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by Ambrose Bierce
ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-lo...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...
by Louisa May Alcott
CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
by Upton Sinclair
IT WAS FOUR O'CLOCK when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.
by Sir Walter Scott
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is a little remarkable, that-though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my ...