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Excerpt: Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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.... 4 CHAPTER I ? DOMESTIC ANNALS...........................................................................................11 CHAPTER II ? THE SERVICE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS I ......................................... 32 CHAPTER III ? THE BUILDING OF THE BELL ROCK ....................................................... 57...

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...uis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the ... ...ity. 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... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State ... ..., at least, of my exultation at the fact that he was knighted and recorded arms. Not quite so genteel, but still in public life, Hugh was Under-Clerk ... ...ed; then the enemy took me by the arm-pits, and seemed to lift me up by my arms. I saw a loch just before me, and I concluded he designed to throw me ... ...in the firelit cellar, placed ‘in casey or straw- worked chairs, after the Norwegian fashion, with arms, and a canopy overhead,’ and given milk in a w... ... lower part of the principal beams, before being laid over with successive coats of boiling pitch, to the height of from eight to twelve feet, or as h... ...ing prepared a quan- tity of tarpaulin, or cloth laid over with successive coats of hot tar, the joiners had just completed the covering of the roof w... ...ther the whole exterior of this temporary residence was painted with three coats of white-lead paint. Between the timber framing of the habit- able pa...

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...ics Series Publication Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...as a very ac- tive lad, fair-haired, freckled, with a touch of the Dane or Norwegian about him. “Can I have my dinner, mother?” he cried, rushing in w... ...s- siping at the corners of the alley, as the twilight sank, folding their arms under their white aprons. Mrs. Morel was alone, but she was used to it... .... Morel. “Yea, he is though! Why, he ran that dancing-class in the Miners’ Arms club-room for over five year.” “Did he?” “Yes, he did.” The other woma... ...ly had arrived, and were heard talking in a corner, as they took off their coats and rolled up their shirt-sleeves. It was ten past eight. Evidently t... ...im; he could see particularly the shirt-breast. Dawes stumbled over Paul’s coats, then came rushing forward. The young man’s mouth was bleeding. It wa... ...de him sick and dazed, but his brain was clear. Reeling, he groped for his coats and got them on, but- toning his overcoat up to his ears. It was some...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am... ... unable to pay for all the dinners which you have actually eaten, or for the coats and shoes which are fast wearing or are already worn out, and have ... ...omy 13 respectable, but what is respected. We know but few men, a great many coats and breeches. Dress a scarecrow in your last shift, you standing sh... ...e them do. Only they who go to soir´ ees and legislative halls must have new coats, coats to change as often as the man changes in them. But if my jac... ...at one end, bringing two cartloads of stones up the hill from the pond in my arms. I built the chimney after my hoeing in the fall, before a fire becam... ...er for their amusement. John heaved a sigh at this, and his wife stared with arms a kimbo, and both appeared to be wondering if they had capital enoug... ...r inches in diameter, which had been gnawed by mice the previous winter, — a Norwegian winter for them, for the snow lay long and deep, and they were ...

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in England. Then they had gone abroad, takin...

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...ries Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... though a man should be suddenly called upon to live without hands or even arms. He was helpless, and knew himself to be helpless. Hitherto he had nev... ...te as a matter of course. ’ ‘So I understand. ’ ‘And there she died,—in my arms. I will not try to ha- rass you by telling you what those few days wer... ...pon his heel and left the room. The Duke seated himself, and, crossing his arms upon his chest, sat for an hour looking up at the ceiling. Why was it ... ...oduced in the drawing-room,—and who had said a few words to her about some Norwegian poet. She turned round to him, and asked him some questions about... ...tle preju- dices;—you can understand that. ’ ‘Oh yes. ’ ‘We who wear black coats could not bring ourselves readily to put on scarlet garments; nor sho...

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...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ity. 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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ... C D is the new pier. A the schooner ashore. B the salmon house. She was a Norwegian: coming in she saw our first gauge- pole, standing at point E. No... ... I was told – ‘Hier ist unser kloster!’ and the speaker motioned with both arms round the tap- room. Although the first torrent was exhausted, yet the... ...unlit street, and the two town servants strutting in front of them, in red coats and cocked hats, and with the halberts most con- spicuously shouldere... ...rettes, occupies divers chairs for divers brief spaces, and casts his huge arms to the four winds like the sails of a mill. He is a most sportive Prin... ...– 1+4+7.5 = 12.5 hours and being (9 A.M.) very anxious to sleep again. The arms of Porpus, quoi! A poppy gules, etc. From Stobo you can conquer Peeble...