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Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Grenville Kleiser

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Chapter 20

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

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C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

Chapter 22

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

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Written by Kathleen Gatliffe, recorded by Kathleen Gatliffe and Librivox Volunteers

The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

Puss in Boots

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

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William Patten

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

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In The Sayings of Confucius

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Confucius 孔子

Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confu…

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In The Devil's Dictionary

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Meleager and Atalanta

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

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Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Governor Hunt, Human and Just

In The Autobiography of Mother Jones

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Mother Jones and Mary Harris Jones

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…

1-05 Part First - Chapter 5

In Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…