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Veiled Fury

Emily Brontë · Wuthering Heights · Project Gutenberg

2026-05-05
It’s like a colt’s mane over his eyes!” He ventured this remark without any intention to insult; but Heathcliff’s violent nature was not prepared to endure the appearance of impertinence from one whom he seemed to hate, even then, as a rival. He seized a turee...

Stubborn Rebellion

Jules Verne · A Journey to the Centre of the Earth · Project Gutenberg

2026-04-21
This demonstration of rebellion was followed by a volley of words and a stout application of whipcord; also followed by kicks on the part of the horse, which threw its head and heels upwards and tried to throw his rider. At length the sturdy little pony, sprea...

Turbulent Encounter

Herman Melville · Moby-Dick · Project Gutenberg

2026-04-20
That instant, the White Whale made a sudden rush among the remaining tangles of the other lines; by so doing, irresistibly dragged the more involved boats of Stubb and Flask towards his flukes; dashed them together like two rolling husks on a surf-beaten beach...

Silent Defeat

H. G. Wells · The War of the Worlds · Project Gutenberg

2026-04-15
And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—_dead!_—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems...

Silent Defiance

Thomas Hardy · Tess of the d’Urbervilles · Project Gutenberg

2026-04-05
“No, sir,” she said, revealing the red and ivory of her mouth as her eye lit in defiant triumph; “not again, if I know it!” “What—you won’t get up beside me?” “No; I shall walk.” “’Tis five or six miles yet to Trantridge.” “I don’t care if ’tis dozens. I’ll sw...