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81Author:  Fox, JohnAdd
 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.
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82Author:  Fox, John, 1863-1919Add
 Title:  The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE days of that April had been days of mist and rain. Sometimes, for hours, there would come a miracle of blue sky, white cloud, and yellow light, but always between dark and dark the rain would fall and the mist creep up the mountains and steam from the tops—only to roll together from either range, drip back into the valleys, and lift, straightway, as mist again. So that, all the while Nature was trying to give lustier life to every living thing in the lowland Bluegrass, all the while a gaunt skeleton was stalking down the Cumberland— tapping with fleshless knuckles, now at some unlovely cottage of faded white and green, and now at a log cabin, stark and gray. Passing the mouth of Lonesome, he flashed his scythe into its unlifting shadows and went stalking on. High up, at the source of the dismal little stream, the point of the shining blade darted thrice into the open door of a cabin set deep into a shaggy flank of Black Mountain, and three spirits, within, were quickly loosed from aching flesh for the long flight into the unknown.
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83Author:  Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930Add
 Title:  Humble Pie  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THERE are some people who never during their whole lives awake to a consciousness of themselves, as they are recognized by others; there are some who awake too early, to their undoing, and the flimsiness of their characters; there are some who awake late with a shock, which does not dethrone them from their individuality, but causes them agony, and is possibly for their benefit. Maria Gorham was one of the last, and for the first time in her life she saw herself reflected mercilessly in the eyes of her kind one summer in a great mountain hotel. She had never been aware that she was more conceited than others, that she had had on the whole a better opinion of her external advantages at least, than she deserved, but she discovered that her self-conceit had been something which looked to her monstrous and insufferable. She saw that she was not on the surface what she had always thought herself to be, and she saw that the surface has always its influence on the depths.
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84Author:  Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930Add
 Title:  The Yates Pride  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: OPPOSITE Miss Eudora Yates's old colonial mansion was the perky modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a daughter, Ethel, and an un-married sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All three were fond of talking, and had many callers who liked to hear the feebly effervescent news of Well-wood. This afternoon three ladies were there: Miss Abby Simson, Mrs. John Bates, and Mrs. Edward Lee. They sat in the Glynn sitting-room, which shrilled with treble voices as if a flock of sparrows had settled therein.
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85Author:  Le Gallienne, RichardAdd
 Title:  The Quest of the Golden Girl  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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86Author:  Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.Add
 Title:  Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume II.  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: FIRST MEETING WITH SECRETARY STANTON--GENERAL ROSECRANS--COMMANDING MILITARY DIVISION OF MISSISSIPPI-- ANDREW JOHNSON'S ADDRESS--ARRIVAL AT CHATTANOOGA.
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87Author:  Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.Add
 Title:  Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume I.  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD.
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88Author:  Griggs, Sutton Elbert, 1872-1933Add
 Title:  Imperium In Imperio  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I am a traitor. I have violated an oath that was as solemn and binding as any ever taken by man on earth.
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89Author:  Haggard, H. RiderAdd
 Title:  Montezuma's Daughter  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Now glory be to God who has given us the victory! It is true, the strength of Spain is shattered, her ships are sunk or fled, the sea has swallowed her soldiers and her sailors by hundreds and by thousands, and England breathes again. They came to conquer, to bring us to the torture and the stake--to do to us free Englishmen as Cortes did by the Indians of Anahuac. Our manhood to the slave bench, our daughters to dishonour, our souls to the loving-kindness of the priest, our wealth to the Emperor and the Pope! God has answered them with his winds, Drake has answered them with his guns. They are gone, and with them the glory of Spain.
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90Author:  Haldeman-Julius, Emanuel and Anna Marcet Haldeman-JuliusAdd
 Title:  Dust  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: DUST was piled in thick, velvety folds on the weeds and grass of the open Kansas prairie; it lay, a thin veil on the scrawny black horses and the sharp-boned cow picketed near a covered wagon; it showered to the ground in little clouds as Mrs. Wade, a tall, spare woman, moved about a camp-fire, preparing supper in a sizzling skillet, huge iron kettle and blackened coffee-pot.
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91Author:  Harben, William NathanielAdd
 Title:  The Changing Sun / by Will N. Harben  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE balloon seemed scarcely to move, though it was slowly sinking toward the ocean of white clouds which hung between it and the earth.
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92Author:  Harrison, James A. ; William. E. Peters ; R. Heath DabneyAdd
 Title:  Address to the Students of the University of Virginia  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE TERRIBLE CALAMITY of Sunday, October 27th, has left the main building of our revered and beloved Alma Mater in ruins. The historic monuments of three-quarters of a century have been obliterated by the fury of the flames in a few hours, and nothing is left of our great Rotunda, our Public Hall, our Old Chapel, and our Academic Halls and Lecture-Rooms, hallowed by so many recollections precious to us all, except blackened walls. In this unspeakable calamity all that remains to us except brave hearts and unbroken spirits is the memory of the gallant and heroic conduct of the entire student body, without which nothing could have been saved from the Library and the Scientific halls in and adjacent to the Rotunda. We therefore desire, on behalf of the Faculty, to express to you collectively and individually, one and all, our profoundest gratitude and our warmest praise for your noble and admirable demeanor on this trying occasion, for your intense sym- pathy with us in our irreparable losses, and your manly and self-sacrificing co-operation in our endeavors to save something from the wreck, and rehabilitate the great institution consecrated by the name of Jefferson. We are perfectly sure that every man, every student, will continue to do his whole duty in the same splendid spirit of devotion to Alma Mater; that all will nobly stand by us in our misfortune; that all will work gladly and gallantly together without murmur and without complaint, and soon we shall behold our great Mother rising before us statelier, stronger than ever, the glory of Virginia, the glory of the entire South.
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93Author:  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864Add
 Title:  The House of the Seven Gables  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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94Author:  Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan, 1870-1942Add
 Title:  Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Caldwell Hegan.  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: MY, but it 's nice an' cold this mornin'! The thermometer 's done fell up to zero!"
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95Author:  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911Add
 Title:  Malbone: an Oldport romance  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: AS one wanders along this southwestern promontory of the Isle of Peace, and looks down upon the green translucent water which forever bathes the marble slopes of the Pirates' Cave, it is natural to think of the ten wrecks with which the past winter has strewn this shore. Though almost all trace of their presence is already gone, yet their mere memory lends to these cliffs a human interest. Where a stranded vessel lies, thither all steps converge, so long as one plank remains upon another. There centres the emotion. All else is but the setting, and the eye sweeps with indifference the line of unpeopled rocks. They are barren, till the imagination has tenanted them with possibilities of danger and dismay. The ocean provides the scenery and properties of a perpetual tragedy, but the interest arrives with the performers. Till then the shores remain vacant, like the great conventional arm-chairs of the French drama, that wait for Rachel to come and die.
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96Author:  Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679Add
 Title:  Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, a dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes. In which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist. Together with the nature, limits, and qualifications both of regiment and subjection.  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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97Author:  Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679Add
 Title:  Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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98Author:  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894Add
 Title:  The one-hoss shay, with its companion poems  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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99Author:  Housman, Alfred EdwardAdd
 Title:  A Shropshire Lad  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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100Author:  Hubbard, ElbertAdd
 Title:  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Business Men: John J. Astor  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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