Their tallest trees are about seven feet high: I mean some of those in the great royal park, the tops whereof I could but just reach with my fist clen...

He would probably have remained longer had it not been for the sound of guns that began about that hour in the south. As if in answer, the ironclad se...

With tools made of these flints, they likewise cut their hay, and reap their oats, which there grow naturally in several fields; the _Yahoos_ draw hom...

His manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little bend of the knees...

He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors. Through this work I obtained a cursory...

Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth’s wishes, for she was impatient to get home. Bennet sent them word that they coul...

When I had put an end to these long discourses, his majesty, in a sixth audience, consulting his notes, proposed many doubts, queries, and objections,...

Outside, the soil was banked high against the house. At the top of the window frame we could see an uprooted drainpipe.

I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure—I was now alone. In the universit...

It was a glorious sight to see how the electric light brought out the sparkles in the walls of the calcareous rocks, and the old red sandstone. One mi...