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A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting

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Eugene Edward Hall


This instruction manual contains complete directions for making and fitting new staffs for watches from raw material. The author refers to s…

Missing: Page Thirteen

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Anna Katharine Green


Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The future…

The Mystery of a Turkish Bath

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Rita


A group of guests, at an exclusive luxury hotel in Hampshire, are the witnesses of an illustration of occult powers, demonstrated by “the My…

Revolted Woman

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Charles George Harper


One man's opinion of woman in 1894. Charles Harper believes in the superiority of the male sex and the subordination of the female. He pai…

Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

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William Godwin


The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, …

Chapter XX. Some Curiosities

In Nature's Miracles Volume 3: Electricity and Magnetism

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Elisha Gray


Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Compan…

Quatrains 102 - 200

In The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám (Persian original and Whinfield translation)

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Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Whinfield and Omar Khayyám


Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rub&aa…

Grandma's Prayer - Read by BJS

In Grandma's Prayer

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Eugene Field


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Grandma's Prayer by Eugene Field . This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 4, 2011.E…

Girl and the Julep, The

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08

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Emerson Hough


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 author…

Little Susy's Six Birthdays, Part 1

In LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection

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Elizabeth Prentiss


What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…

The University Ideal - Past and Present

In Insomnia Collection Vol. 002

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Alexander Bain


Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

09 - The Red-Haired Girl

In The Book of Ghosts

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Sabine Baring-Gould


Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he publis…

Cupid, A Crook

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 07

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Edward W. Townsend (1885 - 1942) and Edward W. Townsend


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the seventh volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 autho…

The Pleasures of Reading

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 03

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Charles Dudley Warner, ed. and Arthur James Balfour


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

CHAPTER XIII December

In Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amate…

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Gertrude Jekyll


Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with renowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and pl…

Folly 5: The Transmutation of Metals--Alchemy

In The Seven Follies of Science

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John Phin


The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve…

05- Lesson 5

In The Elements of Entomology

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William Ruschenberger


The Elements of Entomology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is…

Book Eighth - Retrospect—Love of Nature Leading to Love of Man

In The Prelude

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William Wordsworth


Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth pu…