Excerpt: "e;In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric.
Excerpt: "e;The writer of this little volume deems it only fair to forewarn his readers that he is not, and never has been, an inhabitant of that variegated region in creation commonly called "e;the sporting world.
Excerpt: "e;The writer of this trifling Volume was suddenly sentenced, in the cold evening of his life, to drink the mineral waters of one of the bubbling springs, or brunnens, of Nassau.
1889 Civil War Story of Battle and Prison, of Peril and Escape - The incidents of the book are real ones, drawn in part from the writer's personal experiences and observations as a soldier of the Union during that war.
Excerpt: "e;As the tubby little China Coast steamer marched up Manila Bay, Trask stood under the bridge on the skimpy "e;promenade deck"e; and waited impatiently for the doctor's boat to come alongside.
Excerpt: "e;Most collections of short stories that have been prepared, for school use, up to the present, are more or less alike in in drawing much of their material from the past.
Child Whispers (published in 1922) is the first published work of the English children's author Enid Blyton, illustrated by her childhood friend and collaborator Phyllis Chase.
Excerpt: "e;On the first outbreak of hostilities with the mother country Jones offered his services to the Continental Congress, and his name headed the list of thirteen first lieutenants in the navy appointed in December 1775.
Excerpt: "e;Colonel John Hope Fortescue, commanding the fine new cavalry post of Fort Blizzard, in the far Northwest, sat in his comfortable office and gazed through the big window at the plaza with its tall flagstaff, from which the splendid regimental flag floated in the crystal cold air of December.
Excerpt: "e;Yes, it was surely the embodiment of feminine beauty-the dark, narrow-lidded eyes, wide apart-did you ever notice the terrible intelligence in the eyes of a portrait?
Excerpt: "e;American history presents no more picturesque figure than Paul Jones, and the mere recital of his life and its incidents is a thrilling romance.
Excerpt: "e;A troubled history has all along been that of the great tongue of land which, occupying the same position in Asia as Italy in Europe, is equal to half our continent, with a population growing towards three hundred millions.
Excerpt: "e;Of these Fairy Tales told to children in the Australian bush, "e;The Magic Gun"e; and "e;The Underground River,"e; are original, but the others have been brought from the old country, not in book form, but in the memory of a lover of fairies and children.
Excerpt: "e;"e;Scritch-scratch, scritch-scratch,"e; went a noise in the woods not very far away from the pond where Doctor Muskrat was telling a story to Nibble Rabbit and Stripes Skunk.
Excerpt: "e;You'd have thought every wing and paw in the Woods and Fields (except the Bad Little Owls, of course) would have been glad to know that Silvertip the Fox was caught.
Illustrierte Fassung für Kinder und Jugendliche»Tausendundeine Nacht« ist die berühmteste Sammlung morgenländischer Erzählungen und zugleich ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur.
Illustrierte Fassung für Kinder und Jugendliche»Tausendundeine Nacht« ist die berühmteste Sammlung morgenländischer Erzählungen und zugleich ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur.
