Daddy Takes Us Skating
Category: Author:Howard R. Garis
"Is my nose red?" asked Mab of some of her girl friends.
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Category: Author:Howard R. Garis
"Is my nose red?" asked Mab of some of her girl friends.
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Category: Author:novel
That is why so many people are forever getting into trouble. He won't keep still. No, Sir, he won't keep still unless he is made to. Once let him get started there is no knowing where he will stop. Peter Rabbit had just seen Jimmy Skunk disappear inside an old barrel, lying on its side at the top of the hill, and at once the Imp of Mis...
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Dr. Joseph MacNare was not the sort of person one would expect him to be in the light of what happened. Indeed, it is safe to say that until the summer of 1955 he was more "normal", better adjusted, than the average college professor. And we have every reason to believe that he remained so, in spite of having stepped ou...
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On one of the granitic peninsulas of Western Brittany stands the little town of Quilaix, situated in a hollow facing the sea. To the ordinary tourist the place presents few features of interest beyond its ivy-mantled church, whose doors bear the counterfeit presentment of fishes carved in oak: which fact, when added to the name o...
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Clara Heyward was dressed in deep mourning, and it was evident that the emblems of bereavement were not worn merely in compliance with a social custom. Her face was pallid from grief, and her dark beautiful eyes were dim from much weeping. She sat in the little parlor of a cottage located in a large Californian city, and listened with ...
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For the majority of men, and for at least thirty years of their lives, love is the strongest necessity, and governs them like a tyrant with no other curb than the wretched brake of written codes, which they do not read, and of social conventionalities, which they can easily silence by employing hypocrisy’s mask; an hypocrisy, let it be...
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Category: Author:Fergus Hume
You don't know?' repeated the coroner. 'Yet I presume you placed the skull on the table yourself so as to add to the effect of your fortune-telling?'
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The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw. O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! [bbe] How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send s...
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