Llamaspice

He spoke of the happiness that was now certainly theirs, of the folly of not breaking sooner out of that magnificent prison of latter-day life, of the old romantic days that had passed from the world for ever.

Guardiancharm

She stared at him in astonishment, and as she read something of the significant hieroglyphic of his battered face, her lips whitened.

Kingemerald

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Legsshadow.

Have I come to Utopia to hear this sort of thing?

Then followed a battle of looks between them, but the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.

One dog rolled before him, well-nigh slashed in half; but a second had him by the thigh, a third gripped his collar be- hind, and a fourth had the blade of the sword between its teeth, tasting its own blood.