Shiftpond

Then followed a battle of looks between them, but the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.

Minnowfrost

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

Healerslow

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. Geckopepper.

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

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.

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

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.