The Power-House
Category: Author:John Buchan
It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916.
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Category: Author:John Buchan
It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916.
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Category: Author:Joseph A. Altsheler
The wilderness rolled away to north and to south, and also it rolled away to east and to west, an unbroken sweep of dark, glossy green. Straight up stood the mighty trunks, but the leaves rippled and sang low when a gentle south wind breathed upon them. It was the forest as God made it, the magnificent valley of North America, up...
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Category: Author:达尔文 Charles Darwin
THE chief object of the present work is to describe and connect together several large classes of movement, common to almost all plants. The most widely prevalent movement is essentially of the same nature as that of the stem of a climbing plant, which bends successively to all points of the compass, so that the tip revolves. Thi...
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Category: Author:novel
Away over the dark, wild waves of the rolling Atlantic—away beyond the summer islands of the Western Ind—lies a lovely land. Its surface-aspect carries the hue of the emerald; its sky is sapphire; its sun is a globe of gold. It is the land of Anahuac!
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Brackley Hall was a fine old place in the lovely country of Devon and had been in the possession of the Etheridges for centuries.
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Category: Author:novel
When narrating to friendly audiences my experiences in the early days of the Colony of Victoria in what may be termed the \"gold era,\" and some of the various incidents which occurred during my connection with the Victorian police, I have often been asked to give the records of them a more permanent form. After hesitating long, I have...
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Category: Author:novel
“And who is this young widow of yours whom I hear so much about? I understand Lucy’s rapture over any stranger; but you, too, mother—”
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Category: Author:Edgar Wallace
If a man is not eager for adventure at the age of twenty-two, the enticement of romantic possibilities will never come to him. The chairman of the Ukraine Oil Company looked with a little amusement at the young man who sat on the edge of a chair by the chairman's desk, and noted how the eye of the youth had kindled at every fresh disc...
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Category: Author:novel
A church of the revolution swept through Mexico, affected the remote southern small states. The local parish priest persecuted by the death, leaving only the last one of the priests have a fugitive life. In the process of escaping, he came into contact with different things and people, the heart by the impact of the strong. Finally, he...
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