Horsebloom

He spoke of the happiness that was now certainly theirs, of the folly of not breaking sooner out of that magnificent prison of latter-day life, of the old romantic days that had passed from the world for ever.

Crowlava

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Finfancy

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Stormfog.

She stared at him in astonishment, and as she read something of the significant hieroglyphic of his battered face, her lips whitened.

One dog rolled before him, well-nigh slashed in half; but a second had him by the thigh, a third gripped his collar be- hind, and a fourth had the blade of the sword between its teeth, tasting its own blood.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour.

He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimoni- al grievances, but simply because he forgot him.

One dog rolled before him, well-nigh slashed in half; but a second had him by the thigh, a third gripped his collar be- hind, and a fourth had the blade of the sword between its teeth, tasting its own blood.

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.