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Chapter XXXVI (36) Panurge bargains with Dindeno for a Ram, and throws his Ram …

In Three Good Giants

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François Rabelais

As I went on, it did not take me long to discover that it was quite possible for my purpose—following, indeed, the path unconsciously taken …

In the Far North

In The Bolshevik Myth

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Alexander Berkman

The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922) is a book by Alexander Berkman who with his partner Emma Goldman was deported from the USA under the 19…

PART I. CHAPTER VII. PHYSICAL CULTURE FOR THE MIDDLE-AGED

In Strength and How to Obtain It

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Eugen Sandow

In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by streng…

Lillian Morris - Chapter 4

In Lillian Morris, and Other Stories

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Henryk Sienkiewicz

The nights were real Californian: calm, warm, starry; the fire burned cheerily, and in its gleam I saw the gigantic, but shapely and noble f…

General Introduction

In Little Masterpieces of Science - The Skies and The Earth

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George Iles

The Skies and the Earth is another in the series Little Masterpieces of Science edited by George Iles and published in 1902. It includes es…

Section 1

In The Queen Who Flew: A Fairy Tale

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Ford Madox Ford

In this delightful tale, the naive and sheltered Queen Eldrida learns the secret of flight from her friend the bat and sets off by air for a…

The Threat

In The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World

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Margaret Vandercook

Betty Ashton's world is not a happy one, at this point. Her mother is sick, the other girls are in New York, her boarders have left, and sh…

Grûl's Gift, part 1

In By the Marshes of Minas

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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

The Acadians around the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada, were removed by the British forcibly, leading to a French presence in several E…

Struck By an Iceberg - Part 1

In The Truth about the Titanic

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Archibald Gracie

Colonel Archibald Gracie was the first survivor of the sinking of the Titanic to die, and this first-hand account was published posthumously…

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