Grant Robert
Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855-1943) was the first United States ambassador to Argentina, a post he held during World War I. He was a Harvard Law graduate and writer of several influential books on law, and also a novelist specialising in historical romances, sometimes writing under the pen name J.S. of Dale.
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the little tin gods on wheels or society in our modern athens a trilogy afte
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the little tin gods on wheels or society in our modern athens a trilogy afte
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the lambs a tragedy
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The Lambs - A Tragedy - By Robert Grant
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the high priestess
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office.
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the expediency maintained of continuing the system by which the trade and govern
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the confessions of a frivolous girl a story of fashioable life
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the chippendales
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This is a wonderful novel which belongs to the pen of Robert Grant and which was written at the beginning of the 20th century. The plot of the novel is truly interesting and fascinating. It tells us about Hugh Blaisdale who falls in love with Priscilla Avery. However, the woman does not have any special feelings to him and does not want to marry him. Hugh Blaisdale marries another woman but then his wife dies and the man starts thinking about Priscilla again. But she is married with a nice and honest man Henry Sumner. So what will happen next? The book is highly recommended for those readers who want to have a couple of hours of nice and relaxing reading.
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the bachelors christmas and other stories
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Originally published in 1895. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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the bachelors christmas and the matrimonial tontine benefit association
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m At half past six on the evening of Christmas day Tom Wiggin stood in the large green dining-room of the Blackstone Club, surveying a magnificently appointed table. Roses, pansies, and violets from the greenhouse which he had bought out at ten o'clock that morning, lay tastefully banked and scattered upon the cloth, intertwined with masses of evergreen and holly gay with berries. Christmas wreaths and festoons were lavishly arranged around the walls. Dunklee had assured him that there should be no dearth of palatable viands, and, most important fact of all, there had been twenty acceptances for dinner, happily just ten men and ten women, and nearly a dozen more acceptances for the dance. He had been in a mad whirl since daybreak, but he believed now that he had accomplished everything except to arrange the seats at table, which needed a little quiet reflection. The answers had begun to arrive shortly after breakfast. The first had been a refusal, a little curt and stiff in tone, as though thelady in question, notwithstanding the fact that she had promised to dine with one of her family, wished to give him to understand that she took herself too seriously to accept such an invitation under any circumstances. Tom's heart sank within him, and he said to himself that he had made a mess of it. Five minutes later his features were as complacent as those of a Cheshire cat. The Misses Bellknap were coming, all three of them. They had ordered dinner at home, but were coming notwithstanding, to help Mr. Wiggin pass a merry Christmas and confound the things-in-law. " They are three noble sports," Tom had said to himself, as he danced around his apartment waving the mildly scented note. Other answers came thick and fast. Of course many had engagements, but most of these expressed...
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the art of living
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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jack in the bush or a summer on a salmon river
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Small octavo. Green cloth. 374 pages.
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jack hall or the school days of an american boy
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JACK HALL; THE SCHOOL DAYS OF AN AMERICAN BOY - 1888 - CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE How JACK SPENT THE FOREPIOO OF N IV-UHIIGTONS CRAPTER 11. THES NOW-BALFLI GHT . . . . 29 CHAPTER IV. JACK GOES TO UTOPIA . . . . . . . . 96 CHAPTER V. DR. IEREDITH . . . l 2 0 CHAPTER VI. FIRSTI nrp ss oxs . . . l 6 2 CHAPTER VII. HAZELTINE B MKES HIS D B JT - . . . . 102 CHaPTER VIII. SETTLLV D G OW N . . . . . . . . . 23 0 CONTENTS. CHAPTER X. CHAFTER XI. HAZELTINE MhlLES HIS CHOICE . . 377 JACK HALL. CHAPTER I. HOW JACK SPEST THE FORESOON OF WASHING TONS BIRTHDAY. IT was a bright February morning. The sun was warm, so that the piles of silom in the streets mere in a perfect condi tioii for snow-balling, much to the satisfaction of a medium-sized boy of thirteen who had just come out of the house and was standing o, n his doorsteps, drawing on his mittens. His name was Jack Hall, and he more a Scotch cap, a reefer, and a pair of rubber boots. As soon as his mittens were on he cleared the last two steps with a jump, and, plunging his hands into the nearest snow-bank, stood patting a ball into shape while he looked around. The street on which Jacks house stood was a long and tolerably steep slope. There were houses on both sides. He lived at the top, near the corner of an intersecting street, which ran at right angles to it down to Boston Common. Opposite to his house was a grocery shop. Suddenly Jack looked animated as he caught sight of another figure, not unlike his own on the way up the hill, and by way of welcome to the newcomer, who was still far off, he emitted a sort of shrill war-whoop, Ehu - ehu - ehu Immediately there came a faint reply from the distance, Ehu - ehu - elm After each had twice repeated this salutation, Jack continued contentedly to make snow-balls. He had finished two, tucking one under either arm, and was moulding a third, when R man appeared on the further sidemalk of the intersecting street. Give nle a shot, mister shouted Jaclr. The man, who was going towards the Common, looked back over his shoulder and grinned, which Jack recognized as a sign that he might blaze away, which he did accordingly. The first snow-ball went a little wide of the mark, and struck the wall beyond with a thud but the next liit the man plump in the middle of his exposed arm, and evidently convinced him that discretion rvits tlie better part of valor, for he gathered liis coat collar about his neck, aild fled with precipitation until the corner s l hlimt out from view, pursued by Jacks remaining snow-ball and derisive scoffing. This put Jacl ii l ighl unB uotr b. eforehe had fully re-supplied himself with ammunition, the area door in the wing of the grocery sl opo peued, and the grocers clerk, a young man of about eighte - e il, appeared, carrying some baskets and bundles, with whicll 11e proceeded to load a wheelbarrow belonging to the est, ablishment, that stood beside the big window, paging 110 attention to Jack, though he perceived him very well. For there was perpetual war bettveen the boys in the neighborliood and nilustacl io, which was the ilaine applied by them to the grocers assistant on account of n feebly sprouti dgo t non his upper lip. Jack had equipped 11in1seIE amply with snow-balls by the time that the clerk, with his barrow-full of eggs and flour and other groceries to be delivered in tile neighborhood, was ready to. start domii the street, and stood leai ing against a tree watch ing the enemy. Before Mushchio had proceeded 4 JACK HALL. twenty feet, Jack let drive, not at him, but at the ... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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history of physical astronomy from the earliest ages to the middle of the ninete
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face to face
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. ALL is not gold that glitters. In spite of most deceptive appearances, which fully justified Miss Pimlico in taking the young man on whom she had tried her 'prentice hand to be a fellow-countryman of her own, the fact remains that Ernest Clay had been born and bred in New York City. Indeed, his ancestry was most distinctly American. On his paternal side, he could claim kinship with a Clay who lived in Puritan times, and from whom he was descended in a direct line through a farmer, a schoolmaster, two clergymen, a country doctor, and a banker. The last named was his grandfather, who left the family homestead in Worcester County, Massachusetts, with the hope of making his fortune in the great money mart of the nation. This he succeeded in doing before middle life, and after various experiences he founded the banking house which bore his name for many years after his death, in 1850, and was a synonym for commercial honor and sagacity. He left one son, who had married before the old man's decease Grace, the youngest daughter of Peter Hackensack, the great-grandson of the famous patroon of the same name, Though putatively an alliance between blood and money, te banker's heir was dead in love with his Knickerbocker bride, who reciprocated his passion with all her heart. He succeeded to his father's positions as head of the firm, director in numerous corporations, and favorite trustee of charitable institutions ; and being by temperament a restless, enterprising fellow as well, his thousands soon became a cool million. His wife, a beautiful, spirited woman, who had been a belle before her marriage, became a society leader after the maternal interests, which the birth of Ernest inspired, became a trifle monotonous, and for many seasons it was the fashion for men out of conce... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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an average man
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. 1"T was usual with Remington and Stoughton to -- remain down-town until late in the afternoon, returning just in time to get ready for dinner. They were apt to walk the distance, so as to obtain a little fresh air and exercise. Sometimes they took the " Elevated," and tried to make a few calls at the afternoon tea-hour. The gay season had begun, and invitations to all sorts of entertainments were pouring in upon them. Their social position gave them the entree to the most agreeable houses in town. One afternoon, shortly after the episode at Del- monico's, Stoughton carried his friend to call on Mrs. Fielding. She lived on Fifth Avenue in the vicinity of Sixtieth Street. The irreproachable manservant who answered the bell had reached a period of life equally removed from the rawness of youth and the seediness of age. With a demeanor subdued, and not too unctuous to be consistent with a proper self-respect, he aided them to take off their overcoats in a large hall, exquisitely furnished in the spirit of the modern school of high art. " What name shall I say, sir ?" " Mr. Remington, please." " Thank you, sir." The servant drew aside the portiere which hung across the doorway of the adjoining room : " Mr. Woodbury Stoughton— Mr. Remington." Remington found himself in a spacious parlor, dim with faint daylight, strained through colored shades, and the afterglow of a wood fire. A maze of low tables, footstools, and other tasteful-looking knick-knacks separated the young men from their hostess, whose sofa was beside the distant hearth. She laid aside the volume which lay open on her lap and rose to greet them with a cordial smile. She was dressed simply, in a loose-fitting costume of some cashmere material of a neutral, greenish-brown tint. A single pale pink ro...
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Unleavened Bread
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It was a brilliant September night with a touch of autumn vigor in the atmosphere, which had not been without its effect on the company, who had driven off in gay spirits, most of them in hay-carts or other vehicles capable of carrying a party. Their songs and laughter floated back along the winding country road. A novel by Robert Grant (1852-1940), an American author and a jurist.
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