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Victor Hugo
… for he was the son of a simple Joseph Hugo—became a soldier at the age of fourteen, on the eve of the epoch-making … Seventeen months after the birth of the second, on the 26th of February, 1802, at Besancon, was born the third … of rhythm and cadence; for notwithstanding that at certain points he broke through his rules of classic verse, he …
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Mr. Crockett
… and while everybody cut gym and skipped social studies and foreign language from time to time, no one missed … Not that he took attendance, or would even comment on a person’s absence. Mr. Crockett’s method was far … discussion as if we were mature enough to handle it. He also believed that there was a difference between what we …
A Tour of the Islands
… weight easily. In the ten years since his wife Winifred had died he had lost the battle. He was not obese, but his … his voice added to the impression that he slept poorly. His companion was large-boned and taller, and despite the fact … the town of Paros. Brightly white-washed exterior, inside also white with blue-tiled floor. I remember wondering if we …
Saipan the Shoeshine Man
… It was almost time, a little after nine. The last of the commuters were still coming home from their jobs in Tokyo. A … them: two pant legs walking briskly among the others, a briefcase swinging alongside. The old man was close enough to … to take the island and had done much killing. So many had died, so many. The blood of his friends and comrades had …
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Old Wine in New (Medicine) Bottles?
… relatively uncensored Jefferson that exists in the least-studied writings of his retirement years, 1809–1826” (3). Regrettably, historians and editors have, for the … period have ever been published, and the figure for his incoming correspondence is lower still. The “secrets” that …
The Vanderbilt Literary Movement
… to this statement, probably not to be disputed, is that a complete bibliography woidd have been a useful addition to … the nation at the moment. (Momentarily, many people had become Agrarians, at least individually, in order to eat.) … Belloc and G. K. Chesterton, who were Distributists, were also good Agrarians, and the upshot of this slightly odd …
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