On Guard
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:666 作者: 未知
简介:The speaker was a tall, handsome lad, a plebe at the West Point Military Academy. At the moment he was gazing inquiringly out of the tent door at a small orderly....
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简介:Braxfield, who had been butler to Sir Anthony Markenmore, Baronet, of Markenmore Court, for thirty years, was a man of method. All his life he had cultivated the habit of doing certain things at certa...
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简介:At one hundred and thirty, life was indeed gratifying for Titus McWorther. But for one missing detail, it would have been perfect....
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简介:Alyarsmit clung to the top of a tall swaying hair and squinted toward the ponderous caterpillar-shaped beast way off in the very far distance....
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:666 作者: 未知
简介:A solitary horsemana youth in early manhoodriding at a snails pace over the great plains, or karroo, of South Africa. His chin on his breast; his hands in the pockets of an old shooting-coat; his legs...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:666 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介:This tale, readerif you read it throughwill give you some insight into the condition, value, and vicissitudes of the light-vessels, or floating lighthouses, which guard the shores of this kingdom, and...
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简介:The last note of taps rang lingeringly through the corridors of The Fortress and died away just as a knock sounded on the door of the room occupied by Bob and Jack Golden....
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简介:A Fine ship was buffeting the waves, like a strong swimmer in his sport. The clouds dashed wildly to and fro, but left many wide spaces of blue to be dotted with stars. The sea was in high spirits, th...
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简介:He is an idle vagabond! the mayor of the good town of Southampton said, in high wratha ne'er do well, and an insolent puppy; and as to you, Mistress Alice, if I catch you exchanging words with him aga...
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简介:The substance of this little work was first published as a series of articles in the British Clayworker, in 189596, and I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietor of that Journal for permission t...