A mere moment seems an inconsiderable factor in life-only its multiplication attaining importance and signifying time. It could never have occurred to Walter Hoxer that all his years of labor, the aggregation of the material values of industry, experience, skill, integrity, could be nullified by this minimum unit of space-as sudden, as potent, as destructive, as a stroke of lightning.
A mere moment seems an inconsiderable factor in life-only its multiplication attaining importance and signifying time. It could never have occurred to...
Tall, delicate, and stately, with all the finished symmetry and distinction that might appertain to a cultivated plant, yet sharing that fragility of texture and peculiar suggestion of evanescence characteristic of the unheeded weed as it flowers, the Chilhowee lily caught his eye. Albeit long familiar, the bloom was now invested with a special significance and the sight of it brought him to a sudden pause.
Tall, delicate, and stately, with all the finished symmetry and distinction that might appertain to a cultivated plant, yet sharing that fragility of ...
Under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock, Murfree first published this book in 1885. Set in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, it follows the adventures of the beautiful Dorinda Cayce, the outlaw Rick Tyler and the prophet preacher Hiram Kelsey
Under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock, Murfree first published this book in 1885. Set in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, it follows the adventu...
