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The Story Of A Robin

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Agnes Underwood


Excerpts: [... to tell its own story and throw the blame on its neighbour. What is the meaning of this noise? said Cock Robin. Where is Robinette? ...... the doctrine taught by Dr. Watts that 'Birds in their little nests agree' and he does not like to think that his children are naughty beyond all others. ...... where he soon found some earth newly turned over, and there was a feast for a king. ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 119

Kriegsbuchlein Fur Unsere Kinder

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Agnes Sapper


Excerpts: [... des Tagblattes erhalt von den Madchen dieser Klasse einen Brief des Inhalts: Es kostet uns unser ganzes Taschengeld, wenn Sie taglich ein Extra_blatt ...... Verbundeten, die Osterreicher, sind ausdauernd, tapfer und zah. Wohl uns, dass wir solches horen durfen! Es bestarkt uns in der stolzen ...... dies nicht sagen, sie musste erst mit ihrem Manne sprechen. Sie lasse dann durch ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 120

Indice Chronologico Dos Factos Mais Notaveis Da Historia Do Brasil

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Agostinho Marques Perdigao Malheiro


Excerpts: [... muito coadjuvou o Bar~ao de Caxias na total e definitiva pacificac~ao d'esta Provincia.-Em 13 de Marco deste anno terminou o prazo de durac~ao do ...... e Vereadores.-Tem lugar no Rio de Janeiro hum facto que comprometteo de certo modo as boas intelligencias entre o Brazil e os Estados-Unidos, n~ao ...... a maior parte dos seus sequazes implorando a Clemencia Imperial terminada se ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 58

La Transformacion De Las Razas En America

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Agustin Alvarez


Excerpts: [... eran un medio reconocido de apaciguar deidades irritadas, pero repelente ahora. Dif'icilmente el hombre m'as depravado, en su recto entendimiento, ...... ni~nos a quienes se obliga a pensar en el diablo, el purgatorio y el infierno, tienen desde entonces y seg'un la dosis del veneno, m'as o menos malogradas ...... los antepasados todos entend'ian que los tiempos felices, los ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 9

A Yankee Flier Over Berlin

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Al Avery


Summary: [Avery Corman (born November 28 1935 in the Bronx New York) is an American novelist. He is the author of the novel Kramer vs. Kramer (1977) which created a sea change in attitudes toward child custody with the public and in the courts in the United States and internationally. Robert Benton wrote the screenplay and directed the movie of the same name Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) starring Dustin Hoffman ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 407

Justice Gets A Break

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Al Bromley


Summary: [A five-minute story of Siamese twins and a keen-eyed cop.]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 292

Watch Yourself Go By

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Al Field


Summary: [Fire Watch is a 1984 book of short stories by Connie Willis that touches on time travel nuclear war the end of the world and cornball humour. The title story Fire Watch is about a time-travelling historian who goes back to The Blitz in London. Hes miffed because he spent years preparing to travel with St. Paul and gets sent to St. Pauls Cathedral in London instead. The idea of time travel used ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 305

De Zonderlinge Lotgevallen Van Gil Blas Van Santillano Deel 2

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Alain Rene Le Sage


Excerpts: [... ging mee, dan een knecht, die ons reed. Wij reden niet in de richting van Madrid, zooals ik had verwacht, maar naar de Portugeesche grenzen, waar wij ...... naar het huis van mijn nieuwen meester. Ik werd ontvangen door den intendant, die mij zeer beleefd welkom heette en naar mijn kamer bracht. Dat was ...... heeren, verliet mij dadelijk, om zijn Mecenas te gaan bezoeken. Hij liet ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 344

High Treason

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Alan Anderson


Summary: [Alan Orr Anderson (1879?1958) was a Scottish historian and compiler. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh. The son of Rev. John Anderson and Ann Masson he was born in 1879. He was educated at Royal High School Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh. In 1908 after five years of work sponsored by the Carnegie Trust he published Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers a reasonably ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 88

The Bush Fire

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Alan Sullivan


Summary: [Edward Alan Sullivan (November 29 1868 ? August 6 1947) was a Canadian poet and author of short stories.]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 240

The Cycle Of The North

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Alan Sullivan


Summary: [Edward Alan Sullivan (November 29 1868 ? August 6 1947) was a Canadian poet and author of short stories.]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 293

The Last Patrol

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Alan Sullivan


Summary: [Many men have dreamed of world peace but none have been able to achieve it. If one man did have that power could mankind afford to pay the price?]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 424

The Passing Of Oul I But

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Alan Sullivan


Excerpts: [... igloo homes, Till the lost sun returns to melt The dark and rounded domes And again the bearded walrus dips Beneath the drifting floe, And ...... and screwing, till the flint point poked through, then she looked at Chan-tie with a grunt of satisfaction. It is good, but I am a fool! ...... the wall an old man lay on a deer-skin and stared at them with blank eyes. In the middle of ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 173

Under The Northern Lights

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Alan Sullivan


Summary: [Trade.--The eyes of Sebastien.--The spirit of the North.--The circuit of the wild swan.--The blindness of Pituluk.--Motherhood.--The magic of Kahdoosh.--The reward of Kwasind.--The loyalty of Peeguk.--The passing of Chantie the Curlew.--The affair of Kalauk the skilful hunter.--The salving of Pyack.]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 166

Last Days Of The Rebellion

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Alanson Randol


Excerpts: [... 9, 1865. BY ALANSON M. RANDOL Major First U. S. Artillery (late Colonel Second New York Cavalry), Bvt. Brig-General, U. S. Vols. ...... and unsurpassed marches and fortunes, joined the Army of the Potomac in front of Petersburg on the 27th of March. The Second New York Cavalry shared ...... forcing a passage through the rebel lines and heading off Lee's army, it contributed ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 419

The Van Dwellers

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Albert Bigelow Paine


Summary: [The Tent Dwellers is a book by Albert Bigelow Paine chronicling his travels through inland Nova Scotia on a trout fishing trip with Dr. Edward Eddie Breck and with guides Charles the Strong and Del the Stout one June in the early 1900s. Originally published in 1908 the book takes place in what is now Kejimkujik National Park (or Kedgeemakoogee as Paine spelled it) and the adjacent Tobeatic Game ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 406

Colonial Children

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Albert Bushnell Hart With Blanche Hazard


Summary: [Albert Bushnell Hart Ph.D. (July 1 1854-July 16 1943) was an American historian writer and teacher. One of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States a prolific author and editor of historical works Albert Bushnell Hart became as Samuel Eliot Morison described him The Grand Old Man of American history looking the part with his patriarchal full beard and flowing ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 491

Camps And Firesides Of The Revolution

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Albert Bushnell Hart With Mabel Hill


Summary: [Albert Bushnell Hart Ph.D. (July 1 1854-July 16 1943) was an American historian writer and teacher. One of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States a prolific author and editor of historical works Albert Bushnell Hart became as Samuel Eliot Morison described him The Grand Old Man of American history looking the part with his patriarchal full beard and flowing ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 336

The Manipulation Of Human Behavior

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Albert Biderman


Excerpts: [... 45 -47, 55, 58, 60-61, 63 64, 67, 72, 74, 75, 77-78, 81, 89, 91, 111, 135, 137, 181, 213 Hill, H. E., 102, 137 Himwich, H. E., 120, 140 Hinkle, ...... of the future. His own conclusion was that armed forces could protect information from an enemy only by denying it to persons subject to capture ...... from subcortical stimulation might be so intense as to provide a basis for the ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 39

Ancient Mining On The Shores Of Lake Superior

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Albert Hagar


Excerpts: [... tracks in the snow, that a hedgehog had taken up his winter-quarters in a cavity of a ledge of rocks, about twelve miles from Ontonagon, Lake Superior, ...... one hundred miles. In some of the ancient diggings, the stone hammers have the marks of hard usage, fractured or battered faces, and a large ...... It seems hardly probable that one man could wield so ponderous a tool and ...]
Genres: [classicDownloads: 439
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