| | 102 | Author: | Bunyan, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Pilgrim's Progress  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AS I WALKED THROUGH THE WILDERNESS OF THIS world, I lighted on
a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that
place to sleep: and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed,
and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain
place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and
a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the
book, and read therein; and, as he read, he wept, and trembled;
and, not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a
lamentable cry, saying, What shall I do? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 109 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | One Day at Arle | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ONE day at Arle — a tiny scattered fishing hamlet on the north-western English coast — there stood at the door of one of the
cottages near the shore a woman leaning against the lintel-post and
looking out: a woman who would have been apt to attract a
stranger's eye, too — a woman young and handsome. This was what a
first glance would have taken in; a second would have been apt to
teach more and leave a less pleasant impression. She was young
enough to have been girlish, but she was not girlish in the least.
Her tall, lithe, well-knit figure was braced against the door-post
with a tense sort of strength; her handsome face was just at this
time as dark and hard in expression as if she had been a woman with
years of bitter life behind her; her handsome brows were knit, her
lips were set; from head to foot she looked unyielding and stern of
purpose. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 110 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Beasts of Tarzan | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "THE ENTIRE AFFAIR is shrouded in mystery," said D'Arnot.
"I have it on the best of authority that neither the
police nor the special agents of the general staff have the
faintest conception of how it was accomplished. All they
know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas Rokoff has
escaped." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 111 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Chessmen of Mars | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SHEA had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as
usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might
by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by
calling his attention to the nth time to that theory,
propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the
assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to
be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over
seventy-two or the mentally defective — a theory that is lightly
ignored upon those rare occasions that I win. Shea had gone
to bed and I should have followed suit, for we are always
in the saddle here before sunrise; but instead I sat there
before the chess table in the library, idly blowing smoke at
the dishonored head of my defeated king. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 113 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Gods of Mars | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear
cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson
flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river
below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of
the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long
and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms
to carry me back to my lost love. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 114 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Little Princess | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick
and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the
shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little
girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the
big thoroughfares. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 116 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Lodusky | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THEY were rather an incongruous element amid the festivities,
but they bore themselves very well, notwithstanding, and seemed
to be sufficiently interested. The elder of the two—a tall,
slender, middle-aged woman with a somewhat severe, though
delicate face,—sat quietly apart, looking on at the tough dances
and games with a keen relish of their primitive uncouthness, but
the younger, a slight alert creature, moved here and there, her
large, changeable eyes looking larger through their glow of
excitement. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 117 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Lost Continent | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SINCE EARLIEST CHILDHOOD I HAVE BEEN
strangely fascinated by the mystery surrounding the history
of the last days of twentieth century Europe. My
interest is keenest, perhaps, not so much in relation to
known facts as to speculation upon the unknowable of
the two centuries that have rolled by since human
intercourse between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres
ceased — the mystery of Europe's state following
the termination of the Great War — provided, of course,
that the war had been terminated. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 118 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mère Giraud's Little Daughter | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "Prut!" said Annot, her sabots clattering loudly on the brick
floor as
she moved more rapidly in her wrath. "Prut! Madame Giraud,
indeed! There
was a time, and it was but two years ago, that she was but plain
Mere Giraud,
and no better than the rest of us; and it seems to me, neighbors,
that it is
not well to show pride because one has the luck to be favored by
fortune.
Where, forsooth, would our `Madame' Giraud stand if luck had not
given her a
daughter pretty enough to win a rich husband?" | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 120 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was Madame who first entered the box, and Madame was bright
with youthful bloom, bright with jewels, and, moreover, a beauty.
She was a little creature, with childishly large eyes, a low,
white forehead, reddish-brown hair, and Greek nose and mouth. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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