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Athletic sports were in high favour at Plumfield; and the river where the old punt used to wabble about with a cargo of small boys, or echo to the shrill screams of little girls trying to get lilies, ...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 9 - The Tournament
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2008/5/29
THEY were always having grand tournaments there at Camelot; and very stirring and picturesque and ridiculous human bull-fights they were, too, but just a little wearisome to the practical mind. Howeve...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 8 - The Boss
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2008/5/29
TO be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer. The tower episode solidified my power, and made it impregnable. If any were perchance d...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 6 - The Eclipse
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2008/5/29
IN the stillness and the darkness, realization soon began to supplement knowledge. The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to REALIZE your fact, it takes on color. It is all the differ...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 3 - Knights of the Table Round
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2008/5/29
MAINLY the Round Table talk was monologues -- narrative accounts of the adventures in which these prisoners were captured and their friends and backers killed and stripped of their steeds and armor. A...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 2 - King Arthur's Court
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2008/5/29
THE moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way:
"Friend, do me a kindness. Do you belon...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Preface
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2008/5/29
THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existe...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 14 - “Defend Thee, Lord”
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2008/5/23
I PAID three pennies for my breakfast, and a most
extravagant price it was, too, seeing that one could
have breakfasted a dozen persons for that money; but
I was feeling good by this time, and I ha...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 1 - Camelot
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2008/5/23
"CAMELOT -- Camelot," said I to myself. "I
don't seem to remember hearing of it before.
Name of the asylum, likely."
It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely
as a dream, and as lones...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 10 - Beginnings of Civilization
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2008/5/23
THE Round Table soon heard of the challenge, and
of course it was a good deal discussed, for such
things interested the boys. The king thought I ought
now to set forth in quest of adventures, so ...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 11 - The Yankee in Search of Adventures
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2008/5/23
THERE never was such a country for wandering
liars; and they were of both sexes. Hardly a
month went by without one of these tramps arriving;
and generally loaded with a tale about some princess
...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 12 - Slow Torture
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2008/5/23
STRAIGHT off, we were in the country. It was
most lovely and pleasant in those sylvan solitudes
in the early cool morning in the first freshness of
autumn. From hilltops we saw fair green valleys...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 13 - Freemen
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2008/5/23
YES, it is strange how little a while at a time a person can be contented. Only a little while back,
when I was riding and suffering, what a heaven this
peace, this rest, this sweet serenity in th...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 15 - Sandy's Tale
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2008/5/23
AND so I'm proprietor of some knights," said I,
as we rode off. "Who would ever have supposed that I should live to list up assets of that sort.
I shan't know what to do with them; unless I raffle...
《A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court》Chapter 16 - Morgan Le Fay
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2008/5/23
IF knights errant were to be believed, not all castles
were desirable places to seek hospitality in. As a
matter of fact, knights errant were NOT persons to be
believed -- that is, measured by mo...