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The sad curlews, annunciators of the autumn, had just appeared in a mass in a gray squall, fleeing from the high sea under the threat of approaching tempests.
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The sad curlews, annunciators of the autumn, had just appeared in a mass in a gray squall, fleeing from the high sea under the threat of approaching tempests.
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Category: Author:Natalie Sumner Lincoln
The Assistant District Attorney glanced down at the papers in his hand and then up at the well-dressed, stockily built man occupying the witness stand. His manner was conciliatory.
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Category: Author:乔治.艾略特 George Eliot
Daniel Deronda: a Victorian novel that's still controversial George Eliot shocked readers and critics with a final novel whose portrayal of Judaism and Zionism continues to resonate 'A peculiar ...The strange young man is Daniel Deronda, brought up with his own origins shrouded in mystery, searching for a compelling outlet for his sing...
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Category: Author:Herbert George Wells
The Sea Lady is a mermaid who ingratiates herself on an upper crust family who live by the seaside. She sets her sights on the dashing political hopeful in the family, plotting on taking him away from his fiancee and eventually his family.
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Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳
THE SURVIVORS OF THE CHANCELLOR was issued in 1875. Shipwrecks occur in other of Verne's tales; but this is his only story devoted wholly to such a disaster. In it the author has gathered all the tragedy, the mystery, and the suffering possible to the sea.
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Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳
Dick Sands, a youth of fifteen, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain. Nature’s forces combined with evil doings of men lead him and his companions to many dangerous adventures on sea and in Central Africa.
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Slowly on Morningside Heights rises the Cathedral of St. John the Divine: standing on a high rock under the Northern sky above the long wash of the untroubled sea, above the wash of the troubled waves of men.
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Category: Author:Booth Tarkington布思·塔金顿
For a lucky glimpse of the great Talbot Potter, the girls who caught it may thank that conjunction of Olympian events which brings within the boundaries of one November week the Horse Show and the roaring climax of the football months and the more dulcet, yet vast, beginning of the opera season.
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The House-boat of the Associated Shades, formerly located upon the River Styx, as the reader may possibly remember, had been torn from its moorings and navigated out into unknown seas by that vengeful pirate Captain Kidd, aided and abetted by some of the most ruffianly inhabitants of Hades.
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The Curlytops in the Woods Howard R Garis. Published by Cupples & Leon Company, 1923. The series, published from 1918-1932 by Cupples and Leon, tells the adventures of the nauseating "Curlytops"
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