Chillercrimson

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

Ribmire

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

Spurplump

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

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

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

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.

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.