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Tobias Smollett Travels Through France And Italy (Fiscle Part-11)

Travel
English
145110 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
1

Dear Sir,--You Laid Your Commands Upon Me At Parting, To Communicate From Time To Time The Observations [more]

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Elizabeth Bell The short stories of E.Bell

Short Story
English
42453 Words
Ages 14 and up
382
4

Short stories brought to you by E. Bell. Stories of revenge, cursed coins, and thieving fairies to entertian and [more]

Keywords: fairies, curses, fights revenge, comedy surfing shark cats

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Dr. Jennifer Agard Brain Challenge Puzzles: A Fun Way to Learn Vocabulary – Grade 7 and 8 Part 1

Practice your vocabulary - HOME SCHOOL TOOL

Education
English
8227 Words
Ages 12 and up
172
0

Brain Challenge: A Fun Way to Learn Vocabulary offers a unique, educational approach to teaching vital skills to [more]

Keywords: worksheet, puzzle, grammar, sentence, practice, definition, abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abet, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abnegate, abrogate, abscond, abstruse, accede, accelerate, adroit, advocate, aggrandize, amalgamate, ambiguous, animus, antipathy, apathy, ardor, attain, attenuate, bewilder, baleful, balk, barricade, becalm, becloud, beget, beguile, benefactor, benevolent, benign, berate, betray, biased, blatant, blithe, bombastic, boor, breach, broach, burgeon, burnish, buttress, bursar, bypass, audacious, autocrat, aver, cessation, cajole, calumny, candid, cantankerous, capricious castigate, cataclysmic, censure, cerebral, challenge, chicanery, coalesce, cogent, colloquial, conflagration, congruity, conservatism, conserve, convivial, convoke, copious, corporeal, corroborate, countenance, craven, crude, culpable, belobor, bellicose, dearth, daunt, debacle, debase, decorum, decry, deft, delineate, deluge, demur, deprecate, depreciate, desiccate, detractor, diatribe, diffidence, disabuse, disavow, disparage, disparate, dispassionate, display, dissemble, distant, distend, dogged, dogmatic, doleful, drought, extant, ebullient, edict, efface, efficacy, emollient, emulate, endemic, endure, enervate, engender, enigma, enjoin, ensconce, ephemeral, equivocate, erudite, eschew, esoteric, espouse, eulogy, exacerbate, exculpate, exorbitant, explicit, expunge, expound, fathom, facetious, fallacious, fatuous, fawn, feckless, fecund, feign, felicitous, fervid, fetid, fetter, fictive, fidelity, figurative, flaw, flee, flippant, florid, flourish, foil, forbearance, forum, fracas, fractious, frenetic, furlough, furtive, futile, garrulous, gambol, gamely, gargantuan, garish, gauche, generalize, genial, glacier, glib, glossy, glower, glutton, goad, gourmand, gracious, grandiloquent, gratis, gratuity, gravity, gregarious, grievous, grovel, gruff, guile, guileless, gullible, gustatory, hapless, hackneyed, harangue, harass, harbinger, haughty, hazardous, heckler, hedonist, heed, heinous, hermetic, hesitant, heterogeneous, hiatus, hidebound, hierarchy, hindrance, hindsight, histrionics, hoary, hodgepodge, hoist, hubris, humane, hyperbole, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypothesis, vocabulary, word [more][Less]

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M. Leonora Eyles Captivity

Horror
English
139172 Words
Ages 18 and up
4
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"Man comes into life to seek and find his sufficient beauty, to serve it, to win and increase it, to fight for it; to face anything and dare anything for it, counting death as nothing so long as the dying eyes still turn to it. And fear and dulness and indolence and appetite—which, indeed, are no more than fear's three crippled brothers who make ambushes and creep by night—are against him, to delay him, to hold him off, to hamper and beguile and kill him in that quest." [more]

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Thornton W. Burgess Whitefoot The Wood Mouse

Short Story
English
19235 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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As the days grow colder, little Whitefoot the Wood Mouse decides it is time to find a warm, safe place to spend the winter. The happy little creature finds the perfect spot in Farmer Brown's barn, where he meets a friendly stranger, tumbles into a life-threatening situation, and learns the meaning of the word "trust." A master storyteller, Thornton Burgess instills in his young readers important lessons about animals, nature, and the environment. Rich in the warmth, simplicity, and nostalgic charm of an earlier day, this entertaining tale will beguile today's youngsters as much as it enthralled children generations ago. [more]

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Richard F. Burton Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 (fiscle part- 4)

Science
English
146515 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

Al-Malik Al-Zahir Rukn Al-Din Bibars Al- Bundukdari And The Sixteen Captains Of Police.[Fn#1] There Was Once In the Climes[Fn#2] Of Egypt And The City Of Cairo, Under The Turks, A King Of The Valiant Kings And The Exceeding Mighty Soldans, Hight Al-Malik Al-Zahir Rukn Al-Din Bibars Al-Bundukdari,[Fn#3] Who Was Used to Storm The Islamite Sconces And The Strongholds Of "The Shore"[Fn#4] And The Nazarene Citadels. His Chief Of Police In the Capital Of His Kingdom, Was Just To The Folk, All Of Them; And Al-Malik Al-Zahir Delighted in Stories Of The Common Sort And Of That Which Men Purposed in Thought; And He Loved to See This With His Own Eyes And To Hear Their Sayings With His Own Ears. Now It Fortuned that He Heard One Night From A Certain Of His Nocturnal Reciters[Fn#5] That Among Women Are Those Who Are Doughtier Than The Doughtiest Men And Prower Of Prowess, And That Among Them Are Some Who Will Engage In fight Singular With The Sword And Others Who Beguile The Quickest-Witted of Walis And Baffle Them And Bring Down On Them All Manner Of Miseries; Wherefore Said The Soldan, "I Would Lief Hear This Of Their Legerdemain From One Of Those Who Have Had To Do With It, So I May Hearken Unto Him And Cause Him Discourse. [more]

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M. Leonora Eyles Captivity (Fiscal Part I)

Language & Literature
English
138647 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

To E. J. R-S. You Have Often Said That You Could Never Write A Book. You Have Written This One Just As Surely As Beatrice Wrote The Vita Nuova For Dante. Until I Talked With You I Did Not Know That Our Lives Are The Pathway For God'S Feet; I Had Not Realized That Trinity Of Body, Brain And Spirit; And It Had Never Come To Me Before How, For Each Other'S Sake, We Must Set A Censor, Very Strong And Austere, Upon Our Secret Thoughts. I Have Learnt These Things From You; The Gold Of Your Thoughts Has Passed Through The Crucible Of My Experience To Make A Book. Perhaps A Little Of The Gold Has Been Left Clinging To The Crucible--And For That I Have To Thank You, My Dear. Margaret Leonora Eyles. Bexhill-On-Sea, _1St February, 1920._ "Man Comes Into Life To Seek And Find His Sufficient Beauty, To Serve It, To Win And Increase It, To Fight For It; To Face Anything And Dare Anything For It, Counting Death As Nothing So Long As The Dying Eyes Still Turn To It. And Fear And Dulness And Indolence And Appetite--Which, Indeed, Are No More Than Fear'S Three Crippled Brothers Who Make Ambushes And Creep By Night--Are Against Him, To Delay Him, To Hold Him Off, To Hamper And Beguile And Kill Him In That Quest." H. G. Wells ("The History Of Mr. Polly"). [more]

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Petronius Arbiter The Satyricon

Fiction
English
61600 Words
Ages 12 and up
268
2

The Satyricon is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius. As with the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, classical scholars often describe it as a "Roman novel", without necessarily implying continuity with the modern literary form. The surviving portions of the text detail the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, and his lover, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy named Giton. Throughout the novel, Encolpius has a hard time keeping his lover faithful to him as he is constantly being enticed away by others. Encolpius's friend Ascyltus (who seems to have previously been in a relationship with Encolpius) is another major character. Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this scintillating miscellany known as the Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to that Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance and dictator of fashion. The flashing, wit, the masterly touches which bring out the characters with all the detail of a fine old copper etching; the marvelous use of realism by this, its first prophet; the sure knowledge of the perspective and background best adapted to each episode; the racy style, so smooth, so elegant, so simple when the educated are speaking, beguile the reader and blind him, at first, to the many discrepancies and incoherences with which the text, as we have it, is marred. The more one concentrates upon this author, the more apparent these faults become and the more one regrets the lacunae in the text. Notwithstanding numerous articles which deal with this work, some from the pens of the most profound scholars, its author is still shrouded in the mists of uncertainty and conjecture. He is as impersonal as Shakespeare, as aloof as Flaubert, in the opinion of Charles Whibley, and, it may be added, as genial as Rabelais; an enigmatic genius whose secret will never be laid bare with the resources at our present command. [more]

Keywords: the satyricon, petronius, classical literature, historical, roman novel, ancient rome, the roman empire, history

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