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Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | obscurity one learned that there were different degrees of darkness among the trees that some were dimly visible while between and among them there were coal black shadowed patches like the mouths of caves from which I shrank in horror as I passed I thought of the despairing yell of the tortured iguanodon that dreadful... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | and manners of a man He was short of his age with rather bow legs and little sharp ugly eyes His hat was stuck on the top of his head so lightly that it threatened to fall off every moment and would have done so very often if the wearer had not had a knack of every now and then giving his head a sudden twitch which bro... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | you would spare the money to do my friend Herbert a lasting service in life but which from the nature of the case must be done without his knowledge I could show you how Why must it be done without his knowledge she asked settling her hands upon her stick that she might regard me the more attentively Because said I I b... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | of a particular salt which I knew from my experiments to be the last ingredient required and late one accursed night I compounded the elements watched them boil and smoke together in the glass and when the ebullition had subsided with a strong glow of courage drank off the potion The most racking pangs succeeded a grin... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | in Tunstall hamlet a group of poor countryfolk stood wondering at the summons Tunstall hamlet at that period in the reign of old King Henry VI wore much the same appearance as it wears to day A score or so of houses heavily framed with oak stood scattered in a long green valley ascending from the river At the foot the ... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | Oh but Charles tell Captain Wentworth he need not be afraid of mentioning poor Dick before me for it would be rather a pleasure to hear him talked of by such a good friend Charles being somewhat more mindful of the probabilities of the case only nodded in reply and walked away The girls were now hunting for the Laconia... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | casual phrases that had fallen from the old man with whom he had talked in the darkness recurred to him The Surveyor General in effect endorsed the old man s words We try and make the elementary schools very pleasant for the little children They will have to work so soon Just a few simple principles obedience industry ... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | breed and the colour s come off patchy instead of mixing I ve heard of such things before And it s the common way with horses as any one can see CHAPTER IV MR CUSS INTERVIEWS THE STRANGER I have told the circumstances of the stranger s arrival in Iping with a certain fulness of detail in order that the curious impressi... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | voices were dry and thin so that we bent towards one another and spared our words I stood out against it with all my might was rather for scuttling the boat and perishing together among the sharks that followed us but when Helmar said that if his proposal was accepted we should have drink the sailor came round to him I... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | would sometimes hang about our rock so that we scarce dared to breathe It was in this way that I first heard the right English speech one fellow as he went by actually clapping his hand upon the sunny face of the rock on which we lay and plucking it off again with an oath I tell you it s ot says he and I was amazed at ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | was already dense the snow was growing thicker and he moved like a blind man and with a blind man s terrors At last he climbed a fence thinking to drop into the road and found himself staggering instead among the iron furrows of a ploughland endless it seemed as a whole county And next he was in a wood beating among yo... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | or read to Edmund was the companion he preferred His aunt worried him by her cares and Sir Thomas knew not how to bring down his conversation or his voice to the level of irritation and feebleness Edmund was all in all Fanny would certainly believe him so at least and must find that her estimation of him was higher tha... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | presently expected Montgomery to arise therefrom and exact vengeance Now these said I pointing to the other bodies They took care not to approach the place where they had thrown Montgomery into the water but instead carried the four dead Beast People slantingly along the beach for perhaps a hundred yards before they wa... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | this I ve done some science myself I did my Biology at University College getting out the ovary of the earthworm and the radula of the snail and all that Lord It s ten years ago But go on go on tell me about the boat He was evidently satisfied with the frankness of my story which I told in concise sentences enough for ... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | of and maltreated by that ingenious gentleman with the candle in his hand who has placed his life in considerable danger as I can professionally certify Messrs Blathers and Duff looked at Mr Giles as he was thus recommended to their notice The bewildered butler gazed from them towards Oliver and from Oliver towards Mr ... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | ardently though I felt miserable Mr Creakle then caned Tommy Traddles for being discovered in tears instead of cheers on account of Mr Mell s departure and went back to his sofa or his bed or wherever he had come from We were left to ourselves now and looked very blank I recollect on one another For myself I felt so mu... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | what signifies a theatre We shall be only amusing ourselves Any room in this house might suffice We must have a curtain said Tom Bertram a few yards of green baize for a curtain and perhaps that may be enough Oh quite enough cried Mr Yates with only just a side wing or two run up doors in flat and three or four scenes ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | church It stood wide open within every corner of the pavement was crowded with fugitive burghers surrounded by their families and laden with the most precious of their possessions while at the high altar priests in full canonicals were imploring the mercy of God Even as Dick entered the loud chorus began to thunder in ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | such a man should be living this double life and I tried to persuade myself that my suspicions might after all prove to be ill founded But there was the female voice there was the secret nightly rendezvous in the turret chamber how could such facts admit of an innocent interpretation I conceived a horror of the man I w... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | no reasonable evidence to implicate any person but this woman and on the improbabilities of her having been able to do it Mr Jaggers principally rested his case You may be sure said Wemmick touching me on the sleeve that he never dwelt upon the strength of her hands then though he sometimes does now I had told Wemmick ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | said here we are and God grant there be nothing wrong Amen Poole said the lawyer Thereupon the servant knocked in a very guarded manner the door was opened on the chain and a voice asked from within Is that you Poole It s all right said Poole Open the door The hall when they entered it was brightly lighted up the fire ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | last I had a chance of clearly seeing him I had never set eyes on him before so much was certain He was small as I have said I was struck besides with the shocking expression of his face with his remarkable combination of great muscular activity and great apparent debility of constitution and last but not least with th... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | his bright eyes on Graham You are indeed the Sleeper he said I saw you asleep When it was the law that anyone might see you I am the man who was in the trance said Graham They have imprisoned me here I have been here since I awoke at least three days The intruder seemed about to speak heard something glanced swiftly at... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | FRIENDS About noon next day when the Dodger and Master Bates had gone out to pursue their customary avocations Mr Fagin took the opportunity of reading Oliver a long lecture on the crying sin of ingratitude of which he clearly demonstrated he had been guilty to no ordinary extent in wilfully absenting himself from the ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | noticed one peculiarity above all other windows in the house it commands the nearest outlook on to the moor There is an opening between two trees which enables one from this point of view to look right down upon it while from all the other windows it is only a distant glimpse which can be obtained It follows therefore ... |
Jane Austen | Emma | not care whether I meet him or not except that of the two I had rather not see him and indeed I would go any distance round to avoid him but I do not envy his wife in the least I neither admire her nor envy her as I have done she is very charming I dare say and all that but I think her very ill tempered and disagreeabl... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | last offices to our poor friend Together we made our way down the precipitous slope and approached the body black and clear against the silvered stones The agony of those contorted limbs struck me with a spasm of pain and blurred my eyes with tears We must send for help Holmes We cannot carry him all the way to the Hal... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | of it But I think I might as well trust to a blind fiddler Pray God you re right Pray God I am says Alan to me But where did I hear it Well well it will be as it must As we got nearer to the turn of the land the reefs began to be sown here and there on our very path and Mr Riach sometimes cried down to us to change the... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | laws of Nature there is an end of our investigation But we are bound to exhaust all other hypotheses before falling back upon this one I think we ll shut that window again if you don t mind It is a singular thing but I find that a concentrated atmosphere helps a concentration of thought I have not pushed it to the leng... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | the visit beforehand with Miss Lavinia and Agnes was expected to tea I was in a flutter of pride and anxiety pride in my dear little betrothed and anxiety that Agnes should like her All the way to Putney Agnes being inside the stage coach and I outside I pictured Dora to myself in every one of the pretty looks I knew s... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | myself and perhaps if I have very good luck I may meet with another Mr Collins in time The situation of affairs in the Longbourn family could not be long a secret Mrs Bennet was privileged to whisper it to Mrs Phillips and she ventured without any permission to do the same by all her neighbours in Meryton The Bennets w... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | your hearts love will carry you all lengths even such as you who have home friends other admirers everything to fill them When such as I who have no certain roof but the coffinlid and no friend in sickness or death but the hospital nurse set our rotten hearts on any man and let him fill the place that has been a blank ... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | monster crab that stood just behind me Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks its mouth was all alive with appetite and its vast ungainly claws smeared with an algal slime were descending upon me In a moment my hand was on the lever and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters But I was still on the... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | she was very bad handwriting apart a more than indifferent speller and as Joe was a more than indifferent reader extraordinary complications arose between them which I was always called in to solve The administration of mutton instead of medicine the substitution of Tea for Joe and the baker for bacon were among the mi... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | Dick she cried Dick And then to the wonder of the lad this beautiful and tall young lady made but one step of it and threw her arms about his neck and gave him a hundred kisses all in one Oh the fool fellow she cried Oh dear Dick Oh if ye could see yourself Alack she added pausing I have spoilt you Dick I have knocked ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | dear hand rested like warm velvet upon my lips Not another word Sir You should have been at the office for evening duty half an hour ago only I hadn t the heart to remind you Some day perhaps when you have won your place in the world we shall talk it over again And so it was that I found myself that foggy November even... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | I next turned my attention might have been about half full of a blood red liquor which was highly pungent to the sense of smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether At the other ingredients I could make no guess The book was an ordinary version book and contained little but a series of dates T... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | her mind into a sober state and incline her to a juster estimate of the value of that home of greater permanence and equal comfort of which she had the offer It was a medicinal project upon his niece s understanding which he must consider as at present diseased A residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | more than a mile or two off Hardly that Well it cannot be far if Barrymore had to carry out the food to it And he is waiting this villain beside that candle By thunder Watson I am going out to take that man The same thought had crossed my own mind It was not as if the Barrymores had taken us into their confidence Their... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | Dick and Esther met at the stile beside the cross roads had there been any one to see them but the birds and summer insects it would have been remarked that they met after a different fashion from the day before Dick took her in his arms and their lips were set together for a long while Then he held her at arm s length... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | it was only Maretas the youngster whom we had saved who looked wistfully at us and told us by his gestures that he was grieved for our thwarted wishes Ever since their crowning triumph with the ape men they looked upon us as supermen who bore victory in the tubes of strange weapons and they believed that so long as we ... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | be my only hope a poor hope perhaps but better than despair And after all it was a beautiful and curious world But probably the machine had only been taken away Still I must be calm and patient find its hiding place and recover it by force or cunning And with that I scrambled to my feet and looked about me wondering wh... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | awful fate to which it seemed destined As I thought of that I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me but I contained myself The hillock as I have said was a kind of island in the forest From its summit I could now make out through a haze of smoke the Palace of Green Porcelain and fro... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | all his little arrangements exactly as he left them These are his wigwams with the roofs off You can even see his hearth and his couch if you have the curiosity to go inside But it is quite a town When was it inhabited Neolithic man no date What did he do He grazed his cattle on these slopes and he learned to dig for t... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | quick movement and a confusion of brilliant fabrics poured out over his knees You lived Sire in a period essentially cylindrical the Victorian With a tendency to the hemisphere in hats Circular curves always Now He flicked out a little appliance the size and appearance of a keyless watch whirled the knob and behold a l... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | was in a state of considerable irritation They might have been talking thus for a quarter of an hour or more when Monks by which name the Jew had designated the strange man several times in the course of their colloquy said raising his voice a little I tell you again it was badly planned Why not have kept him here amon... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | the world But he let it go and it closed with a loud noise There was no light How very dreary cold and still it was Shivering from head to foot he made his way upstairs into the room where he had been last disturbed He had made a kind of compact with himself that he would not think of what had happened until he got hom... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | the cat began miaowing about the room I tried to hush it by talking to it and then I decided to turn it out I remember the shock I had when striking a light there were just the round eyes shining green and nothing round them I would have given it milk but I hadn t any It wouldn t be quiet it just sat down and miaowed a... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | the private room gnawing his nails there he dined sitting alone with his fears the waiter visibly quailing before his eye and thence when the night was fully come he set forth in the corner of a closed cab and was driven to and fro about the streets of the city He I say I cannot say I That child of Hell had nothing hum... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | movement made them aware of me I suppose they saw merely a figure moving quietly and quickly away Who s that cried one and Stop there shouted the other I dashed around a corner and came full tilt a faceless figure mind you on a lanky lad of fifteen He yelled and I bowled him over rushed past him turned another corner a... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | rector of Longbourn I should very strenuously have opposed it You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian but never to admit them in your sight or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing _That_ is his notion of Christian forgiveness The rest of his letter is only about his dear Charlotte s situation an... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | that tramp has hidden there are marvels miracles But this was not a method it was an idea that might lead to a method by which it would be possible without changing any other property of matter except in some instances colours to lower the refractive index of a substance solid or liquid to that of air so far as all pra... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | choice bird Sauces wines all the accessories we wanted and all of the best were given out by our host from his dumb waiter and when they had made the circuit of the table he always put them back again Similarly he dealt us clean plates and knives and forks for each course and dropped those just disused into two baskets... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | memory and one at least the man who lay in the damp grasses by my side will know if I have lied A wide open space lay before us some hundreds of yards across all green turf and low bracken growing to the very edge of the cliff Round this clearing there was a semi circle of trees with curious huts built of foliage piled... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | he came back is inseparable from the person to whom you have adverted is it Wemmick looked very serious I couldn t undertake to say that of my own knowledge I mean I couldn t undertake to say it was at first But it either is or it will be or it s in great danger of being As I saw that he was restrained by fealty to Lit... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | why he hadn t said there was a ring before instead of talking about all manner of things that had nothing to do with it and keeping her half pint of beer waiting on the steps There s a change come over you Mrs Peg said Arthur following her out with his eyes What it means I don t quite know but if it lasts we shan t agr... |
Jane Austen | Emma | not allow yourself Her arm was pressed again as he added in a more broken and subdued accent The feelings of the warmest friendship Indignation Abominable scoundrel And in a louder steadier tone he concluded with He will soon be gone They will soon be in Yorkshire I am sorry for _her_ She deserves a better fate Emma un... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | could put in the course of an hour you would never be able to prove that it was _not_ Thornton Lacey for such it certainly was You inquired then No I never inquire But I _told_ a man mending a hedge that it was Thornton Lacey and he agreed to it You have a good memory I had forgotten having ever told you half so much o... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | uneven causeway Dick with his hand upon the other s knee How call ye your name asked Dick Call me John Matcham replied the lad And what make ye to Holywood Dick continued I seek sanctuary from a man that would oppress me was the answer The good Abbot of Holywood is a strong pillar to the weak And how came ye with Sir D... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | a distaste or nourished a grudge against him Then you don t love me he said drawing back from her he also as though her touch had burnt him and then as she made no answer he repeated with another intonation imperious and yet still pathetic You don t love me _do_ you _do_ you I don t know she replied Why do you ask me O... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | understand that if he was aware of anybody Tom Jack or Richard being about the chambers or about the immediate neighborhood he had better get Tom Jack or Richard out of the way while you were out of the way He would be greatly puzzled what to do He _was_ puzzled what to do not the less because I gave him my opinion tha... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | a thing that s enough without any why or because either replied Mr Claypole with dignity Well you needn t be so cross said his companion A pretty thing it would be wouldn t it to go and stop at the very first public house outside the town so that Sowerberry if he come up after us might poke in his old nose and have us ... |
Jane Austen | Emma | very much for thinking of sending for Perry and only regretted that she had not done it She should always send for Perry if the child appeared in the slightest degree disordered were it only for a moment She could not be too soon alarmed nor send for Perry too often It was a pity perhaps that he had not come last night... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | think It was hard to say whence it came It rose and fell with the wind Isn t that the direction of the great Grimpen Mire Yes it is Well it was up there Come now Watson didn t you think yourself that it was the cry of a hound I am not a child You need not fear to speak the truth Stapleton was with me when I heard it la... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | must have been partly turned for I could scarcely understand the things I saw Presently I observed Mr Riach and the seamen busy round the skiff and still in the same blank ran over to assist them and as soon as I set my hand to work my mind came clear again It was no very easy task for the skiff lay amidships and was f... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | it be I think I must have had a kind of frenzy I remember running violently in and out among the moonlit bushes all round the sphinx and startling some white animal that in the dim light I took for a small deer I remember too late that night beating the bushes with my clenched fist until my knuckles were gashed and ble... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | sumptuous that the tavern was thrown into commotion and when all was done commanded Macfarlane to settle the bill It was late before they separated the man Gray was incapably drunk Macfarlane sobered by his fury chewed the cud of the money he had been forced to squander and the slights he had been obliged to swallow Fe... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | out at a moment s notice To me with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom and in the cold dank air of the vault They have but one retreat whispered Holmes That is back through the house into Saxe Coburg Square I hope that you have done what I asked ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | like himself in his fine French clothes though to be sure they were now grown almost too battered and withered to deserve the name of fine I was then taken out in my turn by another of the sons and given that change of clothing of which I had stood so long in need and a pair of Highland brogues made of deer leather rat... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Every clue seems to slip through my fingers I have been at work upon it all day And very wet it seems to have made you said Holmes laying his hand upon the arm of the pea jacket Yes I have been dragging the Serpentine In Heaven s name what for In search of the body of Lady St Simon Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his ch... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Before him I have step by step abandoned name and reputation peace and quiet house and home I have kept your name and reputation for you and your peace and quiet and your house and home too said Uriah with a sulky hurried defeated air of compromise Don t be foolish Mr Wickfield If I have gone a little beyond what you w... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | and while the Musgroves were in the first class of society in the country the young Hayters would from their parents inferior retired and unpolished way of living and their own defective education have been hardly in any class at all but for their connexion with Uppercross this eldest son of course excepted who had cho... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | CHALLENGER This was the letter that I read aloud to Tarp Henry who had come down early to hear the result of my venture His only remark was There s some new stuff cuticura or something which is better than arnica Some people have such extraordinary notions of humor It was nearly half past ten before I had received my m... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | not been possessed of that very useful appendage a voice for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over the iron bedstead rustled the pale face of a young woman was raised ... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | morning Then I went to the corner of the enclosure and stared inland at the green bush that had swallowed up Moreau and Montgomery When would they return and how Then far away up the beach a little grey Beast Man appeared ran down to the water s edge and began splashing about I strolled back to the doorway then to the ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | ye would he choose You for a good wager answered Hatch My surcoat to a leather belt it would be you cried the old archer Ye burned Grimstone Bennet they ll ne er forgive you that my master And as for me I ll soon be in a good place God grant and out of bow shoot ay and cannon shoot of all their malices I am an old man ... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | where the shadows lurked and down a bushy slope I could see the Thing rather more distinctly now It was no animal for it stood erect At that I opened my mouth to speak and found a hoarse phlegm choked my voice I tried again and shouted Who is there There was no answer I advanced a step The Thing did not move only gathe... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | t be foolish about its effect on you It may have its effect on others and may be meant to have It s not worth discussing Yes it is said I because I cannot bear that people should say she throws away her graces and attractions on a mere boor the lowest in the crowd I can bear it said Estella Oh don t be so proud Estella... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | regard but though we have both reason to think my opinions not entirely unalterable they are not I hope quite so easily changed as that implies When I wrote that letter replied Darcy I believed myself perfectly calm and cool but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit The letter perh... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | he walked up and down the street and had Mr Wickham appeared Kitty and Lydia would certainly have continued the occupation but unluckily no one passed windows now except a few of the officers who in comparison with the stranger were become stupid disagreeable fellows Some of them were to dine with the Phillipses the ne... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | happened For a moment I suspected that my intellect had tricked me Then I noted the clock A moment before as it seemed it had stood at a minute or so past ten now it was nearly half past three I drew a breath set my teeth gripped the starting lever with both hands and went off with a thud The laboratory got hazy and we... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | true that I could only groan and even my groan served Alan s purpose for it was overheard by the lass as she came flying in again with a dish of white puddings and a bottle of strong ale Poor lamb says she and had no sooner set the meat before us than she touched me on the shoulder with a little friendly touch as much ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | and you would think now that we love each other we might marry when we pleased But I fear darling we may have long to wait and shall want all our courage I have courage for anything she said I have all I want with you and my father I am so well off and waiting is made so happy that I could wait a lifetime and not weary... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | felt about for a comfortable seat among the rocks and having discovered a place where I could get a support for my back I stretched out my legs and settled myself down to wait I was wretchedly damp and cold but I tried to cheer myself with the reflection that modern science prescribed open windows and walks in all weat... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | apparently yelped and ran howling into Huxter s yard and with that the transit of the Invisible Man was accomplished For a space people stood amazed and gesticulating and then came panic and scattered them abroad through the village as a gust scatters dead leaves But Jaffers lay quite still face upward and knees bent a... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | How demanded his lordship Come sound ashore There is then a question of it The ship laboureth the sea is grievous and contrary replied the lad and by what I can learn of my fellow that steereth us we shall do well indeed if we come dry shod to land Ha said the baron gloomily thus shall every terror attend upon the pass... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | the worker with the gravitational force of seemingly endless work the employer with their suggestion of an infinite ocean of labour And as the standard of comfort rose as the complexity of the mechanism of living increased life in the country had become more and more costly or narrow and impossible The disappearance of... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | and happy when I have dreamed of her The old lady made no reply to this but wiping her eyes first and her spectacles which lay on the counterpane afterwards as if they were part and parcel of those features brought some cool stuff for Oliver to drink and then patting him on the cheek told him he must lie very quiet or ... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | not offensive to his patron He must write his own sermons and the time that remains will not be too much for his parish duties and the care and improvement of his dwelling which he cannot be excused from making as comfortable as possible And I do not think it of light importance that he should have attentive and concil... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | it had better not be attempted perhaps She had spoken it but she trembled when it was done conscious that her words were listened to and daring not even to try to observe their effect It was soon generally agreed that Tuesday should be the day Charles only reserving the advantage of still teasing his wife by persisting... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | forth a variety of most unaccountable and entangled sentences the upshot of which was that Mrs Kenwigs had examined him at great length that morning touching the origin of his acquaintance with and the whole life adventures and pedigree of Nicholas that Newman had parried these questions as long as he could but being a... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | without understanding the smoky shapes that drove slowly across this disc His attention was arrested by a sound that began abruptly It was cheering the frantic cheering of a vast but very remote crowd a roaring exultation This ended as sharply as it had begun like a sound heard between the opening and shutting of a doo... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Yates and followed soon afterwards by Mr Rushworth Edmund almost immediately took the opportunity of saying I cannot before Mr Yates speak what I feel as to this play without reflecting on his friends at Ecclesford but I must now my dear Maria tell _you_ that I think it exceedingly unfit for private representation and ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | by himself in a state of some bewilderment and even distress There were elements of laughter in the business but the black dress and the face that belonged to it and the hand that he had held in his inclined him to a serious view What was he under the circumstances called upon to do Perhaps to avoid the girl Well he wo... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | to England from Smyrna but next week I go back once more Many things I brought with me and I have a few things left but among them to my sorrow is one of these daggers You will remember that I have an appointment sir said the surgeon with some irritation pray confine yourself to the necessary details You will see that ... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | such an evening could supply from Lady Russell To her its greatest interest must be in having been very much talked of between her friend and Mr Elliot in having been wished for regretted and at the same time honoured for staying away in such a cause Her kind compassionate visits to this old schoolfellow sick and reduc... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | it was a secret gratification to herself to have seen her cousin and to know that the future owner of Kellynch was undoubtedly a gentleman and had an air of good sense She would not upon any account mention her having met with him the second time luckily Mary did not much attend to their having passed close by him in t... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | over me entirely and rested on my shoulders He had the face and beard which I associate with an Assyrian bull the former florid the latter so black as almost to have a suspicion of blue spade shaped and rippling down over his chest The hair was peculiar plastered down in front in a long curving wisp over his massive fo... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | its entire length it runs through a deep cutting and that unless someone had been on the edge of that cutting he could not have seen it There WAS someone on the edge of that cutting I was there And now I will tell you what I saw My assistant had remained at the points in order that he might superintend the switching of... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | stand who had exactly the face of Digby though as he very properly says Digby may not be the same but only his brother or some near relation Oh cried Nicholas again Yes said Mr Folair with undisturbed calmness that s what they say I thought I d tell you because really you ought to know Oh here s this blessed phenomenon... |
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