# The triumph of the nut, and other parodies

Author: Ward, Christopher, 1868-1943

Genre: Parodies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74533

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+triumph+of+the+nut%2C+and+other+parodies+Ward&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Through the long casement window, which lazily unfolded its unaustere yet deliberate length in a benediction of sunlight, not more interminable than the crepitant genuflection of the waveless ocean, came the tall dark cry of the curlew, as it lashed its angry though querulous tail in intermittent certitude. Perhaps that was why the shiny, untarnished mud flats, blue veined with the tortuous eternal channels of the running tides, interspersed with the nostalgic counterparts of antiquity, and the gray green marshes, where the red shanks choired in uninterrupted but not unvexed prolixity, despite their propinquity, had always seemed to her as remote from the perpetual imbroglio with spiritua...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IXL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-triumph-of-the-nut-and-other-parodies-74533/chapters/10/index.md)