Quote, "At this moment he fell back upon his pillow as if he had been shot, while the same look of horror came over his face which I had observed when I first entered the room. At the same instant there came, apparently from the air immediately above his bed, a sharp, ringing, tinkling sound, which I can only compare with the noise made by a bicycle alarm, though it differed from this in having a distinctly throbbing character. I have never, before or since, heard any sound which could be confounded with it."
Quote, "In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute, though, it must be acknowledged, not quite so highly esteemed in the City as she might be. "
Quote, "I hired a wagon that night and commenced selling the bitters on Main Street. Fisher Hill was a low, malarial town; and a compound hypothetical pneumocardiac anti-scorbutic tonic was just what I diagnosed the crowd as needing. The bitters started off like sweetbreads-on-toast at a vegetarian dinner. I had sold two dozen at fifty cents apiece when I felt somebody pull my coat tail. I knew what that meant; so I climbed down and sneaked a five dollar bill into the hand of a man with a German silver star on his lapel."
Quote, "The Great Stone Face, then, was a work of Nature in her mood of majestic playfulness, formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together in such a position as, when viewed at a proper distance, precisely to resemble the features of the human countenance. It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice. "
The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of tales. Set in the jungles of India, it tells the story of Mowgli who is brought up by a pack of wolves after being lost. The use of animals and their interaction with Mowgli give the stories important moral undertones. Fiction.
Live Lecture by Paul Tisdell centering around the secret activator of kabbalah. This lecture follows on from Secret I. It expands upon the idea, giving added depth to the Secret.
The Canterville Ghost is a popular Oscar Wilde novel about an American ambassador who after moving from America to England settles into a haunted castle.
Swimstrength supplements water-based training by introducing a new era of land-based core-strength exercise specific to the requirements of swimming. The revolutionary Collins-Technique establishes an exercise model for assessing and improving an athlete's posture, body awareness, motor coordination and muscle control.
