| | 42 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | September 11th.—Lat. 81° 40' N.; long. 2° E. Still
lying-to amid enormous ice fields. The one which stretches away
to the north of us, and to which our ice-anchor is attached,
cannot be smaller than an English county. To the right and left
unbroken sheets extend to the horizon. This morning the mate
reported that there were signs of pack ice to the southward.
Should this form of sufficient thickness to bar our return, we
shall be in a position of danger, as the food, I hear, is
already running somewhat short. It is late in the season, and
the nights are beginning to reappear. This morning I saw a star
twinkling just over the fore-yard, the first since the beginning
of May. There is considerable discontent among the crew, many of
whom are anxious to get back home to be in time for the herring
season, when labour always commands a high price upon the Scotch
coast. As yet their displeasure is only signified by sullen
countenances and black looks, but I heard from the second mate
this afternoon that
they contemplated sending a deputation to the Captain to explain
their grievance. I much doubt how he will receive it, as he is a
man of fierce temper, and very sensitive about anything
approaching to an infringement of his rights. I shall venture
after dinner to say a few words to him upon the subject. I have
always found that he will tolerate from me what he would resent
from any other member of the crew. Amsterdam Island, at the
north-west corner of Spitzbergen, is visible upon our starboard
quarter—a rugged line of volcanic rocks, intersected by white
seams, which represent glaciers. It is curious to think that at
the present moment there is probably no human being nearer to us
than the Danish settlements in the south of Greenland—a good
nine hundred miles as the crow flies. A captain takes a great
responsibility upon himself when he
risks his vessel under such circumstances. No whaler has ever
remained in these latitudes till so advanced a period of the
year. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 45 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Parasite | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | March 24. The spring is fairly with us now.
Outside my laboratory window the great chestnut-tree is
all covered with the big, glutinous, gummy buds, some
of which have already begun to break into little green
shuttlecocks. As you walk down the lanes you are
conscious of the rich, silent forces of nature working
all around you. The wet earth smells fruitful and
luscious. Green shoots are peeping out everywhere.
The twigs are stiff with their sap; and the moist,
heavy English air
is laden with a faintly resinous
perfume. Buds in the hedges, lambs beneath them —
everywhere the work of reproduction going forward! | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 46 | Author: | Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Blue Flower | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall
ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare. Outside
the rattling windows there was a restless, whispering wind.
The room grew light, and dark, and wondrous light again, as
the moon played hide-and-seek through the clouds. The boy,
wide-awake and quiet in his bed, was thinking of the Stranger
and his stories. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 49 | Author: | Ferber, Edna | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Fanny Herself | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | You could not have lived a week in Winnebago without
being aware of Mrs. Brandeis. In a town of ten thousand,
where every one was a personality, from Hen Cody, the
drayman, in blue overalls (magically transformed on Sunday
mornings into a suave black-broadcloth usher at the
Congregational Church), to A. J. Dawes, who owned the
waterworks before the city bought it. Mrs. Brandeis was a
super-personality. Winnebago did not know it. Winnebago,
buying its dolls, and china, and Battenberg braid and
tinware and toys of Mrs. Brandeis, of Brandeis' Bazaar,
realized vaguely that here was some one different. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 50 | Author: | Field, Eugene | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AT this moment, when I am about to
begin the most important undertaking
of my life, I recall the sense of abhorrence
with which I have at different times
read the confessions of men famed for
their prowess in the realm of love. These
boastings have always shocked me, for I
reverence love as the noblest of the
passions, and it is impossible for me to conceive
how one who has truly fallen victim to its
benign influence can ever thereafter speak
flippantly of it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 53 | Author: | Fox, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Knight of the Cumberland | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HIGH noon of a crisp October day,
sunshine flooding the earth with
the warmth and light of old wine and,
going single-file up through the jagged
gap that the dripping of water has worn
down through the Cumberland Mountains
from crest to valley-level, a gray horse
and two big mules, a man and two young
girls. On the gray horse, I led the
tortuous way. After me came my small
sister—and after her and like her, mule-back, rode the Blight—dressed as she
would be for a gallop in Central Park or
to ride a hunter in a horse show. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 55 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Guest in Sodom | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | YES that was Benjamin Rice. He has been that way ever since the
affair of the automobile. His mind was run over and killed by that
machine, if minds can be run over and killed, and sometimes I think
they can. I have known Benjamin Rice ever since we were boys
together, and he was smart enough, but he never quite got through
his head the wickedness of the world he had been born into. He
thought everybody else was as good and honest as he was, and when
he found out he was mistaken, it was too much for him. His wife
feels just as I do about it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 56 | Author: | Furman, Lucy S. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Hard-Hearted Barbary Allen. A Kentucky Mountain Sketch. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ONE Friday morning when Miss Loring was setting forth to take the
corn to mill, the heads of the settlement school asked her to
extend her trip, make a day of it, and bring back some coverlets
and homespun from Aunt Polly Ann Wyant's, over on the head of Wace.
"Just follow Right Fork of Perilous until you come to Devon
Mountain, then cross over, and follow Wace for two or three miles,"
were the directions. How she was to know Devon from any other
mountain or Wace from any other creek was not explained. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 58 | Author: | Grinnell, George Bird | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Little Friend Coyote | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was in the summer when the Blackfoot and Piegan tribes were
camped together that the Blackfoot, Front Wolf, first noticed
Su-ye-sai-pi, a Piegan girl, and liked her, and determined to make her
his wife. She was young and handsome and of good family, and her
parents were well-to-do, for her father was a leading warrior of
his tribe. Front Wolf was himself a noted warrior, and had grown
rich from his forays on the camps of the enemy, so when he asked
for the young woman her parents were pleased—pleased to give their
daughter to such a strong young man, and pleased to accept the
thirty horses he sent them with the request. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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