Books with title The Conquerors

A short story about Jimmy and James are two young boys who leave on the same block. They are best friends, adventurers in the realm of childhood and they decided to dig for buried treasure. What they dig up is a terror beyond their ability to put it into words. Unless that word is, a scream.The adventures of Jimmy and James are continued in the book, Death of Heaven.

The old brick palace at Williamsburg was in a tumult. The Governor tore off his wig and stamped it under foot in rage. "I'll teach them, the ingrates, the rebels!" Snatching at a worn bell-cord, but carefully replacing his wig, he stood with clinched fists and compressed lips, waiting. "They are going to meet in Williamsburg, eh? I'll circumvent them. These Virginia delegates! These rebellious colonists! I'll nip their little game! The land is ripe for insurrection. Negroes, Indians, rebels! There are enough rumblings now. Let me but play them off against each other, and then these colonists will know their friends. Let but the Indians rise—like naked chicks they'll fly to mother wings for shelter. I'll show them! I'll thwart their hostile plans!"

In this last book of Mordec’s adventures, he goes to war as a soldier in the Viking army.In alliance with English forces, the Vikings engage the Army of the Redeemed, which, under the leadership of Abbot Alonso de Llama, aims to conquer the British Isles and expel the Vikings from England. The Abbot holds Mordec to be his personal enemy.The Vikings are led by a famous warlord, Commander Tostig, and a great tycoon, Harald Goldmountain, the richest man of the age. Harald befriends Mordec, and treats him as his own son, having almost given up hope of finding the son he has lost.The great battle is fought, Mordec in the thick of it. His friends, Lily the young queen and Gus the born warrior, continue to play a prominent part in the story. There is genius and foolishness in the adventures, and tragedy and comedy.Mordec the Conqueror resolves the events of the series.

M—pls was an old town with a few factories, two flour mills, two or three saw mills, box factories and another concern where veneering was peeled from wood blocks softened with steam. The timber came from up the Tennessee River, which emptied into the Ohio a few miles up the river. There was also the market house, such as are to be seen in towns of the Southern states—and parts of the Northern. This market house, or place, as it is often called, was an open building, except one end enclosed by a meat-market, and was about forty by one hundred feet with benches on either side and one through the center for the convenience of those who walked, carrying their produce in a home-made basket. Those in vehicles backed to a line guarded by the city marshall, forming an alleyway the width of the market house for perhaps half a block, depending on how many farmers were on hand.

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A complete edition of a Danish classic literary masterpiece. Books I to IV: I. Boyhood; II. Apprenticeship; III. The Great Struggle; IV. Daybreak. A boat filled with emigrants from Sweden arrives at the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who have moved to Denmark to find work after the death of Pelle's mother. They find employment at a large farm, but find themselves treated as the lowest form of life. It is only as Pelle starts to speak Danish that he begins to gain in confidence, but is still discriminated against as a foreigner. But neither boy nor father is willing to give up their dream of finding a better life than that which they left in Sweden.

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