| | 281 | 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 |
| 282 | 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 |
| 285 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The White Company | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest
might be heard its musical clangor and swell, Peat-cutters on Blackdown
and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling
upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts—as
common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet
the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at
each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far
off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were
neither short nor long? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 286 | Author: | Draper, John William, 1811-1882 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | History of the Conflict between Religion and Science / By John William Draper . . . | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Religious condition of the Greeks in the fourth century before Christ.—
Their invasion of the Persian Empire brings them in contact with
new aspects of Nature, and familiarizes them with new religious systems.—
The military, engineering, and scientific activity, stimulated by
the Macedonian campaigns, leads to the establishment in Alexandria
of an institute, the Museum, for the cultivation of knowledge by
experiment, observation, and mathematical discussion.—It is the origin
of Science. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 295 | Author: | Dunbar, Alice | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Edouard | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PERE BOUTIN came down the sandy, pine-bordered walk with a
knotted brow and a gait that grew slower and slower. He was
perplexed and his forehead knitted more and more in a comical
assumption of dignity. Père Boutin thought that he was
dignified, but when one weighs two hundred pounds, and is short
and rolls in one's gait, is it reasonable to expect that the world will
be impressed by one's magnificence? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 296 | Author: | Dunbar, Alice | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Lesie, the Choir Boy | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OVER and above all things nature had been lavish to Lesie
Channing in the matter of a voice. It was a full, clear soprano with
rich tones in it that presaged a marvel of tone in later years. He
loved to sing. It was a pure joy to him to fill the hall and room of
his tenement home with the only tunes that he knew—"coon" songs
and music-hall ballads. But while he delighted in the sounds that he
made, no one had ever told Lesie that his voice was marvellous. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 297 | Author: | Dyer, Frank Lewis and Thomas Commerford Martin | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE year 1847 marked a period of great territorial
acquisition by the American people, with incalculable
additions to their actual and potential wealth.
By the rational compromise with England in the dispute
over the Oregon region, President Polk had secured
during 1846, for undisturbed settlement, three
hundred thousand square miles of forest, fertile land,
and fisheries, including the whole fair Columbia Valley.
Our active "policy of the Pacific'' dated from
that hour. With swift and clinching succession came
the melodramatic Mexican War, and February, 1848,
saw another vast territory south of Oregon and west
of the Rocky Mountains added by treaty to the United
States. Thus in about eighteen months there had
been pieced into the national domain for quick development
and exploitation a region as large as the
entire Union of Thirteen States at the close of the War
of Independence. Moreover, within its boundaries
was embraced all the great American gold-field, just
on the eve of discovery, for Marshall had detected the
shining particles in the mill-race at the foot of the
Sierra Nevada nine days before Mexico signed away
her rights in California and in all the vague, remote
hinterland facing Cathayward. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 298 | 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 |
| 299 | 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 |
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