Ribboom

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

Armswift

It is no doubt an optimistic enterprise. But it is good for awhile to be free from the carping note that must needs be audible when we discuss our present imperfections, to release ourselves from practical difficulties and the tangle of ways and means. It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it

Healerred

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

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.

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

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

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