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Excerpt from Sheer Off: A Tale "Why, there are the church bells a-ringing! as if it wasn't enough to have all the schoolboys going in procession with their garlands, and nosegays, and nonsense! " exclaimed Nancy Sands, the wife of the Clerk of Colme, as she stood in the shop of Ben Stone the carpenter, with her arms a-kimbo, and an expression anything but amiable upon her flushed face. " One might fancy that our new young baronet was a-coming...

Excerpt from The Story of a Needle I really can say nothing of my earliest days except from report. I have heard, but I can hardly believe it, that I was once part of a rough mass of iron ore, that had lain for ages in a dark mine in Cornwall, that I was dug out, and put into a huge furnace, and heated till I became red-hot, and melted, that I was made into part of an iron bar, and when in a fiery glow was suddenly plunged into cold water, wh...

Excerpt from The Golden Fleece "Owls have, no doubt, their proper place in the social as well as the natural world, but of all birds under the sun - or moon - they are the last that I should have chosen as types of wisdom, unless it be wisdom to prefer darkness to light, and to see, by choice, the night-side of everything in creation! To my mind, the lark that soars singing towards the sun in summer, or the robin that whistles his merry lay i...

Excerpt from Cyril Ashley: A Tale "Time rolls his ceaseless course." Great changes have his waves brought to the Authoress of this little volume since she penned the last lines of "Claudia." The eyes of those who were wont most gladly to welcome each new work om her pen, are closed in their last long sleep, a stranger possesses her childhoods home, her own conscious failing in mental energy makes her feel that her sun is gently sloping toward...

Excerpt from The Spanish Cavalier: A Story of SevilleDe Aguilera is not wont to make such blunders, said Lucius, who had sympathy for his fellow-clerk, partly arising from a belief that their Circumstances were somewhat the same - that the proud Spaniard had been, like himself, driven by necessity to work under one who, by birth and education, belonged to a sphere much lower than their own. I thought, continued Lepine, that De Aguilera looked ...

Excerpt from The Crown of Success About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the origin...

Excerpt from The Robbers' Cave Si, signore, answered the Calabrese, pointing onwards with his whip to a small irregularly built house, which seemed wedged between two masses of rock overgrown with cactus, and which was so much of the colour of the cliffs, that one might fancy that it had grown out of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This...

Excerpt from Battling With the World I Have ventured to hope that young readers of "The Giant-killer" might be disposed to welcome a little volume which should tell them of the further fortunes of some of the friends with whom they made acquaintance in that work. Fides himself is absent from my picture, I have dropped the veil of allegory altogether, and present my readers with a simple sketch of such quiet home-trials and home-sorrows as som...

Excerpt from Beyond the Black Waters: A Tale The title of this work would probably convey no definite idea to the minds of most Europeans, it might be considered as merely a figurative expression. It is otherwise with the native of Hindostan. The Black Waters are to him those that cut off from happiness and home the criminals of that vast region to which he belongs. Beyond the Black Waters lie the Andaman Islands, where, at the present time, ...

Excerpt from The Lake of the Woods: A Story of the Backwoods "He does not come back!" mournfully exclaimed Amy Gaveston, turning from the low door-way from which she had anxiously gazed forth into the deepening twilight. "Would that my boy had never gone! No doctor can help me now. The sands have well nigh run out, and no power of man can turn the glass." The voice which uttered those words, faint but clear, was that of a man in the last sta...

Excerpt from Stories of the Wars of the Jews: From the Babylonian Captivity, to the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus The works which I have chiefly consulted in compiling the following sketch, have been (in addition to the Holy Scriptures) the books of the Apocrypha, Josephus' Wars of the Jews, the elaborate writings of Prideaux, and a small volume on the history of the Hebrews, published some years ago in India. There is no history more fr...

Excerpt from Harold's Bride: A TaleNabi Bakhsh went off to call the workmen. Robin, though just Off a twenty-miles walk, pulled Off his jacket, and set to work himself with all the vigour which youth, health, and light spirits can give. The youth talked to himself as he laboured, being fond Of soliloquizing when no one was near with whom to converse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...

Excerpt from Idols in the Heart: A Tale "My dear girls, I can indeed enter into your feelings, " said Lady Selina Mountjoy in a tone of sympathy, "it is trying to have to welcome a stranger to your home, to see her take the place once occupied by your dear departed mother." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an imp...

Excerpt from Pictures of St. Peter in an English HomeHarold, when at school, wrote pretty constantly both to his father and to Lady Laurie, and little Robin had occasionally a letter all to himself, of which he was very proud, and to which he always wrote a reply in very round text-hand, garnished with many' a blot, giving the last news of his pigeons.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books....

Excerpt from Walter Binning, the Adopted Son: Or, Illustrations of the Lord's PrayerOH as I said before, it's all a matter of opinion. I think it a man's duty to attend to his business, and get his children well on in the world, observed Goldie, the fruiterer, as the baker's wife handed to him a bag of captain's biscuits from behind her counter. We must look to our advantage in this life, Mrs. Winter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishe...

Excerpt from Triumph Over Midian Have executed I humbly commend my little work to Him who despiseth not the feeble, and whose blessing on the humblest instrument can. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

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