Foxbutton

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.

Loontree

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

Rathazel

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

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.

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

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

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.