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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a public... ... these hills that the Delaware takes its rise; and flowing from the limpid lakes and thousand springs of this region the numerous sources of the Susqu... ... thriving vil- lages are found interspersed along the margins of the small lakes, or situated at those points of the streams which are favorable for m... ...little a perfect empiric in his profession, being in the constant habit of listening to his trea- tises on architecture with a kind of indulgent smile... ...asure to his extraordinary growth, which, leaving him pale, inanimate, and listless, induced his tender mother to pro- nounce him “a sickly boy , and ... ...by sitting opposite to you.” “T o be sure I do,” cried Richard. “Here is a turkey to carve; and I flatter myself that I understand carving a turkey , ... ...le judgment of Remarkable. Before Elizabeth was placed an enormous roasted turkey, and before Richard one boiled, in the centre of the table stood a p...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ... this one gives. The first night we were there, we went to bed and to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable... ...or. Well, one Sunday morning 13 A Tramp Abroad I was sitting out here in front of my cabin, with my cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hill... ...odel and Its Native Wilds THE RIGI-KULM IS an imposing Alpine mass, six thousand feet high, which stands by itself, and commands a mighty pros- pect o... ...mile—was very quaint and curious. Counties, towns, hilly ribs and ridges, wide stretches of green meadow, great forest tracts, winding streams, a doze... ...hing; but they don’t do that, they pass the sliced meat around on a dish, and so you are perfectly calm, it does not stir you in the least. Now a vast... ...ith real cream. New Orleans. American butter. Black- bass from the Mississippi. Fried chicken, Southern style. American roast beef. Porterhouse steak....

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...My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...thern tongue, and gave great offence to his lord- ship, who was used to be listened to with a sort of feudal deference. He was of the fierce old Norse... ...d not even know whether their mothers were alive; but I saw that if I only listened, Eustace would soon tell everything. He had a run- away chin, and ... ...and looked out of those great dark eyes, whose colour was like that of the lakes of which each drop is clear and limpid, and yet, when you look down i... ...lay until Harold, reduced to extremity at sight of one delicate shaving of turkey’s breast, burst out, “I say, Richardson, I must have some food. Cut ... ... such receipt for an appetite as shoot- ing in the snow. I remember when a turkey’s leg would have been nothing to me, after being out duck-shooting i...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... of intention may be made or naturalizations effected to send periodically lists of the names of the persons naturalized or declaring their intention ... ...nowledgment justly includes those consuls who, residing in Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Japan, China, and other Oriental countries, are charged with comple... ...te Commander D. D. Por- ter to be a rear-admiral in the Navy on the active list from the 4th July, 1863, to fill an existing vacancy. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.... ... must hold themselves at liberty to increase their naval armament upon the Lakes if they shall find that proceeding necessary. The condition of the b...

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Excerpt: The Tragedy of Pudd?nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

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...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ... something.” But Laura, preoccupied with looking for the Cresslers, hardly listened. Aunt Wess’, whose count was confused by all these figures murmure... ...m closely during their interview in the vestibule, but now, as she sat and listened to him talk, she could not help being a little attracted. He was a... ... was Empire, the resistless subjugation of all this cen- tral world of the lakes and the prairies. Here, mid-most in the land, beat the Heart of the N... ...f newspaper business there. It seems that it’s a pretty crazy proposition, Turkey and the Sultan and all that. He said that there was nearly a row ove... ...out that Higgins-Pasha affair? You remem- ber that row between England and Turkey. They tell me the British agent in Constantinople put it pretty stra... ... delicious. It was yet too early for the exodus northward to the Wisconsin lakes, but to stay in- doors after nightfall was not to be thought of. Afte...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...her-in-law. “If you will give me a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, and some list braces, so as not to disgrace Vermichel on the mu- sic stand at Tivoli... ...ges of France cannot be reached. They make it a law unto themselves not to listen to us; whereas the church does get some hold on the savages of Ameri... ...the park of Soulanges, where it feeds various other streams and artificial lakes, the Thune falls into the Avonne through a fine broad channel. The ch... ...ine the subjects he takes up,—a perfect jumble, absolutely unintelligible,—lakes, stars, waves, billows! not a single philosophical image, not even a ... ...f those princes of color. There were old women with necks 271 Balzac like turkeys, and hairless, scarlet eyelids, who stretched their heads forward l...

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...Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ust remember that your hasty brawling streams do not reflect like tranquil lakes.’ 14 Scenes and Characters ‘One of Lily’s poetical hits, I declare!’... ...ich Lily intended her sis- ter to govern the household, and to which Emily listened without knowing what she meant much better than she did herself. E... ...olroom table with her work, and summoned every one, however oc- cupied, to listen to the reading. CHAPTER IV—HONEST P CHAPTER IV—HONEST P CHAPTER IV—H... ...that she heard Cousin Rotherwood talk- ing, and it proved to be Jane’s old turkey cock gobbling.’ ‘No bad compliment,’ said Emily, ‘for Phyllis was on... ... compliment,’ said Emily, ‘for Phyllis was once known to say, on hearing a turkey cock, “How melodiously that nightingale sings.”’ ‘No, no! that was A...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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...sics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r the fashion of their sex, highly trained in promoting men’s talk without listening to it, could think—about the education of children, about the use... ...swamp. ’ Again and again my words have proved true. But d’you suppose they listen to me when I tell ‘em so, when I point out the consequences, the con... ... in her sensible way to say that she was enjoying a very jolly time in the Lakes. “They are looking exceedingly pretty just now. I have seldom seen th... ...rgyman, a bishop even, nay, the Archbishop himself, and she gobbles like a turkey-cock. I’ve been told it’s a family feud—something to do with an ance... ...carts and ramshackle flies which carried parties of fes- tive peasants, or turkeys swelling unevenly like a bundle of air balls beneath a net, or the ...

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...blication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...pes many troubles which befall and vex his white brother. He seldom has to listen to lectures on propriety of behavior, or on any- thing else. He is n... ...re kitchens, wash-houses, dairies, summer-house, green-houses, hen-houses, turkey-houses, pigeon-houses, and arbors, of many sizes and devices, all ne... ... a part of the system, rather than a part of the man. Were slaveholders to listen to complaints of this sort against the overseers, the luxury of owni... ...ll kinds, wild and tame, the common, and the huge Muscovite; Guinea fowls, turkeys, geese, and pea fowls, are in their several pens, fat and fatting f... ... her grand old woods, her fertile fields, her beautiful rivers, her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy i...

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...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... them thither? Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down ... ...s mast- 56 Moby Dick head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more aw... ...ptain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in col... ...s to all his friends, just as though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys. After all, I do not think that my remarks about religion made much... ...solid head, which towers between them like a great mountain separating two lakes in valleys; this, of course, must wholly separate the im- pressions w... ...its thousand pipes? For a carpet to the organ we have a rug of the softest Turkey—the tongue, which is glued, as it were, to the floor of the mouth. I...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House whi...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...tramping along the road singing; the reapers gathered in the venta gateway listening to “Felixmarte of Hircania” read out to them; and those little Ho... ...emporaries. In some of the others there is a good deal of exaggeration. To listen to most of his biographers one would suppose that all Spain was in l... ... though it be bread and 89 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. onions, than the turkeys of those other tables where I am forced to chew slowly, drink littl... ...me time to investigate and explore the origin and true source of the seven lakes com- monly called the lakes of Ruidera. Don Diego and his son commend... ... in con- ducting him to the mouth of the very cave, and would show him the lakes of Ruidera, which were likewise famous all over La Mancha, and even a...

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Excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...e Quincey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...October 1821. SO THEN, Oxford Street, stony-hearted step-mother! thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans and drinkest the tears of children, at le... ... viz., on T uesday and Saturday, and might safely be depended upon for—the list of bankrupts.” In like man- ner, I do by no means deny that some truth... ...rant, for in my time East Indian opium has been three guineas a pound, and Turkey 42 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater eight. And thirdly, that i... ...in a solid and liquid shape, both boiled and unboiled, both East India and Turkey—who have conducted my ex- periments upon this interesting subject wi... ...to have known the virtues of opium. To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery expanses of water: these haunted me so much that I feared... ... very dangerous. The waters now changed their character—from translu- cent lakes shining like mirrors they now became seas and oceans. And now came a ...

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...Excerpt: I have made so ill use of your former favors, as by them to be encouraged to entreat, that they may be enlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book: and I have put on a modest confidence, that I shall not be denied, because it is a discour...

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...er by Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document File is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...e Hobby and Jack: There is the Stelletto of Spain, The Blood red Rook from Turkey, The Waskite from Virginia: And there is of short winged Hawks, The ... ...rse. in war and wantonness The Compleat Angler — Walton 35 Let them that list, these pastimes still pursue, And on such pleasing fancies feed their ... ...rse, into the sea profound; The raging sea, beneath the vallies low, Where lakes, and rills, and rivulets do flow: The lofty woods, the forests wide a... ... the sad yellow fly in June: the body is made of black wool, with a yellow list on either side; and the wings taken off the wings of a buzzard, bound ... ...the Pike, and save himself, the Perch will set up his fins, much like as a turkey cock will sometimes set up his tail. But, my scholar, the Perch is n...

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...Excerpt: To Maria, may your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornament of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless t...

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