The crowd applauded and howled with joy. HE knew it, he who had commanded them over yonder, and had...
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the brass plates of which were tearing the purple of the couch. A necklace of silver moons was tang...
of Carthaginians, who were dressed in garments of black. The sailors' tunics showed like drops of b...
appeared a line of walls resting on white rocks and blending with them. Suddenly the entire city ro...
blazing thunderbolt, hurled in might from its holy home, smite the barque of Menelaus full amidship...
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HECUBA From my own dear country, to dwell beneath a master's roof. Woe is me! O Priam, Priam, unbu...
A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert CHAPTER I For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque ha...
It was a bull which was hidden from them by the fog. He advanced towards the two women, and Madame ...
the Ursulines at Honfleur. The child made no objection, but Felicite sighed and thought Madame was...
Malaga wine, and Virginia, laughing at the idea of becoming intoxicated, would drink a few drops of...
cigar in his face; another time, Madame Lormeau was teasing him with the tip of her umbrella and he...
Her eyesight grew dim. She did not open the shutters after that. Many years passed. But the house d...
Herodias by Gustave Flaubert CHAPTER I In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Ma...
farther side of Machaerus disappeared behind the castle; others ascended from the valleys, and afte...
O the eternity of woe thy minute's tale proclaims! TEIRESIAS Yes to thee, but to thy country great...