Lionboulder

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

Wingpebble

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

Cranespectrum

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. Stormtree.

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

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.