My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.

We are utterly unprepared for a sea voyage; it is simply madness to think of performing a journey of five hundred leagues upon a wretched pile of beam...

It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine Avenue. It was ...

She gave me a large bowlful, of which I drank very heartily, and found myself well refreshed. About noon, I saw coming towards the house a kind of veh...

His past life is always present to him; everything that we are forbidden he regrets. Nothing; he is not learned like you, sir; and has not the same ta...

Anxious as I was, I was for a long time doomed to disappointment. Hans coolly drew it in, and with it a fish, which struggled violently to escape. "It...

Towards evening it approached the Falkland group, the rough summits of which I recognised the following day. On the shores our nets brought in beautif...

It seemed but poor comfort to so brave and unselfish a soul, and impulsively I bent over and kissed him. The tears rose in his eyes, and there was a m...

To the east one only existed somewhere about the eightieth degree of latitude, the Esk, upon the island of Jan Mayen, not far from the frozen regions ...

Allahabad was now only twelve miles to the north-east. They stopped under a clump of bananas, the fruit of which, as healthy as bread and as succulent...