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... taste for the ocean?-- Let him follow the Voyage of the Aurora (S. Low), and revel in mutiny, pirates, and the woes of slavery in the last century, detailed with gusto by II. Collingwood. Or he can learn the ordinary incidents of a voyage on The Briny ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1885
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1466 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

OUR TEN-GUINEA SHORT STORY: MAT. A. PAN, THE OTHER LITTLE BOY

... again by and by. ft Whoso is breathed upon by the rural Pan is never ft happy among mortals ever he seeks to escape from the slavery of Humansland to the green gladness of svlvan scenes, to the sunlight, and the moonlight, and the starlight. Ever the music ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2914 | Page: 18 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Cripps the Carrier: CHAPTER LVI; FATAL ACCIDENT TO THE CARRIER

... plough- and-Bible enterprise, HardenoAv set forth to open a track for commerce and civilisation, and to fight the devil and slavery in the rich rude heart of Africa. Besides his extraordinary gift of tongues, he had many other qualifications-- the a iriness ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1876
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3530 | Page: 10 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

NINETY-THREE: PART THE THIRD--IN VENDEE

... barbarity What a degradation of the Revolution What a humiliation of the Republic 1 Whilst this creature of prejudices and slaveries, suddenly transformed, became once again a human being, the men who strove for deliverance and freedom chose to cling to ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1874
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 7502 | Page: 14 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE DEPARTURE OF KING DERMOT

... of curiosity. They were Saxons, slaves of Robert FitzHarding, Reeve of Bristol, but slaves who seemed to have thriven upon slavery. Further out lay moored a ship, or rather, galley, for her starboard, which faced the shore, showed a double row of black ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3918 | Page: 36 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE WINNING OF HEATHER

... knot he had to tie another. Yon mus'nt mind if I laugh a bit, but I 'm that upset when I see a man deliberately runnin' into slavery 'at I can't help it. I daresay this dear young creature o' yours is all you sweer she is just as I believe your poetry is ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4115 | Page: 24 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE DUEL IN THE VALLE DES VAUX

... vulgar furs I am in ecstasy. Shiver in the needle- cold that comes from the sea, spurn with the set mouth and shrunken eye of slavery the boisterous taunts of the ruling wind, distort with the malice of satire the naked figures of trees that will be beautiful ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3962 | Page: 34 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

NINETY-THREE: PART THE SECOND--IN PARIS

... country innocence sacred in the accused who was ac quitted, whom it indemnified. It branded the slave-trade it abolished slavery. It proclaimed civic unity. It decreed gratuitous instruction. It organized national education by the normal school of Paris ...

THE VILLAGE SURGEON: A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

... bed 1 August 1 6, 1 86 On one side of the double grating stood Liberty and Outward Respectability, on the other slouched Slavery and Degradation. Yes, there I stood facing Montague Hartland. When first he saw me he glared at me like a wild beast. What ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1874
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5627 | Page: 11 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

MONTEZUMA'S DAUGHTER: AUTHOR OF SHE, ALLAN QUARTERMAIN, &C; WHY THOMAS WINGFIELD TELLS HIS TALE

... he has given them desolation, for peace the sword of the Spaniard, for prosperity the rack and the torment and the day of slavery. For this it was that they did sacrifice, offering their own children on the altars of Huitzel and of Tezcat. And the Spaniards ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1893
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 6739 | Page: 11 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A Croup of Noble Dames: PRELIMINARY

... developed to such higher purposes, but for the ignoble ambition of her parents, and the conventions of the time was one of slavery to her own obsequious amativeness for a perverre and cruel man. She bore him several children in the eight following years ...

Published: Monday 01 December 1890
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 29288 | Page: 9 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative