| | 583 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Shuttle  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | NO man knew when the Shuttle began its slow and
heavy weaving from shore to shore, that it was held
and guided by the great hand of Fate. Fate alone
saw the meaning of the web it wove, the might of it, and
its place in the making of a world's history. Men thought
but little of either web or weaving, calling them by other
names and lighter ones, for the time unconscious of the strength
of the thread thrown across thousands of miles of leaping,
heaving, grey or blue ocean. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 584 | Author: | Calamity Jane (pseud. Marthy Cannary Burk) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | My maiden name was Marthy Cannary. I was born in
Princeton, Missourri, May 1st, 1852. Father and mother were
natives of Ohio. I had two brothers and three sisters, I being the
oldest of the children. As a child I always had a fondness for
adventure and out-door exercise and especial fondness for
horses which I began to ride at an early age and continued to do
so until I became an expert rider being able to ride the most
vicious and stubborn of horses, in fact the greater portion of my
life in early times was spent in this manner. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 586 | Author: | Casson, Herbert N. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The History of the Telephone | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN that somewhat distant year 1875, when the
telegraph and the Atlantic cable were the
most wonderful things in the world, a tall young
professor of elocution was desperately busy in a
noisy machine-shop that stood in one of the narrow
streets of Boston, not far from Scollay
Square. It was a very hot afternoon in June,
but the young professor had forgotten the heat
and the grime of the workshop. He was wholly
absorbed in the making of a nondescript machine,
a sort of crude harmonica with a clock-spring
reed, a magnet, and a wire. It was a most
absurd toy in appearance. It was unlike any
other thing that had ever been made in any country.
The young professor had been toiling over
it for three years and it had constantly baffled
him, until, on this hot afternoon in June, 1875,
he heard an almost inaudible sound — a faint
twang — come from the
machine itself. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 588 | Author: | Cather, Willa Sibert | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ardessa | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE grand-mannered old man who sat at a desk in the
reception-room of "The Outcry" offices to receive visitors and
incidentally to keep the time-book of the employees, looked up as
Miss Devine entered at ten minutes past ten and condescendingly
wished him good morning. He bowed profoundly as she minced
past his desk, and with an indifferent air took her course down the
corridor that led to the editorial offices. Mechanically he opened
the flat, black book at his elbow and placed his finger on D, running
his eye along the line of figures after the name Devine. "It's
banker's hours she keeps, indeed," he muttered. What was the use
of entering so capricious a record? Nevertheless, with his usual
preliminary flourish he wrote 10:10 under this, the fourth day of
May. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 590 | Author: | Christie, Agatha | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE intense interest aroused in the public by what was
known at the time as "The Styles Case'' has now somewhat
subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety
which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend
Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the
whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the
sensational rumours which still persist. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 591 | Author: | Cooke, Josiah Parsons | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Religion and Chemistry | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE time has been when the Christian Church
was an active antagonist of physical science; when
the whole hierarchy of Rome united to condemn its
results and to resist its progress; when the immediate
reward of great discoveries was obloquy and
persecution. But all this has passed. The age of
dogmatism has gone, and an age of general scepticism
has succeeded. The power of traditional authority
has given place to the power of ideas, and
physical science, which before hardly dared to assert
its birthright, and could even be forced to recant, on
its knees, its demonstrated truths, has now become
one of the rulers of society. By its rapid growth,
by its conquests over brute matter, and by its
wonderful revelations, it has deservedly gained the
highest respect of man, while by multiplying and
diffusing the comforts of life it has become his
acknowledged friend. Every effort is now made to
further its progress. Its great discoveries win the
applause of nations, and its fortunate students are
remembered when the princes and nobles of the
earth are forgotten. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 596 | Author: | Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Manacled | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the First Act there had been a farm scene, wherein real horses
had drunk real water out of real buckets, afterward dragging a real
waggon off stage, L. The audience was consumed with admiration
of this play, and the great Theatre Nouveau rang to its roof with the
crowd's plaudits. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 598 | Author: | Dana, Marvin | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Within the Law | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The lids of the girl's eyes lifted slowly, and she
stared at the panel of light in the wall. Just at the
outset, the act of seeing made not the least impression
on her numbed brain. For a long time she continued
to regard the dim illumination in the wall with the same
passive fixity of gaze. Apathy still lay upon her crushed
spirit. In a vague way, she realized her own inertness,
and rested in it gratefully, subtly fearful lest she again
arouse to the full horror of her plight. In a curious
subconscious fashion, she was striving to hold on to this
deadness of sensation, thus to win a little respite from
the torture that had exhausted her soul. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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