Ferretbristle

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

Griffinrampant

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

Knifelight

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. Seekerspring.

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

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.

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.

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.

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