| | 42 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Add | | | 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 |
| 43 | Author: | Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 | Add | | | 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 |
| 46 | Author: | Ferber, Edna | Add | | | Title: | Fanny Herself | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | You could not have lived a week in Winnebago without
being aware of Mrs. Brandeis. In a town of ten thousand,
where every one was a personality, from Hen Cody, the
drayman, in blue overalls (magically transformed on Sunday
mornings into a suave black-broadcloth usher at the
Congregational Church), to A. J. Dawes, who owned the
waterworks before the city bought it. Mrs. Brandeis was a
super-personality. Winnebago did not know it. Winnebago,
buying its dolls, and china, and Battenberg braid and
tinware and toys of Mrs. Brandeis, of Brandeis' Bazaar,
realized vaguely that here was some one different. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 47 | Author: | Field, Eugene | Add | | | Title: | The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AT this moment, when I am about to
begin the most important undertaking
of my life, I recall the sense of abhorrence
with which I have at different times
read the confessions of men famed for
their prowess in the realm of love. These
boastings have always shocked me, for I
reverence love as the noblest of the
passions, and it is impossible for me to conceive
how one who has truly fallen victim to its
benign influence can ever thereafter speak
flippantly of it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 50 | Author: | Fox, John | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 52 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Add | | | Title: | A Guest in Sodom | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | YES that was Benjamin Rice. He has been that way ever since the
affair of the automobile. His mind was run over and killed by that
machine, if minds can be run over and killed, and sometimes I think
they can. I have known Benjamin Rice ever since we were boys
together, and he was smart enough, but he never quite got through
his head the wickedness of the world he had been born into. He
thought everybody else was as good and honest as he was, and when
he found out he was mistaken, it was too much for him. His wife
feels just as I do about it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 53 | Author: | Furman, Lucy S. | Add | | | Title: | Hard-Hearted Barbary Allen. A Kentucky Mountain Sketch. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ONE Friday morning when Miss Loring was setting forth to take the
corn to mill, the heads of the settlement school asked her to
extend her trip, make a day of it, and bring back some coverlets
and homespun from Aunt Polly Ann Wyant's, over on the head of Wace.
"Just follow Right Fork of Perilous until you come to Devon
Mountain, then cross over, and follow Wace for two or three miles,"
were the directions. How she was to know Devon from any other
mountain or Wace from any other creek was not explained. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 55 | Author: | Grinnell, George Bird | Add | | | Title: | Little Friend Coyote | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was in the summer when the Blackfoot and Piegan tribes were
camped together that the Blackfoot, Front Wolf, first noticed
Su-ye-sai-pi, a Piegan girl, and liked her, and determined to make her
his wife. She was young and handsome and of good family, and her
parents were well-to-do, for her father was a leading warrior of
his tribe. Front Wolf was himself a noted warrior, and had grown
rich from his forays on the camps of the enemy, so when he asked
for the young woman her parents were pleased—pleased to give their
daughter to such a strong young man, and pleased to accept the
thirty horses he sent them with the request. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 58 | Author: | Hamilton, Alexander; John Jay; and James Madison | Add | | | Title: | The Federalist Papers | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | To the People of the State of New York:
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the
subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on
a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject
speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences
nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare
of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many
respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently
remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this
country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important
question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of
establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether
they are forever destined to depend for their political
constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the
remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be
regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a
wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve
to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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