The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour Whilst the burghers of the Hague were tearing in pieces the bo...
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hand; but as it was turned the wrong way, he broke his arm just above the wrist. Cornelius rushed ...
Boxtel had not the good fortune of being rich, like Van Baerle. He had therefore, with great care a...
Baerle's beds tulips which dazzled him by their beauty, and almost choked him by their perfection! ...
meant, and, on being informed of the cause of all this stir, climbed up to his post of observation,...
"Sir, it is Craeke." "Craeke! the confidential servant of Mynheer John de Witt? Good, let him wait...
"You would open the door?" "No, I should allow it to be forced." "But they will kill me!" "Yes, i...
he perhaps have yielded to the mere desire of vengeance which was gnawing at his heart, had not the...
useless to go any farther; we are lost!" "Here they are! here they are!" five hundred voices were ...
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 1 A Grateful People On the 20th of August, 1672, the ...
at the same time crushing instrument, -- "moreover, will there not, from the Buytenhof to the gate ...
The spear is in the heart: with blood imbrued Young mothers wail aloud, For children at their brea...
redoubled clamour and horrible threats, to which the Count opposed the most perfect urbanity. "Gen...
Beats back the wintered serpent's venom'd fang. And next, by her, is Oenops' gallant son, Hyperbiu...
nature and importance of the deposit which I have intrusted to him." "Quick then," cried John, "as...