Lightningnebula

It is no doubt an optimistic enterprise. But it is good for awhile to be free from the carping note that must needs be audible when we discuss our present imperfections, to release ourselves from practical difficulties and the tangle of ways and means. It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it

Songwest

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

Eaterchecker

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. Chanterboulder.

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.

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

He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimoni- al grievances, but simply because he forgot him.

He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimoni- al grievances, but simply because he forgot him.

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.