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Mrs. Arthur (Vol. 1 of 3)

Young Curtis sat uneasily while all this went on, like a dog in leash, watching his opportunity to start. The sudden insight which had come to him with the entrance of his friend upon this scene was s..

Mrs. Arthur (Vol. 2 of 3)

Mrs. Oliphant

Poor Arthur! he thought of his sister’s little simple toilettes, so fresh, so crisp, so plain! and he did not know—what foolish young man ever does know? that whereas the finery is an easy matter, the..

Mrs. Arthur (Vol. 3 of 3)

Mrs. Oliphant

In two years from this time, strangely enough, the Bates family and almost all trace of them disappeared from Underhayes. Nothing had happened to them for all Nancy’s lifetime till her marriage—nothin..

The Cosmic Looters

Alexander Blade

Wyatt did not stop to think. He rushed up the stair after her and it began to draw itself up as he did so, folding him under, so that he thought he was going to have to jump clear or be crushed. There..

Arms and Armor of the Pilgrims, 1620-1692

Harold L. Peterson

The military supplies which the Pilgrims brought with them may be divided into three major categories: defensive armor, edged weapons, and projectile weapons. A completely armed man, especially in the..

Ecclesiastical History of England, The Church of the Restoration, Vol. 1 of 2

John Stoughton

Puritanism must be considered under its ecclesiastical as well as its political aspect. It became political through its ecclesiastical action, and its ecclesiastical character has been damaged by its ..

The Age of Justinian and Theodora, Volume 1 (of 2)

William Gordon Holmes

Excellent accounts, however, of Justinian are to be found in some general histories of the Byzantine Empire as well as in several biographical dictionaries, whilst monographs of greater or lesser exte..

The Ambassador's Pet