Lucy lies in the tomb of her kin, a lordly death-house in a lonely churchyard, away from teeming London; where the air is fresh, and the sun rises ove...

However, upon waking, I found myself much recovered. It was now about eight o’clock at night, and the captain ordered supper immediately, thinking I h...

That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them. That the weather being calm, he...

As usual Van Helsing had thought ahead of everyone else, and was prepared with an exact ordering of our work. “It is perhaps well,” he said, “that at ...

The gentle words of Agatha and the animated smiles of the charming Arabian were not for me. The mild exhortations of the old man and the lively conver...

Darcy and his relation Colonel Fitzwilliam, I was ignorant of the truth myself. And when I returned home the ----shire was to leave Meryton in a week ...

“Is your honour looking for a boat?” “Have you a boat ready to sail?” “Yes, your honour; a pilot-boat—No. 43—the best in the harbour.” “Does she go fa...

When I asserted that the _Yahoos_ were the only governing animals in my country, which my master said was altogether past his conception, he desired t...

"Well," I said, "there can be no doubt now as to what we have to do. Water has utterly failed us; our journey is therefore at an end. Let us return." ...

A messenger was despatched half a day’s journey before us, to give the king notice of my approach, and to desire, “that his majesty would please to ap...