 901, 1457, 994, 358, 1781, 1268, 1057, 44308, 45640, 2643, 617, 1027, 308, 6586, 304, 279, 37808, 13, 358, 1047, 28634, 27...
"'Fraid so." Revell felt like adding: "Too young to have had any of those stirring adventures which you are going to tell me about now if I give you half a chance." Something of his feeling must have translated itself into a warning glance, for Daggat, after momentary hesitation, twisted the subject to a different a...	[ 21230, 37, 14152, 779, 1210, 220, 10315, 616, 6612, 1093, 7999, 25, 220, 330, 32346, 3995, 311, 617, 1047, 904, 315, 1884, 55054, 32078, 902, 499, 527, 2133, 311, 3371, 757, 922, 1457, 422, 358, 3041, 499, 4376, 264, 6140, 1210, 220, ...
"Not bad, eh? But I'm fed up with poetry and art. Yet what can I do. I need women and because I can't buy or force them, I have to make poems for them: God knows how tired I am of using the insanity of Van Gogh and the adventures of Gauguin as can-openers for the ambitious Count Six-Times. And how sick I am of literary...	[ 82255, 3958, 11, 36346, 30, 2030, 358, 2846, 23114, 709, 449, 32349, 323, 1989, 13, 14968, 1148, 649, 358, 656, 13, 358, 1205, 3278, 323, 1606, 358, 649, 956, 3780, 477, 5457, 1124, 11, 358, 617, 311, 1304, 45319, 369, 1124, 25, 435...
In the unexplored regions of New South Wales the travelling that was undertaken by the Governor and his suite was often rough and full of hardships, which were endured with cheerfulness. But such a journey as that from Sydney to Windsor, which was accomplished in settled country and over first rate roads, was not witho...	[ 644, 279, 653, 69331, 1171, 13918, 315, 1561, 4987, 23782, 279, 31829, 430, 574, 45179, 555, 279, 24245, 323, 813, 16578, 574, 3629, 11413, 323, 2539, 315, 96322, 11, 902, 1051, 56224, 449, 26085, 31514, 13, 2030, 1778, 264, 11879, 439,...
As he gazed, fascinated at those menacing eyes, glaring out of the flood of light, full of fury and the rage of impotence, he felt as if struck by a sudden and undeserved fit of the "horrors." He had, in his time, seen snakes, and black cats, and things, after a prolonged burst, but nothing to come up to this. And he s...	[ 2170, 568, 342, 28109, 11, 61914, 520, 1884, 95072, 6548, 11, 72221, 704, 315, 279, 18197, 315, 3177, 11, 2539, 315, 64159, 323, 279, 34049, 315, 3242, 98660, 11, 568, 6612, 439, 422, 17948, 555, 264, 11210, 323, 56838, 2841, 5052, 31...
Here ends this account of the naval pioneers of Australia. We have already said that this work is biographical rather than historical. All that we have attempted is not to sketch the progress of the colony--as a colony, for the first twenty years of its existence, no element of progress was in it--but to show how certa...	[ 8586, 10548, 420, 2759, 315, 279, 46398, 83407, 315, 8494, 13, 1226, 617, 2736, 1071, 430, 420, 990, 374, 6160, 32277, 4856, 1109, 13970, 13, 2052, 430, 584, 617, 17644, 374, 539, 311, 26610, 279, 5208, 315, 279, 42036, 313, 300, 264,...
"'So you escaped me, then, you cursed dingo!' he continued, addressing Buchanan. 'Only for the trouble it would make, I'd put a bullet through your carcase, just where you lie--and I will, too, if I catch you out west.' He said this," said Sir Charles, "accompanied by some of the foulest oaths I ever listened to. Bucha...	[ 21230, 4516, 499, 28883, 757, 11, 1243, 11, 499, 63971, 294, 29008, 32483, 568, 8738, 11, 28118, 85290, 13, 364, 7456, 369, 279, 12544, 433, 1053, 1304, 11, 358, 4265, 2231, 264, 17889, 1555, 701, 1841, 5756, 11, 1120, 1405, 499, 1045...
Mr. Gray was next called--Mr. Ellerton looked disturbed about the murder case, but said little about it and took no active part in the search or the enquiries. He neither expressed anger at deceased on the day the murder was committed for leaving him in the lurch at Sydney, nor concern for his violent death after it wa...	[ 12555, 13, 24255, 574, 1828, 2663, 313, 12555, 13, 13852, 37733, 7111, 56507, 922, 279, 10102, 1162, 11, 719, 1071, 2697, 922, 433, 323, 3952, 912, 4642, 961, 304, 279, 2778, 477, 279, 84422, 13, 1283, 14188, 13605, 19788, 520, 43720, ...
This at first was not easy, as the reports at the club house were rather contradictory. The tragedy it appeared had been discovered by Hann and Sladen and the body was not to be moved until the police had examined it. One story was that Crosbie had fallen into "Hell" in some kind of fit and had died there. There we...	[ 2028, 520, 1176, 574, 539, 4228, 11, 439, 279, 6821, 520, 279, 6469, 3838, 1051, 4856, 220, 71240, 13, 578, 31926, 433, 9922, 1047, 1027, 11352, 555, 28829, 323, 220, 6995, 21825, 323, 279, 2547, 574, 539, 311, 387, 7882, 3156, 279, ...
She stood in the darkness straining her ears to listen, but no sound broke the silence. Doubtless these rooms were at the back of the house, or it would have been possible to hear noises from the street. Iza would have given anything for a light. Her position then would have been a little more endurable, but to remain ...	[ 8100, 14980, 304, 279, 27394, 610, 2101, 1077, 25212, 311, 9020, 11, 719, 912, 5222, 14760, 279, 21847, 13, 55964, 83, 1752, 1521, 12295, 1051, 520, 279, 1203, 315, 279, 3838, 11, 477, 433, 1053, 617, 1027, 3284, 311, 6865, 58448, 505...
"Well, Mickie Munroe was taking all of this very hard, I can tell you. In the first place, he went to the girl, and she told him that he gave her a headache when he shouted so loud. In the second place, he came to me. Mickie was a fighting man, but I had had so much luck that afternoon when they started to kick me out ...	[ 56084, 11, 60333, 648, 28982, 35804, 574, 4737, 682, 315, 420, 1633, 2653, 11, 358, 649, 3371, 499, 13, 763, 279, 1176, 2035, 11, 568, 4024, 311, 279, 3828, 11, 323, 1364, 3309, 1461, 430, 568, 6688, 1077, 264, 47846, 994, 568, 4454...
The technical slang of the modern cricket-field is ever a weariness; at the moment it was something worse, and I resigned myself to the silent contemplation of as wild an over as ever was bowled at Lord's. A shocking thing to the off was sent skipping past point for four. "Tripe!" muttered Raffles to himself. A very go...	[ 791, 11156, 81012, 315, 279, 6617, 37099, 19677, 374, 3596, 264, 10051, 1918, 26, 520, 279, 4545, 433, 574, 2555, 11201, 11, 323, 358, 40207, 7182, 311, 279, 21737, 39471, 367, 315, 439, 8545, 459, 927, 439, 3596, 574, 15631, 839, 520...
It must have been near six in the afternoon when I made my way down the steep bank to where the aptly-named bark was tied up. I soon pulled the slack of the wire out of the bed of the river, and made all fast. Then it occurred to me that I might have a smoke whilst pulling across. My next thought was that I could econ...	[ 2181, 2011, 617, 1027, 3221, 4848, 304, 279, 13658, 994, 358, 1903, 856, 1648, 1523, 279, 32366, 6201, 311, 1405, 279, 20697, 398, 5392, 3690, 54842, 574, 17791, 709, 13, 220, 358, 5246, 13541, 279, 46719, 315, 279, 9244, 704, 315, 27...
Again he thought, how during this long month, he had avoided Perdita, flying from her as from the stings of his own conscience. But he was awake now; all this should be remedied; and future devotion erase the memory of this only blot on the serenity of their life. He became cheerful, as he thought of this, and soberly...	[ 31485, 568, 3463, 11, 1268, 2391, 420, 1317, 2305, 11, 568, 1047, 31890, 3700, 67, 6388, 11, 16706, 505, 1077, 439, 505, 279, 357, 826, 315, 813, 1866, 42563, 13, 2030, 568, 574, 35447, 1457, 26, 682, 420, 1288, 387, 34630, 1142, 26...
'Bernard's stories amuse me,' said Neville, 'at the start. But when they tail off absurdly and he gapes, twiddling a bit of string, I feel my own solitude. He sees everyone with blurred edges. Hence I cannot talk to him of Percival. I cannot expose my absurd and violent passion to his sympathetic understanding. It...	[ 47055, 944, 569, 596, 7493, 1097, 817, 757, 2965, 1071, 82335, 11, 364, 266, 279, 1212, 13, 220, 2030, 994, 814, 9986, 1022, 32677, 398, 323, 568, 342, 9521, 11, 4483, 1810, 2785, 264, 2766, 315, 925, 11, 358, 2733, 856, 1866, 99544...
In English literature Catholicity has not had as much chance to express itself as in the Latin countries, and yet the list of Catholic poets is very striking and is ever so much longer than it should be according to the proportionate numbers of Catholics in England and America. Among them are Father Robert Southwell, T...	[ 644, 6498, 17649, 16879, 488, 706, 539, 1047, 439, 1790, 6140, 311, 3237, 5196, 439, 304, 279, 20023, 5961, 11, 323, 3686, 279, 1160, 315, 16879, 74072, 374, 1633, 21933, 323, 374, 3596, 779, 1790, 5129, 1109, 433, 1288, 387, 4184, 31...
I stayed in the big Coast town all one winter and till away along in the following summer. I was getting pretty daggone homesick for range country by then, and there was more than that to make me hanker to get back, it was a girl, the girl I married. She's the sister of one of the cowboys I was running around with when...	[ 40, 20186, 304, 279, 2466, 16377, 6424, 682, 832, 12688, 323, 12222, 3201, 3235, 304, 279, 2768, 7474, 13, 358, 574, 3794, 5128, 294, 16094, 606, 10632, 875, 369, 2134, 3224, 555, 1243, 11, 323, 1070, 574, 810, 1109, 430, 311, 1304, ...
I had just time to make these remarks, when I saw the boatswain and gunner returning with some of the natives. I therefore no longer doubted of our success, and that our most sanguine expectations would be fully gratified. They brought five Indians, and informed me that they had found two families, where the women trea...	[ 40, 1047, 1120, 892, 311, 1304, 1521, 24208, 11, 994, 358, 5602, 279, 32731, 86, 467, 323, 6166, 1215, 13758, 449, 1063, 315, 279, 68473, 13, 358, 9093, 912, 5129, 93762, 315, 1057, 2450, 11, 323, 430, 1057, 1455, 274, 2379, 483, 17...
This promised well but ended in a fiasco. The button king hobbled into the Green Salon before his bath, but was vexed at being charged sixpence for admission: this was paltry. Paltrier yet was the price-catalogue, for nothing for which you were charged only half-a-guinea could possibly be worth purchase. He had hope...	[ 2028, 19487, 1664, 719, 9670, 304, 264, 282, 98383, 13, 220, 578, 3215, 11734, 305, 92046, 1139, 279, 7997, 56273, 1603, 813, 9061, 11, 719, 574, 84265, 291, 520, 1694, 11684, 4848, 79, 768, 369, 26360, 25, 420, 574, 11091, 1568, 13, ...
Linear strips of coral-reefs and small knolls project from many of the isolated, as well as coast-banks; sometimes they occur quite irregularly placed, as on the Mosquito Bank, but more generally they form crescents on the windward side, situated some little distance within the outer edge of the banks:--thus on the Ser...	[ 32998, 31022, 315, 53103, 12, 770, 3933, 323, 2678, 1168, 68978, 2447, 505, 1690, 315, 279, 25181, 11, 439, 1664, 439, 13962, 1481, 4129, 26, 7170, 814, 12446, 5115, 42408, 398, 9277, 11, 439, 389, 279, 12847, 42196, 8715, 11, 719, 81...
At last he entered the automaton's room. There sat the ingeniously constructed thing, sound asleep in its chair. Erkins approached it gingerly, but it sat so quiet and harmless, and looked so weak and effeminate, and so unlike the ghostly thing that leered and winked at him the day before, declaring it was haunted, tha...	[ 1688, 1566, 568, 10862, 279, 5113, 24444, 596, 3130, 13, 2684, 7731, 279, 46492, 13610, 20968, 3245, 11, 5222, 33173, 304, 1202, 10716, 13, 9939, 11966, 25735, 433, 44768, 398, 11, 719, 433, 7731, 779, 11594, 323, 53997, 11, 323, 7111, ...
December 2.--Early this morning I was up, straining my eyes to catch a view of the bay, and at length saw the schooner standing in to the shore; and during the forenoon a boat was lowered. I now made quite certain they were coming for us, and thinking they might come up the creek in the boat for some distance, I hasten...	[ 33246, 220, 17, 33501, 42298, 420, 6693, 358, 574, 709, 11, 610, 2101, 856, 6548, 311, 2339, 264, 1684, 315, 279, 23542, 11, 323, 520, 3160, 5602, 279, 78140, 27674, 11509, 304, 311, 279, 31284, 26, 323, 2391, 279, 2291, 12684, 264, ...
But there, on the ground where the dazzling elixir had wasted its virtues,--there the herbage already had a freshness of verdure which, amid the duller sward round it, was like an oasis of green in a desert. And there wild flowers, whose chill hues the eye would have scarcely distinguished the day before, now glittere...	[ 4071, 1070, 11, 389, 279, 5015, 1405, 279, 78088, 658, 953, 404, 1047, 39928, 1202, 66627, 11, 313, 19041, 279, 1077, 21305, 2736, 1047, 264, 99316, 315, 26742, 554, 902, 11, 23442, 279, 41630, 261, 274, 1637, 4883, 433, 11, 574, 1093...
AS Syme strode along the corridor he saw the Secretary standing at the top of a great flight of stairs. The man had never looked so noble. He was draped in a long robe of starless black, down the centre of which fell a band or broad stripe of pure white, like a single shaft of light. The whole looked like some very sev...	[ 1950, 11629, 68, 31511, 451, 3235, 279, 46979, 568, 5602, 279, 12667, 11509, 520, 279, 1948, 315, 264, 2294, 11213, 315, 32249, 13, 578, 893, 1047, 2646, 7111, 779, 35482, 13, 1283, 574, 90980, 304, 264, 1317, 63719, 315, 6917, 1752, ...
When the pair of them had departed over the hill towards Sirius Cove, Morgan made up the fire in the hut, and they lay down to try and snatch a little sleep. They were both infinitely weary, after their long journey to Botany Bay and back. Morgan was asleep in a few moments after stretching himself out on the earthen f...	[ 4599, 279, 6857, 315, 1124, 1047, 56696, 927, 279, 24898, 7119, 61134, 65479, 11, 23809, 1903, 709, 279, 4027, 304, 279, 76979, 11, 323, 814, 11203, 1523, 311, 1456, 323, 85660, 264, 2697, 6212, 13, 2435, 1051, 2225, 72600, 76656, 11, ...

"I am to slip it into your pocket when you least expect it, sir. You know that I always take a little turn behind the scenes, in the course of the evening, and I often go with my daughter to the ballet-foyer, which I am entitled to do, as her mother; I bring her her shoes, when the ballet is about to begin...in fact, I...

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So, through the purple depths and the colorful desert, and the infinite nothing of distance, she peered into her own soul. Long she gazed, with wide eyes, and then with eyes tight shut. She saw the same with both. She was now a woman of twenty-two, older really than her exact age in years. She wanted to live her own li...

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All Oxford, by the time Fanny got back to the inn where she had lunched, was having tea. She had said good-bye to Dwight at the foot of his staircase, alleging an engagement as she smiled a smile that couldn't but be bleak--it was indeed, she explained, because of this engagement, that she was there that day, and havin...

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As though it had yielded itself to the inevitable, the meteorite gave no further trouble. It was gradually lowered into the hold and wedged so tightly into position that it was impossible for it to move, however much the ship rolled or pitched. Fortunate it was this work was so well done, for when the return journey wa...

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'Unknown, with or without a secret, it does not matter,' said Rhoda, 'he is like a stone fallen into a pond round which minnows swarm. Like minnows, we who had been shooting this way, that way, all shot round him when he came. Like minnows, conscious of the presence of a great stone, we undulate and eddy contentedly....

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We had crossed an old bridge thrown over the Douve and were entering the part of the park called the Oak Grove, The oaks here were centuries old. Autumn had already shrivelled their tawny leaves, and their high branches, black and contorted, looked like horrid heads of hair, mingled with quaint reptiles such as the anc...

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On October 25, 1828, one William Edden, a market-gardener, did not come home at night. His wife rushed into the neighbouring village, announcing that she had seen her husband's ghost; that he had a hammer, or some such instrument, in his hand; that she knew he had been hammered to death on the road by a man whose name...

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This protection, indeed, produced as much water as any educational exhortations. Out of school hours she taught Susie every game she knew and some she didn't; instructed her in dressing and undressing dolls; delivered her from the Italian greyhound; helped her to burn her cheeks cooking cocoanut ice and toffee; and pr...

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The good bargain she had made for her wheat kept her in good humour the whole of her way home; but when she got home things began to get wrong with her. When she got to her own gate the cob wouldn't stand while she opened it. She had had that cob for five years, and every time she came home on him she had tried to open...

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They'd been there near two hours, and the way their predicament come about was easy enough. Sol had rode too close to the edge of the ravine while trying to turn the stampeding herd, and the ground being slippery and giving no footing, the horse had slipped over the edge, and at the speed he'd been going, had rolled ov...

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There was no difficulty about the treatment. Pottermack simply wrapped the mummy in several thicknesses of wet rag, poured a can of water over it, and, having enclosed it in an outer covering of tarpaulin, left it to macerate for forty-eight hours. When, at the end of that time, he uncovered it, he was at once encourag...

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Mr. Clevely seemed pleased with the compliment thus paid his favourite hobby, and said to Mr. Burton, "I shall never make a man of you, Burton; but this young gentleman shows some promise. What will he say to my half-hundred beauties, if he thinks so well of these, from which they have been drafted? I'll show him somet...

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"I did suggest that to him. I urged it. But he made me see that he was quite right not to. It would have placed you in an impossible position. What had happened was this: the Terrys did succeed in entering the Ahbor Valley. They seemed to have undergone frightful hardships, and nobody knows how they found the way, but ...

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She stood by the sundial, where the shadow was an hour behind its time, and looked into the eye of the sun over the fruit trees beyond the yew hedges. If she married him, there would be children--without them it would not be possible. She saw frankly-- or thought she did--where she stood in the matter of sex. What s...

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"But now the affair becomes even more complex; his jealous torments reach a climax, and those same two questions torture his fevered brain more and more: 'If I repay Katerina Ivanovna, where can I find the means to go off with Grushenka?' If he behaved wildly, drank, and made disturbances in the taverns in the course o...

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Dad glanced round and saw the steer coming. "Way! Way!" he cried to one of the horses (Captain, a newly broken colt) as he was throwing a back-hand across the other. But Captain was nervous. He snorted and turned his head just in time to see the steer collide with the dray. That was enough. Before Dad could reach ...

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"Ah, father, I will not argue with you tonight," laughed Anthony. "You are not a trader. The father is opposed to all this," he explained. "He spends his time here making it as easy as he can for those who are gathered in by the raiders. I will show you his good works tomorrow. They are, well--remarkable. I co-ope...

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Mr. Giles Medlicot, though at Gangoil he was still spoken of as a new-comer, had already been located for nearly two years on the land which he had purchased immediately on his coming to the colony. He had come out direct from England with the intention of growing sugar, and, whether successful or not in making money, ...

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Leaning his arms on the top rail of a fence, he looked across the slope at the Flat, now hushed and still as the encampment of a sleeping army. Beyond, the bush shimmered palely grey--in his younger years he had been used, on a night like this when the moon sailed full and free, to take his gun and go opossuming. Those...

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Meanwhile, she became conscious, as she stood at the window, of an extraordinary tingling and vibration all over her, as if she were made of a thousand wires upon which some breeze or errant fingers were playing scales. Now her toes tingled; now her marrow. She had the queerest sensations about the thigh bones. Her hai...

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The best description of his person and standing comes from this same source. 'He is about forty-six years old (this report was read in 1519), very handsome, learned, extremely eloquent, of vast ability, and indefatigable. He alone transacts the same business which occupies all the magistracies, offices and councils of ...

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"An incalculable amount of damage," said Mrs. Earlsley. "Several people were drowned at Longford and Perth, and a great number had to be taken off the roofs of the houses, in boats. I understand, too, that a great many sheep and cattle have been drowned and swept away; and only think the simplest remedy for all this, t...

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But after all, you know, all the time you can spare on your way back should be spent in driving round in this good old province of Ontario--or Upper Canada, as they used to call it. It's the part of Canada most connected with your country and your history and everything. You drive along the St. Lawrence and lake highwa...

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Clarissa looked at Sir William, talking to Richard. He did not look like a boy--not in the least like a boy. She had once gone with some one to ask his advice. He had been perfectly right; extremely sensible. But Heavens--what a relief to get out to the street again! There was some poor wretch sobbing, she remembe...

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Curiously enough, while all the other modes of formal expression in poetry, rhythm and metre, the recurrent quantities and syllabic arrangement, as well as the caesural pause, came to us from the distant East and are to be found in the Vedas in India, rhyme was invented in the distant West. The Irish first used alliter...

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"There was the handkerchief, planted, as I had no doubt; but could not prove; the name stamped on it was Belfield's, but any one can get a rubber stamp made. Then it was stained with blood, as handkerchiefs often are; that blood might or might not be human blood; it did not seem to matter a straw whether it was or not....

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In half an hour, when the boat was hidden from the view of those on board the brigantine, the natives, who outnumbered the whites two to one, at a signal from their leader suddenly threw themselves upon the unsuspecting seamen who were rowing and threw every one of them overboard. The mate, a small, active man, managed...

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"Nearly a thousand years after the great war, our ancestors, who had multiplied in numbers and increased in knowledge, were able to construct suits in which they could explore the surface of our world, breathing air which was concentrated in tanks they carried with them. While searching the ruins of the ancient capital...

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Then the jolting and rumbling began anew. No one else got in, and when they had passed the only two landmarks she knew--the leprous Chinaman's hut and the market garden of Ah Chow, who twice a week jaunted at a half-trot to the township with his hanging baskets, to supply people with vegetables--when they had passed th...

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Notwithstanding the change in Morel's point of view with regard to the consequences of his behaviour, albeit that behaviour would have seemed to him abominable two months earlier, when he was passionately in love with Jupien's niece, whereas during the last fortnight he had never ceased to assure himself that the same ...

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At last he sought refuge in an artifice. He saw Lydia etherealised, de-carnalised; she was Miranda; _she_ might have been _his_ redemptress. He pictured her as she had looked when Dick Jackson was speaking to her. She had held back; _she_ had shown the man that contempt which Len should have shown him. Baseness had att...

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'Well, first of all, Major Smart is not so ill as the newspapers report him to be. He is like some of our prominent politicians, who are taken ill when they want to be quiet, and exclude callers while they prepare a speech, or think out some plan of campaign. Second, Mooney Peglar is not the family lawyer. If the Major...

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"It seems more likely," the old lady said dryly, "that some one has a grudge against the members of your party. As for your believing that this second affair is murder too, listen to what I have to say, and then tell me what you think." She sat down on the sofa. "Come," she went on, "draw up that chair and stop pacing....

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The other replied that he opposed Tariff Reform because he believed it would ruin the country. Barrington inquired if he were a supporter of Socialism. The man said he was not, and when further questioned he said that he believed if it were ever adopted it would bring black ruin upon the country - he believed this be...

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When they reached the forge house, they found old Mr. Furlonger stretched out on two chairs, resting. As a senior member of the Club and one of its founders, he had with a few other elders headed the procession to and from the church service which preceded the festivities, and he still wore, pinned to his coat, a huge ...

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The reign of terror, it may be supposed, had now reached its acme. The two old ladies were both lying dead at different points on the staircase, and, as usual, no conjecture could be made as to the nature of the offense which they had given; but that the murder WAS a vindictive one, the usual evidence remained behind, ...

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Besides the water and the glucose, the must likewise contains quite an appreciable amount of those important bodies, the various acids. These consist of tartaric acid, so frequently met with all through the vegetable world; of malic acid, which is the acid almost distinctive of apples; of tannic acid or "tannin," and o...

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My animals then had to be brought in contact with diseased stock. This was done by allowing them: (1) to use the common pastures at Pusa, on which diseased cattle sometimes grazed, and (2) to come in direct contact with foot-and-mouth disease. This latter was easy, as my small farmyard was only separated from one of th...

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Now I must tell you something very very striking. The church on the extreme point of the Kara D., at which I worked for 2 days before R. came, has near it some great rocks and on the rocks I found a very queer inscription. The more I looked at it the queerer it became and the less I thought It could be Christian or any...

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"The first thing that I should advise you to do when you have determined to emigrate is to turn into money all the property that you do not intend to take out with you; and, in doing this, bear in mind that your great object is to change articles of luxury and finery, which are misplaced and often worse than useless in...

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And it was as if nothing affected people in those days. They threw themselves blindly into the Impossible, and accomplished the Unbelievable. If anyone succumbed in the struggle--and that happened often--another would come and take his place. Youth was in the race; the unknown, the untried, the unheard-of, was in th...

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Fred Vaughn had returned, and put the question to which she had once decided to answer, "Yes, thank you," but now she said, "No, thank you," kindly but steadily, for when the time came, her courage failed her, and she found that something more than money and position was needed to satisfy the new longing that filled he...

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All this manual work was entered into rather as sport than as toil, for it had never been a tyranny. The most serious attention of every member was given to very different matters. The younger islanders spent much time in the library and the lab., absorbing the culture of the inferior species. The elders were concerned...

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It is difficult, if not impossible, now to discover the extent or nature of the assistance which Dampier obtained. The "copy" of the voyage as printed does not appear to exist, and the Sloane Manuscript account of it is in the clear script of a copyist, the marginal notes only being in Dampier's hand. The manuscript is...

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Matravers took his leave with a sense of relief. Their farewell had been cordial enough, but unemotional. Yet even he, ignorant of women and their ways as he was, was conscious that they had entered together upon a new phase of their knowledge of each other. The touch of their fingers, the few conventional words which ...

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Coming down from Sacramento on the Capital the other night, I found on a centre table a pamphlet advertisement of an Accident Insurance Company. It interested me a good deal, with its General Accidents, and Hazardous Tables, and Extra Hazardous furniture of the same description, and I would like to know something more ...

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But there were no such obstinate entrenchments in the face or the manner of Henry Marsh. He was a handsome boy, who looked brightly and spoke brightly, and evidently did not regard his tutor as a hostile force that had been brought against him. He was what some people would have called, oddly enough, old-fashioned; chi...

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'Some one left here last night, I think, Miss,' said Mary Quince, with a mysterious nod, one morning. ''Twas two o'clock, and I was bad with the toothache, and went down to get a pinch o' red pepper--leaving the candle a-light here lest you should awake. When I was coming up--as I was crossing the lobby, at the far end...

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Her exclamations at the sight of the black duck were so sincere in their wonder and admiration that contrition at his weak-mindedness was, for the moment at least, forced from his thoughts. And for a long time it did not return. Urged by her eager questions and evident real interest he exhibited his finished duck, th...

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It is a keen, frosty morning in June--the midwinter of Australia--and as the red sun bursts through the sea-rim, a gentle land breeze creeps softly down from the mountain forest of gums and iron-barks, and blows away the mists that, all through a night of cloudless calm, have laid heavily upon the surface of the sleepi...

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In this pleasant place, which of course I knew to be the hall of the Guest House, three young women were flitting to and fro. As they were the first of the sex I had seen on this eventful morning, I naturally looked at them very attentively, and found them at least as good as the gardens, the architecture, and the mal...

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So Grant had the island to himself, and for five days in the company of the whooping wind he quartered his bleak kingdom. It was rather like walking with a bad-mannered dog; a dog that rushes past you on narrow paths, leaps on you in ecstasy so that you are nearly knocked over, and drags you from the direction in which...

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THE STATUE. [consoling her] No, no, no, my child: do not pray. If you do, you will throw away the main advantage of this place. Written over the gate here are the words "Leave every hope behind, ye who enter." Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and...

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"Very good, Mr. Croupin," said Naughton Jones dryly, "and you may find that you are meeting old friends." He turned to Larose with the air of one thinker conceding a point to another. "I agree, Mr. Larose," he said. "Your alternative theory is in the circumstances quite acceptable. Do as you say, then, and in the meant...

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"For the present nothing," Stagg said. "I came here to be confirmed in my opinion, not that I wanted any real confirmation. Now, tell me something. It's more in your line than mine. Here's a matter that is causing considerable sensation through the country. And, naturally enough, because you don't have hidden bodies bl...

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The last of the Enclosure Acts, which finally put an end to the strip system of the open fields, was passed in 1845. About the same time the celebrated Broadbalk wheat plots of the Rothamsted Experimental Station were laid out. This field is divided into permanent parallel strips and cultivated on even more rigid lines...

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"Two years only had since passed, he was still a child; yet to his own fancy how much taller, how much more of a man he had become! Besides, he now fancied himself master of his own actions--he had escaped from his father; and he--who had threatened to turn him out of doors--would not seek to possess himself of him aga...

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Such teachings soon brought these circles into conflict with those of the Roman Church, especially as represented by such a scheming, political bishop as Hydatius. The clergy saw in the holy life of the ordinary believer that which assailed their peculiar position. The power of "apostolic succession" and of the priestl...

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We returned towards the valley of Quillota. The country was exceedingly pleasant; just such as poets would call pastoral: green open lawns, separated by small valleys with rivulets, and the cottages, we may suppose of the shepherds, scattered on the hill-sides. We were obliged to cross the ridge of the Chilicauquen. At...

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And then something occurred. There was a great crowd of people standing about the drawing-room under the rather crooked eyes of a big 'blue' Picasso (it was advanced to admire Picasso then) and a gay portrait of Nina by Peter Augustus. The noise was deafening. I saw Anne, and then, a moment later, Mercia. Mercia's l...

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Away in the distance the dim hills bounded the horizon; here an isolated bald hill rising abruptly from the plain, indeed part and parcel of the plain itself forced upwards by some primeval upheaval, and there a rugged forest-clad range, its rough outlines softened by distance and the damp, foggy atmosphere. Not a bird...

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"No fear of that, dear. They will be the awkward ones, and you must set them at ease by just being your simple selves, and treating them as if they were every-day people. Nell is very nice and jolly when she drops her city ways, as she must here. She will enter into the spirit of the fun at once, and I know you'll all ...

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Towards morning he had a strange dream. He seemed to be standing amidst bleak grey moorland, stretching either side of bare heights, under a grey sky. Huge blocks of quartz and granite lay scattered around as if thrown up by some fierce explosion, or some under-world force. And as he stood, and looked around, he saw a ...

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His original idea seems to have been a compound of the true Epicurean atoms with the false nebulae of his contemporaries; and thus his theory presents us with the singular anomaly of absolute truth deduced, as a mathematical result, from a hybrid datum of ancient imagination intertangled with modern inacumen. Laplace's...

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The trooper dashed off on the best horse of the party, within three minutes of our halt, leaving us in the gathering twilight in no very enviable position. As fast falling shades of night commenced to gather around, the darksome trees which fringed the creek, the gliding waters which murmured along its channel, the hea...

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Very genuine, though not without the typical mannered extravagance of the eighteen-nineties, is the strain of horror in the early work of Robert W. Chambers, since renowned for products of a very different quality. The King in Yellow, a series of vaguely connected short stories having as a background a monstrous and su...

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Sheik Abbas was looked upon as a prince by the people of a solitary village in North Lebanon. His mansion stood in the midst of those poor villagers' huts like a healthy giant amidst the sickly dwarfs. He lived amid luxury while they pursued an existence of penury. They obeyed him and bowed reverently before him as...

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"The only way," said Mrs. Vanderbridge, "is to fight fairly even when one fights evil." Her voice was like a bell, and as she spoke, she rose from the couch and stood there in her glowing beauty confronting the pale ghost of the past. There was a light about her that was almost unearthly--the light of triumph. The radi...

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In September of the same year the main body of settlers arrived for this new colony, and were landed at Taranaki, when they immediately scattered out over the country, as fast as Carrington could survey it for them. But there was now a difficulty. For Te Whero Whero and his tribe had released many hundreds of the Taran...

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"All men are fools when they kill people," said The Thinking Machine. "They are frightened, half-witted, and do all kinds of inexplicable things. Suppose there had been a sudden violent noise in the house, made by one of his pals just at the moment the girl fell backward, covering the knife with her body. The murderer ...

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The extensive passage which separates Van Die-men's Land from New Holland, was named Bass's Strait by governor Hunter. Mr. Bass had visited the north side of it in an open whale boat, from Port Jackson, in January, 1797; and the magnitude of the swell which he found rolling in from the south-westward, strongly indicate...

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"Aunt Ursula Beane had 'come through,' as they put it, almost at once, and was now in constant communication with them. "'Well, I hope she can tell you what she did with the money.' "They answered me quite seriously that that was what they were trying to find out, but that the old lady was just as tricky and malicious ...

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At present, so he concluded, Lucia did not mean war. She meant, as by some great armed demonstration, to exhibit the Riseholme spirit in its full panoply, and then crush into dazzled submission any potential rivalry. She meant also to exert an educational influence, for she allowed that Olga had great gifts, and she me...

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Exactly at ten o'clock the store closed. Mr. Dillon went home to his wife and family, to his roomy, comfortable house with a garden and orchard and big stables. Mr. Trueman, who had long been a widower, went to his office to begin the day over. He led a double life, and until one or two o'clock in the morning entert...

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I heard screaming in the rose-garden that runs along the stable walls--it was one afternoon not far from the tea-hour--and on hurrying up I found a little girl of nine or ten fastened with ropes to a rustic seat, and two other children--boys, one about twelve and one much younger---gathering sticks beneath the climbing...

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And it was at that moment that the very worst danger occurred that could befall us. I tremble now when I think how our glorious voyage might have been nipped in the bud. I had freed the hatch of my tower, and was looking at the boats of the Virginia with Vornal near me, when there was a swish and a terrific splash in t...

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"'Fraid so." Revell felt like adding: "Too young to have had any of those stirring adventures which you are going to tell me about now if I give you half a chance." Something of his feeling must have translated itself into a warning glance, for Daggat, after momentary hesitation, twisted the subject to a different a...

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"Not bad, eh? But I'm fed up with poetry and art. Yet what can I do. I need women and because I can't buy or force them, I have to make poems for them: God knows how tired I am of using the insanity of Van Gogh and the adventures of Gauguin as can-openers for the ambitious Count Six-Times. And how sick I am of literary...

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In the unexplored regions of New South Wales the travelling that was undertaken by the Governor and his suite was often rough and full of hardships, which were endured with cheerfulness. But such a journey as that from Sydney to Windsor, which was accomplished in settled country and over first rate roads, was not witho...

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As he gazed, fascinated at those menacing eyes, glaring out of the flood of light, full of fury and the rage of impotence, he felt as if struck by a sudden and undeserved fit of the "horrors." He had, in his time, seen snakes, and black cats, and things, after a prolonged burst, but nothing to come up to this. And he s...

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Here ends this account of the naval pioneers of Australia. We have already said that this work is biographical rather than historical. All that we have attempted is not to sketch the progress of the colony--as a colony, for the first twenty years of its existence, no element of progress was in it--but to show how certa...

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"'So you escaped me, then, you cursed dingo!' he continued, addressing Buchanan. 'Only for the trouble it would make, I'd put a bullet through your carcase, just where you lie--and I will, too, if I catch you out west.' He said this," said Sir Charles, "accompanied by some of the foulest oaths I ever listened to. Bucha...

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Mr. Gray was next called--Mr. Ellerton looked disturbed about the murder case, but said little about it and took no active part in the search or the enquiries. He neither expressed anger at deceased on the day the murder was committed for leaving him in the lurch at Sydney, nor concern for his violent death after it wa...

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This at first was not easy, as the reports at the club house were rather contradictory. The tragedy it appeared had been discovered by Hann and Sladen and the body was not to be moved until the police had examined it. One story was that Crosbie had fallen into "Hell" in some kind of fit and had died there. There we...

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She stood in the darkness straining her ears to listen, but no sound broke the silence. Doubtless these rooms were at the back of the house, or it would have been possible to hear noises from the street. Iza would have given anything for a light. Her position then would have been a little more endurable, but to remain ...

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"Well, Mickie Munroe was taking all of this very hard, I can tell you. In the first place, he went to the girl, and she told him that he gave her a headache when he shouted so loud. In the second place, he came to me. Mickie was a fighting man, but I had had so much luck that afternoon when they started to kick me out ...

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The technical slang of the modern cricket-field is ever a weariness; at the moment it was something worse, and I resigned myself to the silent contemplation of as wild an over as ever was bowled at Lord's. A shocking thing to the off was sent skipping past point for four. "Tripe!" muttered Raffles to himself. A very go...

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It must have been near six in the afternoon when I made my way down the steep bank to where the aptly-named bark was tied up. I soon pulled the slack of the wire out of the bed of the river, and made all fast. Then it occurred to me that I might have a smoke whilst pulling across. My next thought was that I could econ...

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Again he thought, how during this long month, he had avoided Perdita, flying from her as from the stings of his own conscience. But he was awake now; all this should be remedied; and future devotion erase the memory of this only blot on the serenity of their life. He became cheerful, as he thought of this, and soberly...

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'Bernard's stories amuse me,' said Neville, 'at the start. But when they tail off absurdly and he gapes, twiddling a bit of string, I feel my own solitude. He sees everyone with blurred edges. Hence I cannot talk to him of Percival. I cannot expose my absurd and violent passion to his sympathetic understanding. It...

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In English literature Catholicity has not had as much chance to express itself as in the Latin countries, and yet the list of Catholic poets is very striking and is ever so much longer than it should be according to the proportionate numbers of Catholics in England and America. Among them are Father Robert Southwell, T...

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I stayed in the big Coast town all one winter and till away along in the following summer. I was getting pretty daggone homesick for range country by then, and there was more than that to make me hanker to get back, it was a girl, the girl I married. She's the sister of one of the cowboys I was running around with when...

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I had just time to make these remarks, when I saw the boatswain and gunner returning with some of the natives. I therefore no longer doubted of our success, and that our most sanguine expectations would be fully gratified. They brought five Indians, and informed me that they had found two families, where the women trea...

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This promised well but ended in a fiasco. The button king hobbled into the Green Salon before his bath, but was vexed at being charged sixpence for admission: this was paltry. Paltrier yet was the price-catalogue, for nothing for which you were charged only half-a-guinea could possibly be worth purchase. He had hope...

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Linear strips of coral-reefs and small knolls project from many of the isolated, as well as coast-banks; sometimes they occur quite irregularly placed, as on the Mosquito Bank, but more generally they form crescents on the windward side, situated some little distance within the outer edge of the banks:--thus on the Ser...

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At last he entered the automaton's room. There sat the ingeniously constructed thing, sound asleep in its chair. Erkins approached it gingerly, but it sat so quiet and harmless, and looked so weak and effeminate, and so unlike the ghostly thing that leered and winked at him the day before, declaring it was haunted, tha...

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December 2.--Early this morning I was up, straining my eyes to catch a view of the bay, and at length saw the schooner standing in to the shore; and during the forenoon a boat was lowered. I now made quite certain they were coming for us, and thinking they might come up the creek in the boat for some distance, I hasten...

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But there, on the ground where the dazzling elixir had wasted its virtues,--there the herbage already had a freshness of verdure which, amid the duller sward round it, was like an oasis of green in a desert. And there wild flowers, whose chill hues the eye would have scarcely distinguished the day before, now glittere...

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AS Syme strode along the corridor he saw the Secretary standing at the top of a great flight of stairs. The man had never looked so noble. He was draped in a long robe of starless black, down the centre of which fell a band or broad stripe of pure white, like a single shaft of light. The whole looked like some very sev...

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When the pair of them had departed over the hill towards Sirius Cove, Morgan made up the fire in the hut, and they lay down to try and snatch a little sleep. They were both infinitely weary, after their long journey to Botany Bay and back. Morgan was asleep in a few moments after stretching himself out on the earthen f...

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