| | 464 | Author: | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Driven From Home  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A BOY of sixteen, with a small gripsack in
his hand, trudged along the country road. He
was of good height for his age, strongly built,
and had a frank, attractive face. He was
naturally of a cheerful temperament, but at present
his face was grave, and not without a shade
of anxiety. This can hardly be a matter of
surprise when we consider that he was thrown
upon his own resources, and that his available
capital consisted of thirty-seven cents in
money, in addition to a good education and
a rather unusual amount of physical strength.
These last two items were certainly valuable,
but they cannot always be exchanged for the
necessaries and comforts of life. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 472 | Author: | Allen, Raymund | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Happy Solution | | | | Published: | 1993 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The portmanteau, which to Kenneth Dale's strong arm had been little
more than a feather-weight on leaving the station, seemed to have
grown heavier by magic in the course of the half-mile that brought him
to Lord Churt's country house. He put the portmanteau down in the
porch with a sense of relief to his cramped arm, and rang the bell. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 474 | Author: | Andreyev, Leonid | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Lazarus | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN Lazarus left the grave, where, for three days and
three nights he had been under the enigmatical sway
of death, and returned alive to his dwelling, for a long time no
one noticed in him those sinister oddities, which, as time went
on, made his very name a terror. Gladdened unspeakably by the
sight of him who had been returned to life, those near to him
carressed him unceasingly, and satiated their burning desire
to serve him, in solicitude for his food and drink and garments.
And they dressed him gorgeously, in bright colors of hope and
laughter, and when, like to a bridegroom in his bridal vestures,
he sat again among them at the table, and again ate and drank,
they wept, overwhelmed with tenderness. And they summoned
the neighbors to look at him who had risen miraculously from
the dead. These came and shared the serene joy of the hosts.
Strangers from far-off towns and hamlets came and adored the
miracle in tempestuous words. Like to a beehive was the house
of Mary and Martha. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 477 | Author: | Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Triumph of the Egg | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MY father was, I am sure, intended by nature to be a cheerful,
kindly man. Until he was thirty-four years old he worked as a
farm-hand for a man named Thomas Butterworth whose place lay near the
town of Bidwell, Ohio. He had then a horse of his own and on Saturday
evenings drove into town to spend a few hours in social intercourse
with other farm-hands. In town he drank several glasses of beer and
stood about in Ben Head's saloon—crowded on Saturday evenings with
visiting farm-hands. Songs were sung and glasses thumped on the bar.
At ten o'clock father drove home along a lonely country road, made his
horse comfortable for the night and himself went to bed, quite happy in
his position in life. He had at that time no notion of trying to rise
in the world. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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