Bookbag (0)
Search:
UVA-LIB-Text in subject [X]
1996::01 in date [X]
Modify Search | New Search
Results:  1706 ItemsBrowse by Facet | Title | Author
Sorted by:  
Page: Prev  ...  6 7 8 9 10   ...  Next
Date
collapse1996
collapse01
01 (1706)
161Author:  Oskison, John M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Man Who Interfered  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: UNTIL long after midnight Jim Freeman sat reading a battered, graceful old volume containing "Troilus and Cressida" and "Julius Caesar"—a book bound in leather for a Gentleman of Virginia in 1771, and strayed from its mates of the set generations ago. Its type was bold and clear, fit for failing eyes to peruse.
 Similar Items:  Find
162Author:  Oskison, John M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Problem of Old Harjo  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE Spirit of the Lord had descended upon old Harjo. From the new missionary, just out from New York, he had learned that he was a sinner. The fire in the new missionary's eyes and her gracious appeal had convinced old Harjo that this was the time to repent and be saved. He was very much in earnest, and he assured Miss Evans that he wanted to be baptized and received into the church at once. Miss Evans was enthusiastic and went to Mrs. Rowell with the news. It was Mrs. Rowell who had said that it was no use to try to convert the older Indians, and she, after fifteen years of work in Indian Territory missions, should have known. Miss Evans was pardonably proud of her conquest.
 Similar Items:  Find
163Author:  Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911Requires cookie*
 Title:  Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE child's dead," said Nora, the nurse. It was the upstairs sitting-room in one of the pretentious houses of Sutherland, oldest and most charming of the towns on the Indiana bank of the Ohio. The two big windows were open; their limp and listless draperies showed that there was not the least motion in the stifling humid air of the July afternoon. At the center of the room stood an oblong table; over it were neatly spread several thicknesses of white cotton cloth; naked upon them lay the body of a newborn girl baby. At one side of the table nearer the window stood Nora. Hers were the hard features and corrugated skin popularly regarded as the result of a life of toil, but in fact the result of a life of defiance to the laws of health. As additional penalties for that same self-indulgence she had an enormous bust and hips, thin face and arms, hollow, sinew-striped neck. The young man, blond and smooth faced, at the other side of the table and facing the light, was Doctor Stevens, a recently graduated pupil of the famous Schulze of Saint Christopher who as much as any other one man is responsible for the rejection of hocus-pocus and the injection of common sense into American medicine. For upwards of an hour young Stevens, coat off and shirt sleeves rolled to his shoulders, had been toiling with the lifeless form on the table. He had tried everything his training, his reading and his experience suggested—all the more or less familiar devices similar to those indicated for cases of drowning. Nora had watched him, at first with interest and hope, then with interest alone, finally with swiftly deepening disapproval, as her compressed lips and angry eyes plainly revealed. It seemed to her his effort was degenerating into sacrilege, into defiance of an obvious decree of the Almighty. However, she had not ventured to speak until the young man, with a muttered ejaculation suspiciously like an imprecation, straightened his stocky figure and began to mop the sweat from his face, hands and bared arms.
 Similar Items:  Find
164Author:  Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911Requires cookie*
 Title:  Grain of Dust.  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: INTO the offices of Lockyer, Sanders, Benchley, Lockyer & Norman, corporation lawyers, there drifted on a December afternoon a girl in search of work at stenography and typewriting. The firm was about the most important and most famous — radical orators often said infamous — in New York. The girl seemed, at a glance, about as unimportant and obscure an atom as the city hid in its vast ferment. She was blonde — tawny hair, fair skin, blue eyes. Aside from this hardly conclusive mark of identity there was nothing positive, nothing definite, about her. She was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, neither grave nor gay. She gave the impression of a young person of the feminine gender — that, and nothing more. She was plainly dressed, like thousands of other girls, in darkish blue jacket and skirt and white shirt waist. Her boots and gloves were neat, her hair simply and well arranged. Perhaps in these respects — in neatness and taste — she did excel the average, which is depressingly low. But in a city where more or less strikingly pretty women, bent upon being seen, are as plentiful as the blackberries of Kentucky's July — in New York no one would have given her a second look, this quiet young woman screened in an atmosphere of self-effacement.
 Similar Items:  Find
165Author:  Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Price She Paid.  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: HENRY GOWER was dead at sixty-one—the end of a lifelong fraud which never had been suspected, and never would be. With the world, with his acquaintances and neighbors, with his wife and son and daughter, he passed as a generous, warm-hearted, good-natured man, ready at all times to do anything to help anybody, incapable of envy or hatred or meanness. In fact, not once in all his days had he ever thought or done a single thing except for his own comfort. Like all intensely selfish people who are wise, he was cheerful and amiable, because that was the way to be healthy and happy and to have those around one agreeable and in the mood to do what one wished them to do. He told people, not the truth, not the unpleasant thing that might help them, but what they wished to hear. His family lived in luxurious comfort only because he himself was fond of luxurious comfort. His wife and his daughter dressed fashionably and went about and entertained in the fashionable, expensive way only because that was the sort of life that gratified his vanity. He lived to get what he wanted; he got it every day and every hour of a life into which no rain ever fell; he died, honored, respected, beloved, and lamented.
 Similar Items:  Find
166Author:  Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Tale of Mr. Tod  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: A 24-bit, 300 dpi image of a black and white drawing by Beatrix Potter. It depicts five rabbits peering over a rock and across a meadow at Mr. Tod, a fox, standing in the distance.
 Similar Items:  Find
167Author:  Romeyn, HenryRequires cookie*
 Title:  'Little Africa': The Last Slave Cargo Landed in the United States  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Among the passengers of the "Roger B. Taney," Captain Timothy Meaher, plying between Mobile and Montgomery, Ala. in April, 1858, were a number of Northern gentlemen returning to their homes after a winter spent in the South. The trip occupied several days, and as might have been expected, the slavery question was a fruitful theme of discussion. Captain Meaher, though born in Gardiner, Maine, had removed, when a mere lad, to the Gulf States, and accumulated quite a fortune for those days; a large portion of which was in "chattels" employed on his half dozen steamboats, or on cotton plantations in the interior of the state, and in lumbering among the pines and cypress lands near the coast. Of course he was a defender of "the institution," and, in reply to the expressed belief of one of his passengers that "with the supply by importation from Africa cut off and any further spread in the Territories denied, the thing was doomed," he declared that, despite the stringent measures taken by most of the civilized powers to crush out the over-sea traffic, it could be still carried on successfully. In response to the disbelief expressed by his opponent, he offered to wager any amount of money that he would "import a cargo in less than two years, and no one be hanged for it."
 Similar Items:  Find
168Author:  Sandburg, CarlRequires cookie*
 Title:  Four Poems  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Similar Items:  Find
169Author:  Shelley, Percy ByssheRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Devil's Walk (Broadside version)  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Facsimile of the Broadside.
 Similar Items:  Find
170Author:  Sill, Alice H.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Man from Atlantis  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: HAVING finished reading Irving's "Legend of the Arabian Astrologer," I closed my book, and idly swinging in my hammock, was musing on those beautiful stories of the Alhambra.
 Similar Items:  Find
171Author:  Sousa, John PhilipRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Fifth String  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Similar Items:  Find
172Author:  Stetson, Charlotte PerkinsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Up and Down  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Image of page 478
 Similar Items:  Find
173Author:  Steedman, AmyRequires cookie*
 Title:  Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IT was more than six hundred years ago that a little peasant baby was born in the small village of Vespignano, not far from the beautiful city of Florence, in Italy. The baby's father, an honest, hard-working countryman, was called Bondone, and the name he gave to his little son was Giotto.
 Similar Items:  Find
174Author:  Austin review: Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936Requires cookie*
 Title:  Mary Austin  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: OUT in the great Southwest they say that the desert “gets” those who live there long enough, and they illustrate themselves the truth of that saying. They say, but they stay; they cannot come away.
 Similar Items:  Find
175Author:  Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  Seventeen  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Similar Items:  Find
176Author:  Teasdale, SaraRequires cookie*
 Title:  Rivers to the Sea  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Similar Items:  Find
177Author:  Titherington, Richard H.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Good Gray Poet  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Similar Items:  Find
178Author:  Tolstoy, Leo graf, 1828-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Forged Coupon And Other Stories  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Similar Items:  Find
179Author:  Tolstoy, Leo graf, 1828-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Similar Items:  Find
180Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
 Similar Items:  Find
Page: Prev  ...  6 7 8 9 10   ...  Next