The Bad Little Owls
Category: Author:John Breck
The Woodsfolk Learn the Rules about Fire
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Category: Author:Lester del Rey
The air of the city's cheapest flophouse was thick with the smells of harsh antiseptic and unwashed bodies. The early Christmas snowstorm had driven in every bum who could steal or beg the price of admission, and the long rows of cots were filled with fully clothed figures. Those who could afford the extra dime were huddled under thin...
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Category: Author:Stephen Crane史蒂芬·克莱恩
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
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Category: Author:novel
Paris smiled, for an hour or two, in the year 1801, when, amidst Napoleon's mighty projects for remodelling the religion and government of his empire, the ironical satirist, Sylvain Maréchal, thrust in his "Plan for a Law prohibiting the Alphabet to Women."[1] Daring, keen, sarcastic, learned, the little tract re...
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Category: Author:novel
Of course, Benny Badger had the best of reasons for living on the high, dry plains. There he had for neighbors plenty of ground squirrels and prairie dogs. And it is likely that he enjoyed their company much more than they did his.
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Category: Author:novel
Bill Hardwick was as fine a specimen of an Australian as you could find in a day\'s march. Active as a cat and strong withal, he was mostly described as \'a real good all-round chap, that you couldn\'t put wrong at any kind of work that a man could be asked to do.\'
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Category: Author:novel
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The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. [bbe] The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been...
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Category: Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich
This is the story of a bad boy. Well, not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know, for I am, or rather I was, that boy myself. Lest the title should mislead the reader, I hasten to assure him here that I have no dark confessions to make. I call my story the story of a bad boy, partly to distinguish myself from...
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