| | 2 | Author: | Barr, Amelia E. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Remember the Alamo  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In A. D. sixteen hundred and ninety-two, a few Franciscan
monks began to build a city. The site chosen was a lovely
wilderness hundreds of miles away from civilization on every
side, and surrounded by savage and warlike tribes. But the
spot was as beautiful as the garden of God. It was shielded
by picturesque mountains, watered by two rivers, carpeted with
flowers innumerable,
shaded by noble trees joyful with the notes of a multitude of
singing birds. To breathe the balmy atmosphere was to be
conscious of some rarer and finer life, and the beauty of the
sunny skies—marvellous at dawn and eve with tints of saffron
and amethyst and opal—was like a dream of heaven. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 4 | Author: | Brann, William Cowper | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FOR more than six-and-thirty centuries the brand of
the courtesan has rested on the brow of Potiphar's wife.
The religious world persists in regarding her as an
abandoned woman who wickedly strove to lead an
immaculate he-virgin astray. The crime of which she
stands accused is so unspeakably awful that even after
the lapse of ages we cannot refer to the miserable
creature without a moan. Compared with her infamous
conduct old Lot's dalliance with his young daughters and
David's ravishment of Uriah's wife appear but venial
faults, or even shine as spotless virtues. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 5 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Lady of Quality | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ON a wintry morning at the close of 1685, the sun shining
faint and red through a light fog, there was a great noise of
baying dogs, loud voices, and trampling of horses in the
courtyard at Wildairs Hall. Sir Jeoffry, being about to go forth
a-hunting, and being a man with a choleric temper and big loud
voice, and given to oaths and noise even when in good humor, his
riding forth with his friends at any time was attended with
boisterous commotion. This morning it was more so than usual,
for he had guests with him who had come to his house the day
before and had supped late and drunk deeply, whereby the day
found them, some with headaches, some with a nausea at their
stomachs, and some only in an evil humor which made them curse at
their horses when they were restless, and break into loud surly
laughs when a coarse
joke was made. There were many such
jokes, Sir Jeoffry and his boon companions being renowned
throughout the county for the freedom of their conversation as
well as for the scandal of their pastimes, and this day it was
well indeed, as their loud-voiced, oath-besprinkled jests rang
out on the cold air, that there were no ladies about to ride
forth with them. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 9 | Author: | Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The King's Jackal | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The private terrace of the Hotel Grand Bretagne, at Tangier, was
shaded by a great awning of red and green and yellow, and strewn with
colored mats, and plants in pots, and wicker chairs. It reached out
from the Kings apartments into the Garden of Palms, and was hidden by
them on two sides, and showed from the third the blue waters of the
Mediterranean and the great shadow of Gibraltar in the distance. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 10 | Author: | Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Lion and the Unicorn | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PRENTISS had a long lease on the house, and because it stood in
Jermyn Street the upper floors were, as a matter of course,
turned into lodgings for single gentlemen; and because Prentiss
was a Florist to the Queen, he placed a lion and unicorn over his
flower-shop, just in front of the middle window on the first
floor. By stretching a little, each of them could see into the
window just beyond him, and could hear all that was said inside;
and such things as they saw and heard during the reign of Captain
Carrington, who moved in at the same time they did! By day the
table in the centre of the room was covered with maps, and the
Captain sat with a box of pins, with different-colored flags
wrapped around them, and amused himself by sticking them in the
maps and measuring the
spaces in between, swearing meanwhile to
himself. It was a selfish amusement, but it appeared to be the
Captain's only intellectual pursuit, for at night, the maps were
rolled up, and a green cloth was spread across the table, and
there was much company and popping of soda-bottles, and little
heaps of gold and silver were moved this way and that across the
cloth. The smoke drifted out of the open windows, and the
laughter of the Captain's guests rang out loudly in the empty
street, so that the policeman halted and raised his eyes
reprovingly to the lighted windows, and cabmen drew up beneath
them and lay in wait, dozing on their folded arms, for the
Captain's guests to depart. The Lion and the Unicorn were rather
ashamed of the scandal of it, and they were glad when, one day,
the Captain went away with his tin boxes and gun-cases piled high
on a four-wheeler. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Reporter Who Made Himself King | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the
one who works his way up. He holds that the only way to start is as a
printer's devil or as an office boy, to learn in time to set type, to
graduate from a compositor into a stenographer, and as a stenographer
take down speeches at public meetings, and so finally grow into a real
reporter, with a fire badge on your left suspender, and a speaking
acquaintance with all the greatest men in the city, not even excepting
Police Captains. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 13 | Author: | Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Soldiers of Fortune | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | “IT is so good of you to come early,” said Mrs.
Porter, as Alice Langham entered the drawing-room. “I want
to ask a favor of you. I'm sure you won't mind. I would ask one
of the débutantes, except that they're always so cross
if one puts them next to men they don't know and who can't help
them, and so I thought I'd just ask you, you're so good-natured.
You don't mind, do you?” | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 17 | Author: | Ferber, Edna | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Buttered Side Down | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Any one who has ever written for the magazines (nobody could
devise a more sweeping opening; it includes the iceman who does a
humorous article on the subject of his troubles, and the
neglected wife next door, who journalizes) knows that a story the scene of
which is not New York is merely junk. Take Fifth Avenue as a
framework, pad it out to five thousand words, and there you have
the ideal short story. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 18 | Author: | Jewett, Sarah Orne | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | In Dark New England Days | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE last of the neighbors was going home; officious Mrs. Peter
Downs had lingered late and sought for additional housework with
which to prolong her stay. She had talked incessantly, and
buzzed like a busy bee as she helped to put away the best
crockery after the funeral supper, while the sisters Betsey and
Hannah Knowles grew every moment more forbidding and unwilling to
speak. They lighted a solitary small oil lamp at last as if for
Sunday evening idleness, and put it on the side table in the
kitchen. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 19 | Author: | Leroux, Gaston | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Phantom of the Opera | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long
believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the
superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and
impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their
mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the
concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he
assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to
say, of a spectral shade. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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