Singerjungle

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.

Pegasusrampant

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

Shiftsplash

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. Hornetflint.

Near it in the field, I remember, were three faint points of light, three telescopic stars infinitely remote, and all around it was the unfathomable darkness of empty space.

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!

Have I come to Utopia to hear this sort of thing?

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

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