Piperrune

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

Shakerflax

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.

Killerdawn

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

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

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

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

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

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.