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The Sword of Damocles

In Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life

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H. Rider Haggard

This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adult…

16 - History of Jack the Giant-Killer

In The Fairy Ring

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Kate D. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…

Section 2

In Write it Right

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Ambrose Bierce

Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…

01 - The Boy 1727-1741

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 11 - The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe

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William Wood

Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a…

Chapter 2

In A Little Servant

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Grace Livingston Hill

A short story of a little girl who is Jesus' servant and how she won the heart of an unbelieving gardener. Summary by Esther

26 - Lazarus Raised to Life

In Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 6

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Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Some years ago, the editor of an English magazine sent a communication to "the hundred greatest men in Great Britain" asking them …

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