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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, …

PART I. CHAPTER IX. THE TABLES OF AGES.

In Strength and How to Obtain It

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Eugen Sandow


In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by streng…

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…

Scenes, Actions and Dispositions of Relations and Positions

In Geography and Plays

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Gertrude Stein


Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-o…

On Some Military Snobs

In The Book of Snobs

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W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

Verses 321 - 400

In Omar Resung

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Charles G. Blanden


Most of the translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam have been in verse. However, there have been three notable exceptions to this conve…

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…

Its Supposed Checks and Balances, part 1

In The English Constitution

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Walter Bagehot


The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized for…