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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...re, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pu... ...8201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, t... ...novelty, and one which might be adopted with advantage by any house which is perched in a commanding situation. This feature may be described as a ser... ...nce more and enter the slavery of official or professional life. CHAPTER V: At the Students’ Dueling- Ground Dueling by Wholesale One day in the inter... ...ke of applause. The result is that we rob ourselves of the sweetest part of the treat; we get the whis- key, but we don’t get the sugar in the bottom ... ... blue army shirts; blue overalls; leath- ern gaiters buttoned tight from knee down to ankle; high- quarter coarse shoes snugly laced. Each man had an ... ...e as his in an attempt which had brought death to so many of the world’s most illustrious heroes. But this tramp only asked—”Were any of these heroes ... ...he experimenter went. We had nothing to do, now, but bridge the cellar and pro- ceed on our way. With a cheer the men went at their work. I attended ...

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... experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. ?Here, at any rate,? said I, ?I shall find peace and a chance to work!?...

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...l fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and...

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...SSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional.... ...you afraid of the spirits you murder?’ Thuggee: ‘Never, they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are... ...I?’ THUGS - A murderous, fanatical, secret society, which existed since the fourteenth century and roamed the country pretending to befriend trave... ... time she was fifteen, Helen could speak French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Her interest in science and mathematics had encouraged Dr. Forsyth... ... Although it was afternoon, the leaden skies darkened the small sick bay, waves beat against the glass of the portholes and the ship reared up to m... ...ass and the British reconstructed Grand Trunk Road is now a permanent highway and an acknowledged engineering achievement, unsurpassed by any other ... ... on my return journey before nightfall. My platoon is waiting for me at the North Gate.’ Taking a glass from the tray, John MacGregor quenched his t... ...ss the verandah and into the entrance hall. Isabel de Silva was standing near him with a tray of glasses and a jug of iced nimbu pani and as he rea...

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...Excerpt: One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the morning, in my own flat, I...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is head of a bu...

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned oursel...

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...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...e By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...f resemblance and the matter of difference—upon all those issues the young science student is as apt to dismiss as Rot, and the young classical studen... ...ot, and the young classical student as Gas, and the austere student of the science of Economics as Theorising, unsuit- able for his methods of researc... ...ver my father’s shop, the dusty aisles and fixtures, the regiments of wine-glasses and tumblers, the rows of hanging mugs and jugs, the towering edifi... ...Natural History Museum, through the geological draw- ers of the College of Science, through a year of dissection and some weeks at the astronomical te... ... mani- festly preaches a Mahommedan God, a modernised God with a taste for engineering. I have no doubt that in devotion to a virile, almost national ...

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... the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that...

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