Passepartout was dispatched in search of the steward, and soon returned with two packs of cards, some pins, counters, and a shelf covered with cloth. ...

Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death. Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then...

He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts in London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student here. I am to get his re...

I could feel his hot and fetid breath on my neck; and with a horrid jump--awoke from my nightmare sleep. I was still on the raft with my uncle and the...

Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children. Although I intend to leave the description ...

These considerations moved me to hasten my departure somewhat sooner than I intended; to which the court, impatient to have me gone, very readily cont...

He has closed the account most accurately, and to-day begun a new record. How many of us begin a new record with each day of our lives? To me it seems...

I fancy that the worthy Professor in some measure shares my notions, if not my fears, for, after an attentive examination of the crowbar, he cast his ...

And it is quite natural that you should desire amusement at your age; and that you would weary of nursing a sick man, and that man _only_ your father....

Then he took my hand in his, and oh, Lucy, it was the first time he took _his wife’s_ hand, and said that it was the dearest thing in all the wide wor...