Birdstream

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

Howlerseed

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.

Toucansummer

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

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

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.

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.

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.