类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The storm of the night was over. The winds had subsided almost as quickly as they had risen on the previous evening--as is ever the case in the West Indies and the tropics generally. Against a large number of ships of war, now riding in the waters of...
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简介： The Flamingo is most happy standing on one leg in a foot or two of water.There he waits patiently for any fish that may come his way....
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简介： THE origin of glass is lost in antiquity. Pliny, indeed, ascribes its discovery to certain Ph?nician mariners who, being shipwrecked upon a sandy shore, used a block of the natron which formed their cargo to support a pot which they were putting over...
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简介： THE sunlight got in Uncle Williams eyes. He looked up from the map spread on the table before him. Then he got up slowly and crossed to the window and drew down the turkey-red curtaina deep glow filled the room. Juno, on the lounge, stirred a little...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Late on Monday afternoon, March 16, 1914, a rumour fired imaginations, like a train of gunpowder, all over Paris. In newspaper offices, in cafs, in clubs, people asked one another whether they had heard the news and whether the news were true. It see...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： So this was to be her homeand for three long months! Patricia Meade dropped her suitcase on a convenient chair and gazed curiously about her. A hotel bedroom, with stiff-looking twin brass beds, two willow rockers, one straight chair, an imposing mah...
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简介： In May 1845, Sir John Franklin sailed from England with the ships Erebus and Terror, on an expedition to attempt the discovery of a North-West Passage, or water communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, to the North of the American Conti...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It has been the misfortune of Rhode Island to have had its earlier history written and read under the bias of prejudices engendered by the controversies which led to its settlement. Justice has not yet been done to the prescience and statesmanship of...
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简介： In which Clarence Esmond places himself in the hands of the Bright-eyed Goddess of Adventure, and is entrusted by that Deity to the care of a Butchers Boy....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The present collection is intended to exemplify the spirit of the Czech race. It may perhaps be objected that folk-tale themes are part of a common stock belonging to all European races, and even to many primitive peoples: but though this is perfectl...
