Bennet thought it possible they might have gone to one of them, on their first coming to London, before they procured lodgings. Gardiner himself did n...

And I saw one, one day, out by Wandsworth, picking houses to pieces and routing among the wreckage. So soon as they’ve settled all our guns and ships,...

Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and on the other, retailin...

Half an hour later several members of the Reform came in and drew up to the fireplace, where a coal fire was steadily burning. Fogg’s usual partners a...

“Because,” he said sternly, “it is too late--or too early. “This was stolen in the night.” “How, stolen,” I asked in wonder, “since you have it now?” ...

But after what we now see, to allow a doubt is to insult scientific inquiry. There is the body; you can see it; you can touch it. It is not a skeleton...

All this while we were advancing on our journey; and at length night came; but as I had remarked the evening before, the luminous state of the atmosph...

They were confined for the evening at different tables; and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the ro...

Collins’s triumph, in consequence of this invitation, was complete. The power of displaying the grandeur of his patroness to his wondering visitors, a...

You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are t...