Serpentsummer

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.

Ridgegrove

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

Chillcactus

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

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

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.