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by Mark Twain
Well, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaw...
by Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
by Agatha Christie
"Take all this business about Kenya," said Major Palgrave.
by Agatha Christie
It was close on midnight when a man crossed the Place de la Concorde.
by Agatha Christie
That amiable youth, Jimmy Thesiger, came racing down the big staircase at Chimneys two steps at a time.
by Charles Bryce
When Sir Arthur Byrne fell ill, after three summers at his post in the little consulate that overlooked the lonely water...
by Agatha Christie
It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon a...
by Edith Nesbit
There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a...
by Agatha Christie
MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.
by Agatha Christie
"Linnet Ridgeway!" "That's her!" said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.
by Agatha Christie
I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war.
by Agatha Christie
I was standing at the window of Poirot's rooms looking out idly on the street below.
by Agatha Christie
Major Burnaby drew on his gum boots, buttoned his overcoat collar round his neck, took from a shelf near the door a hurr...
by Wilkie Collins
In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point.
by Arthur Conan Doyle
I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892.
by Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room.