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Dane Thorson, Cargo-master-apprentice of the Solar Queen, Galactic Free Trader spacer, Terra regi...

I am afraid I don't understand you, Mr. Lyne.Odette Rider looked gravely at the young man who lol...

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A young officer in dingy Confederate gray rode slowly on a powerful bay horse through a forest of...

Vicksburg had fallen, and the army had marched in and taken possession of the city. How Frank lon...

Perhaps we were pretty big boys - Jack and I. In fact, I'm afraid we were so big that we haven't ...

It was near sunset, and the season was early summer. Every tree was in full leaf, but the foliage...

Victoria Van Allen was the name she signed to her letters and to her cheques, but Vicky Van, as h...

It was a bright morning in the month of August, when a lad of some fifteen years of age, sitting ...

I have never dared even inquire why our best man began calling my husband the Angel. He was with ...

On a certain morning, just a week before Christmas, the little world of school at Chilcombe Hall ...

Lieutenant Sutch was the first of General Feversham's guests to reach Broad Place. He arrived abo...

Uncle Ethan had a theory that a man's character could be told by the way he sat in a wagon seat.'...

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The long street rising and falling and rising again until its farthest crest high in the east see...

The site is wild and rugged. It is a lofty eminence covered with huge boulders of sandstone, betw...

Oh, Little Billee! Come quick, for goodness' sake! The baby's choking! Patty was in the sun parlo...

Frequently I have to ask myself in the street for the name of the man I bowed to just now, and th...

I wouldn't advise you young ladies to take the boat out. Miss Elting instantly recalled the messa...

FYODOR LUKITCH SYSOEV, the master of the factory school maintained at the expense of the firm of ...

Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wond...

This is the story of me, Ana the scribe, son of Meri, and of certain of the days that I have spen...

I want to state right at the start that I am writing this story twenty years after it happened so...

They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railway...

The ship stole through the darkness with extremest caution, feeling her way past bay and promonto...

John is not John until he is married. He assumes the sobriquet at the altar as truly as his bride...

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Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may so...

My friend B. called on me this morning and asked me if I would go to a theatre with him on Monday...

Sure, I was carryin' the banner. But say, I ain't one of them kids that gets callouses on the han...

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Mr. Roscoe rang the bell, and, in answer, a servant entered the library, where he sat before a la...

The Town Hall in Rossville stands on a moderate elevation overlooking the principal street. It is...

It is one of Johnny Chipman's parties at the Harlequin Club, and as usual the people the other pe...

Jill looked at the East!At her feet sat huddled groups of women, just bundles of black robes, som...

I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discer...