Ribprickle

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

Waspmud

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.

Snarldaffodil

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. Batsulpher.

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

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.

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

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.

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