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Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

HEAVE the anchor short!

1855 755 ed.
Roughing It
Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

1872 408 ed.
Eldest
Eldest

by Christopher Paolini

1998 73 ed.
Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage

by Zane Grey

A SHARP clip-clop of iron-shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwood...

1912 708 ed.
Poems
Poems

by Oscar Wilde

To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play,

1881 53 ed.
South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition
South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition

by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

I HAD DECIDED to leave South Georgia about December 5, and in the intervals of final preparation scanned again the plans...

1919 116 ed.
Absolute Power
Absolute Power

by David Baldacci

HE GRIPPED the steering wheel loosely as the car, its lights out, drifted slowly to a stop.

1995 52 ed.
The Lathe of Heaven
The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss.

1971 40 ed.
Language
Language

by Edward Sapir

Speech is so familiar a feature of daily life that we rarely pause to define it.

1921 94 ed.
West wind drift
West wind drift

by George Barr McCutcheon

1920 55 ed.
The botany of desire
The botany of desire

by Michael Pollan, Michael Pollan

If you happened to find yourself on the banks of the Ohio River on a particular afternoon in the spring of 1806-somewher...

2001 19 ed.
Post Captain
Post Captain

by Patrick O'Brian

At first dawn the swathes of rain drifting eastwards across the Channel parted long enough to show that the chase had al...

1972 28 ed.