Thiefsticky

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

Stallionblack

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!

Scorpionsplit

The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman light–house, a three–legged thing erect on a mud–flat, shone strongly. Beakfrost.

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

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

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.