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A piece-of-pie shaped room, built to utilize a scant, triangular space between two big warehouses, only a few feet wide at the front and no width at all at the rear.
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Category: Author:Anna Katharine Green
A plan for a daring robbery is hatched between a professional criminal and an unscrupulous office manager.
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
Fred Temple was a tall, handsome young fellow of about five-and-twenty.
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Category: Author:Eleanor H. Porter
The story is mainly a narration of a vacation which these six young girls spend in Texas at the 'Six Star Ranch, ' at the invitation of Mr. Hartley, its owner.
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Category: Author:Stephen Leacock
This work has remained popular for its universal appeal. Many of the characters, though modelled on townspeople of Orillia, are small town archetypes. Their shortcomings and weaknesses are presented in a humorous but affectionate way. Often, the narrator exaggerates the importance of the events in Mariposa compared to the rest of the ...
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Chapter One. Treats of Our Hero’s Early Life, and Touches on Domestic Matters.
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Category: Author:Joseph A. Altsheler
Mynheer Jacobus Huysman walked to the window and looked out at the neat red brick houses, the grass, now turning yellow, and the leaves, more brown than green. He was troubled, in truth his heart lay very heavy within him. He was thinking over the terrible news that had come so swiftly, as evil report has a way of doing. But he h...
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Jonner's hand dropped to his pistol and he edged cautiously behind a big rock as another groundcar appeared among the dunes to the south and approached the little group of men. He was sure Sir Stanrich had told him there were to be four others in his little task force: and there were four with him now.
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