| | 23 | Author: | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Typhoon, and other stories  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | CAPTAIN MACWHIRR, of the steamer Nan-Shan, had a
physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances,
was the exact counterpart of his mind: it presented no
marked characteristics of firmness or stupidity; it had
no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply
ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 28 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Lost World | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MR. HUNGERTON, her father, really was
the most tactless person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a
man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely
centered upon his own silly self. If anything
could have driven me from Gladys, it would have
been the thought of such a father-in-law. I am
convinced that he really believed in his heart that
I came round to The Chestnuts three days a week
for the pleasure of his company, and very especially to hear his views upon bimetallism, a subject
upon which he was by way of being an authority. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 30 | Author: | Dyer, Frank Lewis and Thomas Commerford Martin | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | DURING the Hudson-Fulton celebration of October,
1909, Burgomaster Van Leeuwen, of Amsterdam,
member of the delegation sent officially from
Holland to escort the Half Moon and participate in
the functions of the anniversary, paid a visit to the
Edison laboratory at Orange to see the inventor, who
may be regarded as pre-eminent among those of
Dutch descent in this country. Found, as usual, hard
at work—this time on his cement house, of which he
showed the iron molds—Edison took occasion to remark
that if he had achieved anything worth while,
it was due to the obstinacy and pertinacity he had
inherited from his forefathers. To which it may be
added that not less equally have the nature of
inheritance and the quality of atavism been exhibited
in his extraordinary predilection for the miller's art.
While those Batavian ancestors on the low shores of
the Zuyder Zee devoted their energies to grinding grain,
he has been not less assiduous than they in reducing
the rocks of the earth itself to flour. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 32 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 40 | Author: | Locke, William John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Fortunate Youth | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PAUL KEGWORTHY lived with his mother, Mrs.
Button, his stepfather, Mr. Button, and six little
Buttons, his half brothers and sisters. His was
not an ideal home; it consisted in a bedroom, a
kitchen and a scullery in a grimy little house in
a grimy street made up of rows of exactly similar
grimy little houses, and forming one of a hundred
similar streets in a northern manufacturing town.
Mr. and Mrs. Button worked in a factory and took
in as lodgers grimy single men who also worked in
factories. They were not a model couple; they were
rather, in fact, the scandal of Budge Street,
which did not itself enjoy, in Bludston, a
reputation for holiness. Neither was good to look
upon. Mr. Button, who was Lancashire bred and
born, divided the yearnings of his spirit between
strong drink and dog-fights. Mrs. Button, a
viperous Londoner, yearned for noise. When Mr.
Button came home drunk he punched his wife about
the head and kicked her about the body, while they
both exhausted the vocabulary of vituperation of
North and South, to the horror and edification of
the neighbourhood. When Mr. Button was sober Mrs.
Button chastised little Paul. She would have done
so when Mr. Button was drunk, but she had not the
time. The periods, therefore, of his mother's
martyrdom were those of Paul's enfranchisement. If
he saw his stepfather
come down the street with steady gait, he fled in
terror; if he saw him reeling homeward he lingered
about with light and joyous heart. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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