Download or read book THE MAID AT ARMS written by ROBERT W. CHAMBERS and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1902-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a hundred years the history of a great war waged by a successful nation is commonly reviewed by that nation with retrospective complacency.
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Download or read book The Maid at arms written by Robert William Chambers and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1902 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Maid at Arms written by Robert W. Chambers and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distance dims the panorama; haze obscures the ragged gaps in the pageant until the long lines of victorious armies move smoothly across the horizon, with never an abyss to check their triumph. Yet there is one people who cannot view the past through a mirage. The marks of the birth-pangs remain on the land; its struggle for breath was too terrible, its scars too deep to hide or cover. For us, the pages of the past turn all undimmed; battles, brutally etched, stand clear as our own hills against the sky -- for in this land we have no haze to soften truth. Treading the austere corridor of our Pantheon, we, too, come at last to victory -- but what a victory! Not the familiar, gracious goddess, wide-winged, crowned, bearing wreaths, but a naked, desperate creature, gaunt, dauntless, turning her iron face to the west. . . .
Download or read book The Maid at arms written by Robert William Chambers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maid-At-Arms was written in the year 1902 by Robert William Chambers. This book is one of the most popular novels of Robert William Chambers, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. Set in upstate New York during the American Revolution, Robert W. Chambers' 1902 novel follows the young George Ormond and Dorothy Varick, whose love must withstand the chaos of war.
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Download or read book The Maid at Arms written by Robert W Chambers and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do we part here?" I asked, sorry to quit my chance acquaintance of the Johnstown highway. He nodded, yawned again, and removed his round cap of silver-fox fur to scratch his curly head. "We certainly do part at these cross-roads, if you are bound for Varicks'," he said. I waited a moment, then thanked him for the pleasant entertainment his company had afforded me, and wished him a safe journey. "A safe journey?" he repeated, carelessly. "Oh yes, of course; safe journeys are rare enough in these parts. I'm obliged to you for the thought. You are very civil, sir. Good-bye."
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Download or read book The Maidatarms written by Robert W. Chambers and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Author-Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King In Yellow, published in 1895.
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Download or read book The Maid At Arms Illustrated written by Robert William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Robert William Chambers' 1902 novel, "The Maid-at-Arms". It is a heroic romance that tells the story of George Ormond and Dorothy Varick, two young would-be lovers living in New York during the American Revolution.
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Download or read book The Maid At Arms written by Robert W. Chambers and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Maid at Arms written by Robert W. Chambers and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a hundred years the history of a great war waged by a successful nation is commonly reviewed by that nation with retrospective complacency.
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