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Cover of English-Esperanto Dictionary
by J.C. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018

 el - Ellerni, learn thoroughly. mal - Mallerni, unlearn. re - Relerni, learn again. ant - Lernanto, a pupil, a learner (mas.). Lernantino a pupil, a learner (fem.). an - Lernejano, a schoolboy. Lernejanino, a schoolgirl. ge - Gelernantoj, pupils (mas. and fem.). ist - Lernejisto, a school teacher.
Cover of A Brief History of the United States
by John Bach McMaster
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018

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Cover of Flash-lights from the Seven Seas
by William L. Stidger
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

     And this author, for one, is honest in saying that, in spite of careful investigation, in spite of extensive travel and a sympathetic heart, he sees but dimly. The very glory of it all, the age of it all, the wonder of it all, the mysterious beauty and thrill of it all; the thrill of these...
Cover of Graustark
by George Barr McCutcheon
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018

one took a seat behind him. He did not look back, but unconcernedly cast his eyes upon the broad mirror in the opposite car wall. Instantly he forgot his paper. She was sitting within five feet of him, a book in her lap, her gaze bent briefly on the flitting buildings outside. He studied the reflection furtively until she took up the book and began to read. Up to this time he had wondered why some nonsensical idiot had wasted looking-glasses on the walls of a railway coach; now he was thinking of him as a far-sighted man.  ...
Cover of For the Cause
by Stanley J. Weyman
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

     The stranger whistled. "He was your father, was he!" he replied more gently. "I dare swear too that he was an honest man, since the Sixteen have done this. There, steady, friend. These are no times for weeping. Be thankful that Le Clerc and his crew have spared your home, and...
Cover of Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar
by George Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018

     The new Town Hall stands on the site of the house.     The boy bore a family name which is common in Southwest England, and which was doubtless derived, in the first instance, from the great missionary monk of Celtic France, the founder of the Gallic Church, St. Martin, Bishop of Tours. Born in what is now Lower Hungary, the son of a pagan soldier of Rome, St.
Cover of The Duke in the Suburbs
by Edgar Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017

Willie, who read:   "THE Due DE MONTVILLIER," and in a corner. "San Pio Ranch, Tex."   "I'm not," continued the young man modestly. "I'm not an English duke: if anything I'm rather superior to the average English duke: I've got royal blood in my veins, and I shall be very pleased to see you at No. 64."  ...
Cover of Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death
by F. W. H. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018

     What I have tried to do here is to render that knowledge more assimilable by co-ordinating it in a form as clear and intelligible as my own limited skill and the nature of the facts themselves have permitted. I have tried to give, in text and in Appendices, enough of actual evidence to illustrate...
Cover of Heroes Every Child Should Know
by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018

     Courage and achievement are the two signs of the hero; he may possess or lack many other qualities, but he must be daring and he must do things and not dream or talk about them.
Cover of The Great Shadow
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017

thrusting out.   "It 's all a lie!" shouted the doctor as he passed. "There has been no landing, and all the fools in Scotland have been gadding about the roads for nothing."   His son Jim snarled something up at him on this, and his father struck him a blow with his clenched fist on the side 
Cover of Travels through France and Italy
by Tobias Smollett
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017

Horace Walpole and the coterie of superficial dilettanti, from which Smollett's book has somehow never wholly recovered, could then easily be outflanked and the Travels might well be in reasonable expectation of coming by their own again.    
Cover of Great Possessions
by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

          IX.  A Little More than Kind           X.  The Pet Vice          XI.  The Thin End of a Clue         XII.  Molly's Night-Watch        XIII.
Cover of Life of Father Hecker
by Walter Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017

     He was enthusiastic in his work, as all are who put their whole soul into what they are doing. Such people have no time to count the dark linings of the silvery clouds; they realize that God and man together do not fail. Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. It fits a man to be a leader; it secures a following.
Cover of My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands
by George Francis Train
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018

     "Four times around the world. First, two years. Second, eighty days, '70. Third, sixty-seven and a half days, '90. Fourth, sixty days, shortest record, '92. Through psychic telepathy, am doubling age. Seventy-four years young."     It may be a matter of surprise to some readers...
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