fingers. He surrounded the head with a perfect halo of knives, and the neck with a collar from whic...
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perfumes of herbs, with the perfumes of grass-wrack, with the odor of the wild flowers, caresses th...
who work the miracle of changing that movement into noise, and by that metamorphosis give birth to ...
on the adventure as both comic and deplorable, and my position as ridiculous, fain to believe that ...
mouths of the Macaras. Tunis was his; but it was now nothing but a heap of smoking rubbish. The ru...
For a long time the officer looked at the sodden turf, and at the swollen Andelle beyond it, which ...
had set out from Carthage, and, for the purpose of placing themselves under the protection of somet...
under his nose. In spite of the rain, they left the window open, and one of them went to listen fr...
provinces, and all the rich. A great tumult prevailed below. Adjacent streets were discharging the ...
inferiors. The general had said: "One does not go to war in order to amuse oneself, and to caress p...
pale, stiff, with parted lips,--and her loosened hair hung to the ground. Thus died Hamilcar's dau...
Selected Writings by Guy De Maupassant A SELECTION from the WRITINGS of GUY DE MAUPASSANT SHORT S...
cynicism, both were excellent sons, irreproachable friends, indulgent masters, and both were idoliz...
allow one to call him a Meissonier in words. The school of romantic realism which was founded by Me...
syntagmata, killed one another with knives in a dispute about a rat. All regretted their families, ...