With bursting heart, with fiery face, She strove against him in the race; He unabashed her garter ...
2011-12-05
The hum of city cabs that sought the Bois, Suburban ashes shivered into song. A patter and a chatt...
seemed all upright and simple people. The Plymouth Brother hung round me with a sort of yearning in...
when I remember that I descanted principally on my appetite, and that it must have been by that tim...
this untimely hour, were already beginning the uncomforted labours of their day. The dead in life -...
regret, but yet with the glee of the traveller who shakes off the dust of one stage before hurrying...
Vivarais. A solemn glee possessed my mind at this gradual and lovely coming in of day. I heard the ...
not wish to read again. I hurried over my lunch, and was proof against the landlady's desire that ...
all had been Sabbath peace among the mountains. There must have been near a score of us at dinner b...
'Sir,' said I, with my most commanding manners, 'you are a coward.' And with that I turned my back ...
drooping foliage like the willow; of how they stand on upright fluted columns like the pillars of a...
from Cheylard to Luc; and second, my road lay through one of the most beggarly countries in the wor...
again.' Harker glanced, from the depths of his humiliation, at the speaker. He beheld a powerful, ...
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson. My Dear Sidney Colvin, The journ...
see us together; and really, do you know, I am very much obliged to him, for this is about the luck...