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Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | thought however that before taking the final step I should like to submit the whole matter to your consideration Well Miss Hunter if your mind is made up that settles the question said Holmes smiling But you would not advise me to refuse I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to see a sister of mine... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | difficulty in conveying my meaning At first my efforts met with a stare of surprise or inextinguishable laughter but presently a fair haired little creature seemed to grasp my intention and repeated a name They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other and my first attempts to make the exqui... |
Jane Austen | Emma | and staid to look through herself however she called me back presently and let me look too which was very good natured And how beautiful we thought he looked He was arm in arm with Mr Cole This is an alliance which whoever whatever your friends may be must be agreeable to them provided at least they have common sense a... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | seen conflicted confused him It seemed to him the most amazing thing of all that in his thirty years of life he had never tried to shape a picture of these coming times We were making the future he said and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making And here it is What have they got to what has been ... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | so much savage anger that it startled me What s that I called after him but the door had closed He came back again with the boiled mutton and I was so excited by the appetising smell of it that I forgot the noise of the beast that had troubled me After a day of alternate sleep and feeding I was so far recovered as to b... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | yet he replied I am looking about me Somehow that pursuit seemed more in keeping with Barnard s Inn I said in a tone of conviction Ah h Yes I am in a counting house and looking about me Is a counting house profitable I asked To do you mean to the young fellow who s in it he asked in reply Yes to you Why n no not to me ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | to drive a sort of bargain from whose ill results you have recently been smarting The one man took the lady the other the estate Now Mr David they talk a great deal of charity and generosity but in this disputable state of life I often think the happiest consequences seem to flow when a gentleman consults his lawyer an... |
Jane Austen | Emma | but _she_ would be ready to quarrel with you for using such words Don t let her imagine that you have spoken of her as a pretty young woman I hope I should know better he replied no depend upon it with a gallant bow that in addressing Mrs Weston I should understand whom I might praise without any danger of being though... |
Jane Austen | Emma | This will be complete enjoyment and I do not know Mrs Elton whether the uncertainty of our meetings the sort of constant expectation there will be of his coming in to day or to morrow and at any hour may not be more friendly to happiness than having him actually in the house I think it is so I think it is the state of ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | appeared to be much more modern than the central part of the house and the bright paper and numerous candles did something to remove the sombre impression which our arrival had left upon my mind But the dining room which opened out of the hall was a place of shadow and gloom It was a long chamber with a step separating... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | fewest words Except when it s blowing up and then they lengthens it out And now that he s thoroughly up to it let s have some supper and get a snooze before starting In pursuance of this request Nancy quickly laid the cloth disappearing for a few minutes she presently returned with a pot of porter and a dish of sheep s... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | glitter of black sea water overarched by buildings and vanishing either way into a blackness starred with receding lights A string of black barges passed seaward manned by blue clad men The road was a long and very broad and high tunnel along which big wheeled machines drove noiselessly and swiftly Here too the distinc... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | 5 pr G The people began to boo and shout at this a number of hard breathing wild eyed men came running past clawing with hooked fingers at the air There was a furious crush about a little doorway Asano did a brief inaccurate calculation Seventeen per cent per annum is their annuity on you They would not pay so much per... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | I cried with some bitterness I think that I have deserved better at your hands Holmes My dear fellow you have been invaluable to me in this as in many other cases and I beg that you will forgive me if I have seemed to play a trick upon you In truth it was partly for your own sake that I did it and it was my appreciatio... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | the South Downs and staring over his shoulder saw the battlements of Portsmouth Landing Stage towering over the ridge of Portsdown Hill In another moment there came into sight a spread of shipping like floating cities the little white cliffs of the Needles dwarfed and sunlit and the grey and glittering waters of the na... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | the long table began to write his letter with his mouth on one side for this business of the Black Arrow stuck sorely in his throat Meanwhile young Shelton was going on heartily enough with his breakfast when he felt a touch upon his arm and a very soft voice whispering in his ear Make not a sign I do beseech you said ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | a deep muttered rumble musical and yet menacing rising and falling like the low constant murmur of the sea The hound cried Holmes Come Watson come Great heavens if we are too late He had started running swiftly over the moor and I had followed at his heels But now from somewhere among the broken ground immediately in f... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | adding that he had been to the window not long before and that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from the same source He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr Neville St Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police As to Mrs St Clair s... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | of her as I have told you before quite afraid of her because she is so very clever but I respect her amazingly and wish we had such a neighbour at Uppercross Anne was amused by Henrietta s manner of being grateful and amused also that the course of events and the new interests of Henrietta s views should have placed he... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | this place I have not as yet an idea I have never yet encountered any problem however which my inventive brain was unable to solve and I promise you that to morrow I will turn my attention to the question of our descent And so the matter was allowed to rest But that evening by the light of the fire and of a single cand... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | long before I put this theory to the test of practice I knew well that I risked death for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity might by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I l... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | voice as he relinquished Mr Brownlow s hand The papers said Fagin drawing Oliver towards him are in a canvas bag in a hole a little way up the chimney in the top front room I want to talk to you my dear I want to talk to you Yes yes returned Oliver Let me say a prayer Do Let me say one prayer Say only one upon your kne... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | nor was his amazement at all lessened by hearing the voice of Mr Crummles exclaim It is he my friend my friend Bless my heart cried Nicholas struggling in the manager s arms what are you about The manager made no reply but strained him to his breast again exclaiming as he did so Farewell my noble my lion hearted boy In... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | may be so or it may not be but I couldn t think of it for an instant not on any account whatever I said I never would and I never will It s a very painful thing to have to reject proposals and I would much rather that none were made at the same time this is the answer that I determined long ago to make and this is the ... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | room where Edmund prepared her paper and ruled her lines with all the goodwill that her brother could himself have felt and probably with somewhat more exactness He continued with her the whole time of her writing to assist her with his penknife or his orthography as either were wanted and added to these attentions whi... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | fly blown little shop in a by way near Drury Lane with a window full of tinsel robes sham jewels wigs slippers dominoes and theatrical photographs The shop was old fashioned and low and dark and the house rose above it for four storeys dark and dismal I peered through the window and seeing no one within entered The ope... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | could lie down and rest It was not too soon My arms ached my back was cramped and I was trembling with the prolonged terror of a fall Besides this the unbroken darkness had had a distressing effect upon my eyes The air was full of the throb and hum of machinery pumping air down the shaft I do not know how long I lay I ... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Crowl Want me By name asked Newman By name replied Crowl Mr Newman Noggs as pat as need be Newman reflected for a few seconds and then hurried away muttering that he would be back directly He was as good as his word for in an exceedingly short time he burst into the room and seizing without a word of apology or explana... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | excitement and the two Bull men in their swathings of white Then came Moreau in a cluster of the Beast People his wide brimmed straw hat blown off his revolver in hand and his lank white hair streaming out The Hyena swine ran beside me keeping pace with me and glancing furtively at me out of his feline eyes and the oth... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Lizzy that you should be forced to have that disagreeable man all to yourself But I hope you will not mind it it is all for Jane s sake you know and there is no occasion for talking to him except just now and then So do not put yourself to inconvenience During their walk it was resolved that Mr Bennet s consent should ... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | zeal but sport and his time was otherwise trifled away without benefit from books or anything else He had very good spirits which never seemed much affected by his wife s occasional lowness bore with her unreasonableness sometimes to Anne s admiration and upon the whole though there was very often a little disagreement... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | like one who was trying to keep hold of an idea that eluded him They were put into my pocket by Weena when I travelled into Time He stared round the room I m damned if it isn t all going This room and you and the atmosphere of every day is too much for my memory Did I ever make a Time Machine or a model of a Time Machi... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | In the morning it was not long before we discovered the source of the hideous uproar which had aroused us in the night The iguanodon glade was the scene of a horrible butchery From the pools of blood and the enormous lumps of flesh scattered in every direction over the green sward we imagined at first that a number of ... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | life of man You find me fallen back FOR a spring and I have every reason to believe that a vigorous leap will shortly be the result I was expressing my satisfaction when Mrs Micawber came in a little more slatternly than she used to be or so she seemed now to my unaccustomed eyes but still with some preparation of hers... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | world and women and social life and that sort of thing and such an incident has the fascination of the unknown for me I know you and I knew her by sight I had even spoken to her once or twice I should very much like to hear from your own lips exactly what it was which occurred between you I won t tell you a word That s... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms and how I hesitated between my crowbar and a hatchet or a sword I could not carry both however and my bar of iron promised best against the bronze gates There were numbers of guns pistols and rifles The most were masses of rust but many were of some new metal and stil... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | without the talking laughing and singing of their daughters She played a great deal better than either of the Miss Musgroves but having no voice no knowledge of the harp and no fond parents to sit by and fancy themselves delighted her performance was little thought of only out of civility or to refresh the others as sh... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | we could do would be to pass the night in the open protected by a fire In the morning there was the getting of the Time Machine Towards that as yet I had only my iron mace But now with my growing knowledge I felt very differently towards those bronze doors Up to this I had refrained from forcing them largely because of... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | said the Voice and Mr Marvel abruptly became silent He blew out his cheeks and his eyes were eloquent of despair It s bad enough to let these floundering yokels explode my little secret without _your_ cutting off with my books It s lucky for some of them they cut and ran when they did Here am I No one knew I was invisi... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | consciousness of having by some complication of mutual trick or some overbearing authority of his been obliged to attend perhaps for half an hour to his lectures and restrictions on her designs on Sir Walter She exclaimed however with a very tolerable imitation of nature Oh dear very true Only think Miss Elliot to my g... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point Others will follow others will outstrip me on the same lines and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious incongruous and independent denizens I for my part from the nature of my life advanced infallibly in one direction a... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | from him but I learnt afterwards he was a great church goer while on shore But for all that says he I can be sorry to see another man with his back to the wall Can ye so indeed asked the Jacobite Well sir to be quite plain with ye I am one of those honest gentlemen that were in trouble about the years forty five and si... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | out his hand and seized the puzzle By George he cried I believe I ve got it The boy guessed right the very first time See here How many marks are on that paper Eighteen Well if you come to think of it there are eighteen cave openings on the hill side above us He pointed up to the caves when he gave it to me said I Well... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | send a telegram to San Francisco Thanks to my quickness we may hear to night There appears to be no doubt sir that John has been abominably used When did this take place asked the father Last night sir after you were asleep was the reply It s most extraordinary said Mr Nicholson Do you mean to say you have been out all... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | what further cards we have in our hands and play them with decision Could you swear to that man s face within the cab I could swear only to the beard And so could I from which I gather that in all probability it was a false one A clever man upon so delicate an errand has no use for a beard save to conceal his features ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | a schoolmaster in Chesterfield where I received an excellent education I travelled in my youth took to the stage and finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London One day my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the metropolis and I volunteered to supply them There was the point from whic... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | into the gallery came and stood on either hand of Graham You must remain here murmured Howard for a few moments and without waiting for a reply hurried away along the gallery But _why_ began Graham He moved as if to follow Howard and found his path obstructed by one of the men in red You have to wait here Sire said the... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | me a sketch of the course of events from memory Certainly though I cannot guarantee that I carry all the facts in my mind Intense mental concentration has a curious way of blotting out what has passed The barrister who has his case at his fingers ends and is able to argue with an expert upon his own subject finds that ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | own he was right in every feature and told my wonder Ha says he that s nothing Would ye believe me now that before the Act came out and when there were weepons in this country I could shoot Ay could I cries he and then with a leer If ye had such a thing as a pistol here to try with I would show ye how it s done I told ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of Fire The word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of spectators well dressed and ill gentlemen ostlers and servant maids joined in a general shriek of Fire Thick clouds of smoke curled through th... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | some hesitation he ordered that the friendship should cease an unfair command though seemingly inspired by the spirit of prophecy and John saying nothing continued to disobey the order under the rose John was nearly nineteen when he was one day dismissed rather earlier than usual from his father s office where he was s... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | countenances stooping to look in This glass has seen some strange things sir whispered Poole And surely none stranger than itself echoed the lawyer in the same tones For what did Jekyll he caught himself up at the word with a start and then conquering the weakness what could Jekyll want with it he said You may say that... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | whole crowd seemed to swing round in the direction of the glint of fire and I too was swung round by the magnetism of the movement In another second I was running one of a tumultuous shouting crowd in pursuit of the escaping Leopard man That is all I can tell definitely I saw the Leopard man strike Moreau and then ever... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | its being brought to an indefinably attentive stop assured me that he did not know who her father was This I had strongly suspected from Provis s account as Herbert had repeated it of his having kept himself dark which I pieced on to the fact that he himself was not Mr Jaggers s client until some four years later and w... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | overwork at which he laughed hugely I remember him standing in the open doorway bawling good night I shared a cab with the Editor He thought the tale a gaudy lie For my own part I was unable to come to a conclusion The story was so fantastic and incredible the telling so credible and sober I lay awake most of the night... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | and giddily through a long cresting swell She was on the starboard tack and on the left hand under the arched foot of the foresail I could see the sunset still quite bright This at such an hour of the night surprised me greatly but I was too ignorant to draw the true conclusion that we were going north about round Scot... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | ll laugh at all these scarecrows like a High School boy at a farce And with that Macfarlane took his departure and drove off up the wynd in his gig to get under cover before daylight Fettes was thus left alone with his regrets He saw the miserable peril in which he stood involved He saw with inexpressible dismay that t... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | but tearing her hair and dress in a transport of passion made such a rush at the Jew as would probably have left signal marks of her revenge upon him had not her wrists been seized by Sikes at the right moment upon which she made a few ineffectual struggles and fainted She s all right now said Sikes laying her down in ... |
Jane Austen | Emma | himself extremely anxious about her fair friend her fair lovely amiable friend Did she know had she heard any thing about her since their being at Randalls he felt much anxiety he must confess that the nature of her complaint alarmed him considerably And in this style he talked on for some time very properly not much a... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | story was written in the snow in front of me There was a double line of tracks of a booted man and a second double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked feet I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the latter was your son The first had walked both ways but the other had run swiftly a... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | Wentworth had not been above four or five times in the Miss Musgroves company and Charles Hayter had but just reappeared when Anne had to listen to the opinions of her brother and sister as to _which_ was the one liked best Charles gave it for Louisa Mary for Henrietta but quite agreeing that to have him marry either c... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | upon the open platform at the top Shoreby Church tower not only commanded the town as in a map but looked far on both sides over sea and land It was now near upon noon the day exceeding bright the snow dazzling And as Dick looked around him he could measure the consequences of the battle A confused growling uproar reac... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | she learned that he had actually written home to defer his return having promised to remain some days longer with his friend If she had felt impatience and regret before if she had been sorry for what she said and feared its too strong effect on him she now felt and feared it all tenfold more She had moreover to conten... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | wish I had my truncheon said the policeman going irresolutely to the door Once we open in he comes There s no stopping him Don t you be in too much hurry about that door said the anaemic cabman anxiously Draw the bolts said the man with the black beard and if he comes He showed a revolver in his hand That won t do said... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | whirling flight in the air through the better part of a circle and then dashed straight at Mrs Hall s face Then as swiftly came the sponge from the washstand and then the chair flinging the stranger s coat and trousers carelessly aside and laughing drily in a voice singularly like the stranger s turned itself up with i... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | you in the solution of some mystery and the punishment of some crime No no No crime said Sherlock Holmes laughing Only one of those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have four million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few square miles Amid the action and reaction of so dense... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | assign greater consequence to the clergyman than one has been used to hear given or than I can quite comprehend One does not see much of this influence and importance in society and how can it be acquired where they are so seldom seen themselves How can two sermons a week even supposing them worth hearing supposing the... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | hope and triumph to venture in my new shape as far as to my bedroom I crossed the yard wherein the constellations looked down upon me I could have thought with wonder the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them I stole through the corridors a stranger in my own house and co... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | want to know I told you three days ago I was awaiting a remittance I told you two days ago I wasn t going to await no remittances You can t grumble if your breakfast waits a bit if my bill s been waiting these five days can you The stranger swore briefly but vividly Nar nar from the bar And I d thank you kindly sir if ... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | Louisa for Captain Wentworth nothing could be plainer and where many divisions were necessary or even where they were not they walked side by side nearly as much as the other two In a long strip of meadow land where there was ample space for all they were thus divided forming three distinct parties and to that party of... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | before he was out of bed and he had no sooner seen it and been told the circumstances than he shot out a solemn lip I shall say nothing till I have seen the body said he this may be very serious Have the kindness to wait while I dress And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | for a certain very painful reason that will presently be apparent While these things were going on in the parlour and while Mr Huxter was watching Mr Marvel smoking his pipe against the gate not a dozen yards away were Mr Hall and Teddy Henfrey discussing in a state of cloudy puzzlement the one Iping topic Suddenly the... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | that showed that they were very old hands But now thanks to this lucky chance I think that we have got them right enough But the inspector was mistaken for those criminals were not destined to fall into the hands of justice As we rolled into Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed up from behind... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | We had near fallen foully Jack Ten minutes afterwards they struck into a beaten path Here is a piece of forest that I know not Dick remarked Where goeth me this track Let us even try said Matcham A few yards farther the path came to the top of a ridge and began to go down abruptly into a cup shaped hollow At the foot o... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | under a freshening breeze and let these and other strange memories of the last few days chase one another through my mind What could it all mean A locked enclosure on a lonely island a notorious vivisector and these crippled and distorted men VIII THE CRYING OF THE PUMA Montgomery interrupted my tangle of mystification... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | engine beating again He looked upward and saw two aeroplanes glide shouting far overhead looked back and saw the main body of the fleet opening out and rushing upward and outward saw the one he had struck fall edgewise on and strike like a gigantic knife blade along the wind wheels below it He put down his stern and lo... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | or at any other object animate or inanimate that chanced to afford him a pretty good mark at the moment Well Tommy said this gentleman making a thrust at his friend who parried it dexterously with his slipper what s the news A new appearance that s all replied Mr Folair looking at Nicholas Do the honours Tommy do the h... |
Jane Austen | Emma | hear the hint rose immediately also saying As you are going farther on business sir I will take the opportunity of paying a visit which must be paid some day or other and therefore may as well be paid now I have the honour of being acquainted with a neighbour of yours turning to Emma a lady residing in or near Highbury... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | seemed a good deal surprised when he was only to show it to me It was a large long room with some large maps in it I doubt if I could have felt much stranger if the maps had been real foreign countries and I cast away in the middle of them I felt it was taking a liberty to sit down with my cap in my hand on the corner ... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | of all the fantastic things that had happened during the last few days I saw the ugly little Jew of a landlord vociferating in his rooms I saw his two sons marvelling and the wrinkled old woman s gnarled face as she asked for her cat I experienced again the strange sensation of seeing the cloth disappear and so I came ... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | over the world Friction is inevitable here and there of course but your rule is assured You may rest secure with things in Ostrog s hands Would it be possible for me to be made a sworn aeronaut as you call it forthwith before I sleep said Graham pacing Then I could be at it the very first thing to morrow again It would... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | air and you ve fought a duel Giles Mr Giles who thought this light treatment of the matter an unjust attempt at diminishing his glory answered respectfully that it was not for the like of him to judge about that but he rather thought it was no joke to the opposite party Gad that s true said the doctor Where is he Show ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | the line of the Forth and even Stirling Bridge which is the main pass over that river would be watched with little interest It s a chief principle in military affairs said he to go where ye are least expected Forth is our trouble ye ken the saying Forth bridles the wild Hielandman Well if we seek to creep round about t... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | to go through an operation without an anaesthetic Ah she will feel nothing poor soul The deep sleep has already come on which is the first working of the poison And then I have given her of our Smyrna opium Come sir for already an hour has passed As they stepped out into the darkness a sheet of rain was driven in upon ... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | stick and looking doubtfully at Smike Twelve long miles repeated the landlord Is it a good road inquired Nicholas Very bad said the landlord As of course being a landlord he would say I want to get on observed Nicholas hesitating I scarcely know what to do Don t let me influence you rejoined the landlord I wouldn t go ... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | the scouts are out and by to morrow night there ll be a cry all through the country He hurried off and walked till he almost dropped upon the ground then lay down in a lane and had a long but broken and uneasy sleep He wandered on again irresolute and undecided and oppressed with the fear of another solitary night Sudd... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | gone too far in the way of inexplicable services to pause before I see the end It is well replied my visitor Lanyon you remember your vows what follows is under the seal of our profession And now you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medic... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | let anyone go to see him I ve got tickets and been The image of the real one as the photographs show him this substitute used to be Yellow But he ll get fed up It s a queer world Think of the luck of it The luck of it I expect he ll be sent to Capri It s the best fun for a greener His cough overtook him again Then he b... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle many of which circumstances perhaps those very cases which strike us the most may be precisely such as cannot be brought forward without betraying a confidence or in some respect saying what should not be said Ah cried Capt... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | to see the fierce brutes with foaming mouths and glaring eyes rushing and grasping but forever missing their elusive enemies while arrow after arrow buried itself in their hides One great fellow ran past me roaring with pain with a dozen darts sticking from his chest and ribs In mercy I put a bullet through his skull a... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | they stopped a trollopy looking maidservant seemingly in waiting for them at the door stepped forward and more intent on telling the news than giving them any help immediately began with The Thrush is gone out of harbour please sir and one of the officers has been here to She was interrupted by a fine tall boy of eleve... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | the story book is said to have taken the old lady and seat him on the fire One thing was manifest to both of us and that was that until relief came neither of us could relinquish the fire There we stood well squared up before it shoulder to shoulder and foot to foot with our hands behind us not budging an inch The hors... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | side to the north It was much of the same red as soldiers coats every now and then too there came little sparks and lightnings as though the sun had struck upon bright steel I asked my boatman what it should be and he answered he supposed it was some of the red soldiers coming from Fort William into Appin against the p... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | weak heart during the voyage and that his symptoms were consistent with such a death as was described As to Dr Aloysius Lana he returned to the village from which he had made so dramatic a disappearance and a complete reconciliation was effected between him and the young squire the latter having acknowledged that he ha... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | name of the flaxen haired man came in again as I stood there and I asked him for some clothes He lent me some duck things of his own for those I had worn in the boat had been thrown overboard They were rather loose for me for he was large and long in his limbs He told me casually that the captain was three parts drunk ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | I was as quick as he and jumping upon him the two of us fell off the footboard and rolled in each other s arms down a steep embankment At the bottom I struck my head against a stone and I remembered nothing more When I came to myself I was lying among some low bushes not far from the railroad track and somebody was bat... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | And there was silence between them for a little while Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again The sweet scenes of autumn were for a while put by unless some tender sonnet fraught with the apt analogy of the declining year with declining happiness and the images of youth and hope and spring all gone toget... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | More wise than those who go on until the wheel turns against them he realised his gains and returned to England with them It is only two years since he took up his residence at Baskerville Hall and it is common talk how large were those schemes of reconstruction and improvement which have been interrupted by his death ... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | calmed my spirits and eased my heart There were the old signs the old names over the shops the old people serving in them It appeared so long since I had been a schoolboy there that I wondered the place was so little changed until I reflected how little I was changed myself Strange to say that quiet influence which was... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | you re just thin air I m not one of your ignorant tramps Yes I am thin air You re looking through me What Ain t there any stuff to you _Vox et_ what is it jabber Is it that I am just a human being solid needing food and drink needing covering too But I m invisible You see Invisible Simple idea Invisible What real like ... |
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