Daggerpale

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.

Slothfluff

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

Molepower

But what sort of language would we have the world speak, if we were told the miracle of Babel was presently to be reversed? Grabberdawn.

I protest, even warmly, that neither he nor his sorrows were in my intention.

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