Skinnerspring

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

Spearlegend

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

Raverkiwi

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

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

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!

And with that he went off to see my father, taking me with him by the arm.

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.