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...fused to turn on the meter. “I will make you a special price” – he bawled in broken English. He kept his word. I climbed the winding stairs to the... ...! I don’t understand a word you are saying, even though it sounds suspiciously like English. You lost me back in 1941.” She smiled and it was like... ...” A gun butt in the kidney hurts like hell, exactly as they say it does in dime novels and B movies. It feels like a stiletto plunged deep and th... ... I guess she ought to.” – I assured him – “Her German is bound to be better than my English.” Dan made a skeptical face and fired up one of his l...

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... am, back at a truth I learned long ago and have used in more than one of my novels: Nothing enters my life that isn’t caused or allowed by God, nothi... ...n writing (or should be). I had, and still have, much to learn about writing novels, but one thing I know, I need to continually work at my craft, lea... ...ands holding our work open to His plans, we miss our chance for the greatest adventure in writing possible: being His tool to transform lives for eter... ... Corinthians 10:13 (NLT) W inston Churchill once said, “Writing a book is an adventure. It begins as an amusement, then becomes a mistress, then a mas... ...? I’m humbled, but not subdued. “Couldn’t I just give my coworkers one of my novels and then give my two weeks’ notice?” It’s then the Savior’s words ... ...offered a sales job. I think I have experienced everything but success in my adventure to sell my inspirational, historical novel. But there have been... ...o the region and never moved back. She holds an interdisciplinary degree in English, history and drama and a law degree from the University of Richmo...

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...ublic Record Office in the United Kingdom. Trundle is described as a "very charming adventurer, very good looking, well bred and an excellent dancer... ...ver the heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the be... ...hat laymen and the media know about them. Yet, the truth is different. The English physicist Stephen William Hawking proved that in the vic... ... successful caesarean section in the previous 50 years. The book was translated to English. An Edom, Virginia doctor, Jessee Bennet, recorded in ... ...ro" meant "freebooting" and applied to 16th century privateers. Irregular military adventurers, mercenaries and guerrilleros in the 19th century we... ... Fleming, Ian Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a C... ..., translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. ... ...itle as one of his favorite books. Many movie plots were loosely based on Fleming's novels and have grossed, in total, more than $1 billion. The 007... ...the kitchen. He accumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, historical accounts of the Nazi medical experi...

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...many different countries and could converse passably in German, Italian and English by the time I returned to Baincthuin. By the same token, I loved... ..., which made paging through the books very convenient. I chose a couple of novels and a small volume of poems and paid for my selection. My purchas... ... am what Francois always called an overeducated chit,” I laughed. “I speak English fairly well.” I did not point out that, no matter where we went,... ...nescorted. I had to admit to myself that living abroad sounded like a great adventure. When I said as much to Erik, he grew solemn. “Claire, I live... ...e, you’ll not be destitute,” he explained). We worked daily on improving my English by reading Shakespeare’s works, and even began to teach Gilbert.... ...ght just as well to stay home in that event.” “Then we shall have the grand adventure of taking the omnibus.” Gilbert would brook no resistance, an...

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...she had an answer. Well, one that wasn’t totally stupid or based on romance novels. She pursed her lips. “I guess you just do. You know as well a... ... kinda love you. Now look what you’ve done. I can’t even speak the Queen’s English without slanging it about.” “Daddy always said I’d make an ange...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting asto...

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...Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wo...

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...nth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERIES, ADVENTURES, BATTLES, DARINGS AND SUFFERINGS OF THE HEROIC CHARACTERS... ...lcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- ... ...scovery of America in the year 889 -- Verdant shores and prolific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot o... ...England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- They are freed and re-establish them... ...blish themselves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Captur... ...by Spaniards and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish... ... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...tion and an acuteness in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.... ...AL LINCOLN’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... .... -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesb... ...the courtesy of the translator, Dr. Ray Rummers, Chairman, Department of English, Baylor University. LEONARDO DA VINCI... ...imes it is raining. In the evening fif- teen courses are certainly gourmet adventures, but a little late at night. The King often sends me three or f... ...d or gone. There is another kind of politics. A half century ago life was adventure: life was new: friends were new, work was new: there was love. W... ...ours in his cabin where I gave up to his booked walls: volumes in French, English, Italian, Greek, manuscripts in Latin and Hebrew, his literary wor... ...i I had seen at the commedia dell’arte: I remembered the wreck of the Sea Adventure in Bermuda: a drunk sailor stopped me and described that grievou...

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...rder to be able to express his protest, is plausible; with inherent risks and adventures, the literary creation could be published (even censored an... ...th the title I am against myself, and Nonpoems-1992), the paradoxist literary adventure, as an epiphenomenon of the existential one of Florentin Sma... ...e equalized only by ...the poet Florentin Smarandache in a few of his little “novels” in verses: Roman d’amour, Old age without youth age etc. At th... ...available the Romanian original at that time and he had to remake it after the English version, resulting here and there an English/Romanian-English ... ...Romanian-English version! For instance- Geoge Diabolicu ( George Devil in the english version), in place of Gheorghe Dracu, the original title. I ha... ...ations from different languages of the polyglot Smarandache (he knows French, English, Spanish, Portuguese).Affinities, volume of translations from ... ...fellow-traveller” of Florentin Smarandache at the beginning of the paradoxist “adventure”, developing the idea that this movement recalls the histori...

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...it the small payments that Lacey gave her for ‘her job’. Lacey enrolled in English Lit at the university. She took bridge lessons, and went once a wee... ...me owning bookstores all across Canada, but I don’t read much. I liked The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when I was a boy, and Gulliver’s Travels. Bu... ...et intimacy is beyond me!” Oh my! I suppose, if I am going to keep writing novels, I shall have to learn all this dreadful stuff. I am not ready to re... ...rn journey they were old hands. Jake declared, “Well, we have shared a new adventure to- gether, my love. It was wonderful. One day I’ll buy a bigger ... ... cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publication. A computer on a small... ...ther is an author? What does she write?” “You’d probably call them romance novels, although they don’t fit that mode exactly. They are love stories bu... ...n surveyed them slowly from 250 SUSAN BRACKEN head to toe. “Can you speak English?” Lacey asked. “No, no puedo,” he said, staring at her. So Lacey he... ...id the older of the two. He leaned closer to Lacey and in heavily accented English repeated, “Lady, you are breaking the law .” Lacey felt like she wo... ...efore could often be found crawling or toddling on shaky legs in search of adventure, so she knew she was in for another busy day. It was a Tuesday, n...

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...sh Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Tra... ...nce. The Universal symbols of Birth and Infinity are semantically correct in English, and in Mathematics, and in Gender. When you use logic organi... ...tus based upon their ability to entertain others about imaginary monsters and adventures they never had. So… by their egos being falsely rewarded ... ...gration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the exact same hi... ...ved in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… ... ...em of government-funded corporations in the Middle Ages. Their swashbuckling adventurers had even more freedom and scope to rob, rape and make a pro... ...applauded and praised and admired as their efforts being the bravest and most adventuresome and noblest of all human endeavours in all history is a ... ... You can see the modern equivalent of exclusive love in Harlequin Romance novels. Where the heroine falls in love only with the most handsome, ... ...ivilization on Humans 809 Do you ever see any heroines in these novels falling in Romantic Affairs with a male who is not perfect, who...

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... Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to kidnap" - most commonly, t... ...positioning are already fierce - a good sign. The Internet used to be an English, affluent middle-class, white collar, male phenomenon. It has long... ...business - are narrowing. Already there are more women than men users and English is the language of less than half of all web sites. The wireless Ne... ... shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eight decades later. T... ... be the nitpicker and set up the framework for our intellectual Christmas adventure. One can discern the following relationships between the Law an... ..., these new mandarins of the Empire(R). But, before starting our "graphic adventure" in the techno-jungle of our Play-SuperStation(TM) thou should k...

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... Portfolio Management Theory and Technical Analysis Lecture Notes In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the f... ...ructive aggressiveness - is distinct from jealousy. The New Oxford Dictionary of English defines envy as: "A feeling of discontented or resentf... ...rs and recorded employment growth. In the absence of efficient capital markets and adventuresome capitalists, some developing countries have taken ... ...y non-existent. To this understatement, we must add my precarious knowledge of the English language. So, I am in a disadvantaged position. Due to t... ... - let me be the nitpicker and set up the framework for our intellectual Christmas adventure. One can discern the following relationships between ... ...echnicians, these new mandarins of the Empire(R). But, before starting our "graphic adventure" in the techno-jungle of our Play-SuperStation(TM) tho... ...ench. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and co-owner...

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...o long ago named the town after their ancestors. The name translated into English meant, ‘Speedy Bunyip’ from which the locals derived the name ‘Bal... ...ent by God to oversee and safe guard ‘Project Noah’ and his boat building adventure. These two angels had to combat many imps trying to swipe timber... ... think I would like to learn Greek or Hebrew, I have enough problems with English’. Stella gave up the idea of trying to educate people on the spiri... ...rk for the world than to work for God. It is easier to read magazines and novels than to read God’s word. It is easier to donate time or money to on... ...sis, chapter one; verse one. Mind you, the entire reading was from an old English text. The constant thee, thy and thou, were a little hard for some...

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...Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pen... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...nia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Melville Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville PART I CHAPTER I. MY RECEPT... ...his heart to bear malice against him. So much for stout little Jermin. All English whalemen are bound by-law to carry a physi- cian, who, of course, i... ...ts never had the shipping of it. Beside this, every other day we had what English seamen call “shot soup”— great round peas, polishing themselves lik... ...ves; and, one day—joy to us!—Po- Po brought in three volumes of Smollett’s novels, which had been found in the chest of a sailor, who some time previo...

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... ! ... ... Pennsylvania State University assumes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mis... ...Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring cl... ... of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity univers... ...Stevenson—1898 Edition. CHAPTER I—A TALE OF A LION RAMPANT IT WA S IN THE MONTH of May 1813 that I was so unlucky as to fall at last into the hands of... ...of an extraordinary rock, I was cast with several hundred fellow-sufferers, all privates like my- self, and the more part of them, by an accident, ver... ...s with bullet-holes.’ ‘Too much Romance of the Forest?’ I suggested, recall- ing my little friend of the morning, and what I was sure had been her fav...

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...ckeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- ti... ...r for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsyl- va... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray CHAPTER I “Truth... ...y young Duch-ss of Orl-ns (who, though she does not speak 4 Major Gahagan English, understands it as well as I do), said to me in the soft- est Teuto... ...ial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwrecks, mutinies, engag... ...she was the daughter of a native Rajah, and had been carried off by a poor English sub- altern in Lord Clive’s time. The young man was killed very soo...

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...Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863, Poplar, London - 4 December 1945, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire) was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories. Morrison's most famous novel is A Child of the Jago, published in 1896, The novel described in graphic detail...

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...The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania he becomes involved in saving the King’s Life and his Throne from the King’s...

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...Excerpt: Volume One of the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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