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Excerpt from Joy in the Morning
Crushed and glorified beyond all generations of the planet, war stories prick this generation like family records. It is from us of to-day that the load is lifted. We have weathered the heaviness of the night, to us Joy cometh in the morning.
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Excerpt from The Eternal Feminine: And Other Stories
Perhaps that's her trouble. What do you mean? John Garden's perfectly kind to her, isn't he?
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Excerpt from The Perfect Tribute
Expected. He glanced across the car. Edward Everett sat there, the orator of the following day, the finished gentleman, the careful student, the heir of traditions of learning and breeding, of scholarly instincts and.
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Excerpt from Coals of FirePerhaps only a few persons in Great Britain could have been found. Who did not know the name of the oldest woman suffragist in the kingdom, the friend in her girlhood of John Stuart Mill, a power yet, in age and blindness, in the councils Oi the movement. She stood, very old, bowed, sightless, with her sunny, gentle face turned vaguely, smilingly, toward the great, full auditorium, while they greeted her, clapping, ch...
Excerpt from Bob and the Guides
Was what she as then. I knew he liked her, you seek Henri Jeunesse, who was one of my two guides, but he didn't know the diference. Then Walter.
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Excerpt from The Scribner Treasury: 22 Classics Tales
Shortly after Madame Delphine appeared in 1881, Laf cadio Hearn commented on Cable's genius for recreation of a past era: The author must have made many a pil grimage to study the wrinkled faces of the houses, or perhaps to read the queer names upon the signs - as Balzac loved to do in old-fashioned Paris. Hearn here put his finger on the two factors which in¿uenced Cable's writing in the ...
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860?-1936) was an American writer, best known for a widely read short story about Abraham Lincoln, The Perfect Tribute. The Marshall tells the tale of a young boy who -- being made a Chevalier of France at age three by Napoleon -- becomes a devoted follower of the Emperor.
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860?-1936) was an American writer. Best known for The Perfect Tribute, a widely read short story about Abraham Lincoln, her many works included August First, A Good Samaritan, Vive l'Empereur and others.
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Excerpt from Old Glory
Caribbean waters. The event which made the night memorable had been preparing for two days. Two days back the junior officer of the ship had picked up a book on narcotics in the doctor's cabin, the book was well writ ten and told tales to fire a young daredevil.
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Excerpt from The Marshal
On the wall of the large hall Of a house in Virginia hang two portraits side by side. Both are Of young men, both in uniform, one in the dark blue coat and the White and red of an infantry Officer Of the French Empire, the other in that scarlet shirt which came to be a ¿ag, almost as much as a dress, to the heroic band of insurgents who struggled for free Italy against the Austrians. The master of the Virginia house, ...