He was now very anxious on my account, and disturbed at the evident magnitude of the trouble. His mind was inclined to run, even as mine had run on Sa...

He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man. I w...

Whenever I had a mind to see the town, it was always in my travelling-closet; which Glumdalclitch held in her lap in a kind of open sedan, after the f...

Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past. It is allowed on all han...

From Ripley until I came through Pyrford I was in the valley of the Wey, and the red glare was hidden from me. As I ascended the little hill beyond Py...

There was something so panther-like in the movement--something so unhuman, that it seemed to sober us all from the shock of his coming. The first to a...

The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account. In play, she...

“Very well--and this offer of marriage you have refused?” “I have, sir.” “Very well.

Reaching the bottom, about five yards deep, he went on his knees and filled his bag with oysters picked up at random. Then he went up, emptied it, pul...

The cottage of my protectors had been the only school in which I had studied human nature, but this book developed new and mightier scenes of action. ...