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Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | a space he was silent Richard he said what brings you here I know not but I much misdoubt it to be evil Nevertheless for the kindness that was I would not willingly deliver you to harm Ye shall sit all night beside me in the stalls ye shall sit there till my Lord of Shoreby be married and the party gone safe home and i... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | poultry was very much in want of some variety at home The arrival therefore of a sister whom she had always loved and now hoped to retain with her as long as she remained single was highly agreeable and her chief anxiety was lest Mansfield should not satisfy the habits of a young woman who had been mostly used to Londo... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | this The policeman with becoming humility related how he had taken the charge how he had searched Oliver and found nothing on his person and how that was all he knew about it Are there any witnesses inquired Mr Fang None your worship replied the policeman Mr Fang sat silent for some minutes and then turning round to th... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | capable of accommodating so many Anne had a moment s astonishment on the subject herself but it was soon lost in the pleasanter feelings which sprang from the sight of all the ingenious contrivances and nice arrangements of Captain Harville to turn the actual space to the best account to supply the deficiencies of lodg... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | features He walked from the room and he walked on tiptoe The old woman was waiting outside Attend to your mistress when she awakes said Lord Sannox Then he went down to the street The cab was at the door and the driver raised his hand to his hat John said Lord Sannox you will take the doctor home first He will want lea... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | eat and sleep for a night and day they work for a day and at the end of the day they go out again If they have worked well they have a penny or so enough for a theatre or a cheap dancing place or a kinematograph story or a dinner or a bet They wander about after that is spent Begging is prevented by the police of the w... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | month later they would meet on the same boulevard without surprise or embarrassment And in the meantime Dick learned more about his acquaintance on all sides heard of his yacht his chaise and four his brief season of celebrity amid a more confiding population his daughter of whom he loved to whimper in his cups his spo... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | and came forward to inspect the post His face was as pale as linen but his eyes shone in his head like some strange jewel and his voice when he spoke was hoarse and broken with the exultation of battle and success He looked at the rampart which neither friend nor foe could now approach without precaution so fiercely di... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | blankly at the vacant oily sea Then I realised that I was in that little hell of mine again now half swamped and looking back over the gunwale I saw the schooner standing away from me with the red haired captain mocking at me over the taffrail and turning towards the island saw the launch growing smaller as she approac... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | the following Tuesday which would exactly finish Jane s week could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before Her answer therefore was not propitious at least not to Elizabeth s wishes for she was impatient to get home Mrs Bennet sent them word that they could not possibly have the carriage before Tuesday a... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | cartridges I shouted Eureka and smashed the case with joy Then came a doubt I hesitated Then selecting a little side gallery I made my essay I never felt such a disappointment as I did in waiting five ten fifteen minutes for an explosion that never came Of course the things were dummies as I might have guessed from the... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | the coast day after day from New Quay It has only added muscular fatigue to the mental The cause of this unrest was overwork trouble There was something He stopped as if from sheer fatigue He rubbed his forehead with a lean hand He resumed speech like one who talks to himself I am a lone wolf a solitary man wandering t... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | satisfied Elizabeth and when the invitation was given to the two present and promised for the absent Mary was as completely satisfied She was particularly asked to meet Mr Elliot and be introduced to Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret who were fortunately already engaged to come and she could not have received a more gra... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | come here a moment my dear Mrs Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop and presented the form of a short then squeezed up woman with a vixenish countenance My dear said Mr Sowerberry deferentially this is the boy from the workhouse that I told you of Oliver bowed again Dear me said the undertaker s wife h... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | rails to greet him Is any one up Nobody but me replied the child You musn t say you saw me Dick said Oliver I am running away They beat and ill use me Dick and I am going to seek my fortune some long way off I don t know where How pale you are I heard the doctor tell them I was dying replied the child with a faint smil... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | almost boiling I noticed too there was a thin sulphurous scum drifting upon its coiling water Almost immediately came a turn in the ravine and the indistinct blue horizon The nearer sea was flashing the sun from a myriad facets I saw my death before me but I was hot and panting with the warm blood oozing out on my face... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | from any advanced by his companions It is worth remarking that after his own complete disappearance it was found that his private affairs were arranged with a precision which may show that he had a strong premonition of disaster With these essential explanations I will now give the narrative exactly as it stands beginn... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | moving shadows they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours They were both experienced in such affairs and powerful with the spade and they had scarce been twenty minutes at their task before they were rewarded by a dull rattle on the coffin lid At the same moment Macfarlane having hurt his hand upon a stone flun... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | torn down and Dick and the spy were sprawling together in its folds Over and over they rolled grappling for each other s throat and still baffled by the arras and still silent in their deadly fury But Dick was by much the stronger and soon the spy lay prostrate under his knee and with a single stroke of the long poniar... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | as that Fui non sum I was indeed your uncle s man of business but while you imberbis juvenis custode remoto were gallivanting in the west a good deal of water has run under the bridges and if your ears did not sing it was not for lack of being talked about On the very day of your sea disaster Mr Campbell stalked into m... |
Jane Austen | Emma | them you could be in company with Mr Martin again without perceiving him to be a very inferior creature and rather wondering at yourself for having ever thought him at all agreeable before Do not you begin to feel that now Were not you struck I am sure you must have been struck by his awkward look and abrupt manner and... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | and as soon as she would listen quietly could read his list of the families to be invited from whom he calculated with all necessary allowance for the shortness of the notice to collect young people enough to form twelve or fourteen couple and could detail the considerations which had induced him to fix on the 22nd as ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | putting questions it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment You start a question and it s like starting a stone You sit quietly on the top of a hill and away the stone goes starting others and presently some bland old bird the last you would have thought of is knocked on the head in his own back garden a... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | an artist He laughed It s so damned amateurish But the other thing said the sleepless man irritably the other thing No man can keep sane if night after night Have you been walking along this coast alone Yes Silly sort of thing to do If you ll excuse my saying so Alone As you say body fag is no cure for brain fag Who to... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | tired of me Only a little tired of myself replied Estella disengaging her arm and moving to the great chimney piece where she stood looking down at the fire Speak the truth you ingrate cried Miss Havisham passionately striking her stick upon the floor you are tired of me Estella looked at her with perfect composure and... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | Appleyard Yes But who ll shoot me a good shoot It s there the eye comes in and the head between your shoulders Now what might you call a long shoot Bennet Hatch Well said Bennet looking about him it would be a long shoot from here into the forest Ay it would be a longish shoot said the old fellow turning to look over h... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | stations and prowled about inns and no doubt he read the proclamations and realised something of the nature of the campaign against him And as the evening advanced the fields became dotted here and there with groups of three or four men and noisy with the yelping of dogs These men hunters had particular instructions in... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | Just a drop more Janny said Hall Your nerves is all upset They sent Millie across the street through the golden five o clock sunshine to rouse up Mr Sandy Wadgers the blacksmith Mr Hall s compliments and the furniture upstairs was behaving most extraordinary Would Mr Wadgers come round He was a knowing man was Mr Wadge... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | doubt already stopping there No I had been staying with a friend said the doctor There was no possible indication that we intended to go to this hotel Hum Someone seems to be very deeply interested in your movements Out of the envelope he took a half sheet of foolscap paper folded into four This he opened and spread fl... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | know the red colouring matter of blood it can be made white colourless and remain with all the functions it has now Kemp gave a cry of incredulous amazement The Invisible Man rose and began pacing the little study You may well exclaim I remember that night It was late at night in the daytime one was bothered with the g... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | fear of being discovered as a branch cracked or a leaf rustled I pushed back into the bushes It was long before I grew bolder and dared to move freely My only idea for the moment was to get away from these foul beings and I scarcely noticed that I had emerged upon a faint pathway amidst the trees Then suddenly traversi... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | pardon but he had forgotten his gloves and instantly crossing the room to the writing table he drew out a letter from under the scattered paper placed it before Anne with eyes of glowing entreaty fixed on her for a time and hastily collecting his gloves was again out of the room almost before Mrs Musgrove was aware of ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | he stammered It is Selden the man who escaped from Princetown Stapleton turned a ghastly face upon us but by a supreme effort he had overcome his amazement and his disappointment He looked sharply from Holmes to me Dear me What a very shocking affair How did he die He appears to have broken his neck by falling over the... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Munro Oh tut tut sweating rank sweating he cried throwing his fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling passion How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with such attractions and accomplishments My accomplishments sir may be less than you imagine said I A little French a little German music and... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | pair of ravens which croaked loudly from a tor behind us You are an educated man You don t believe such nonsense as that said I What do you think is the cause of so strange a sound Bogs make queer noises sometimes It s the mud settling or the water rising or something No no that was a living voice Well perhaps it was D... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | friendly to matrimonial happiness I exclude extremes of course and a very close resemblance in all those points would be the likeliest way to produce an extreme A counteraction gentle and continual is the best safeguard of manners and conduct Full well could Fanny guess where his thoughts were now Miss Crawford s power... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | the devil only the powers of numbers herbs and planets Ay ay said Pirret tis but white magic gossip There is no sin therein I do assure you But proceed good youth This spell in what should it consist Nay that I will incontinently show you answered Dick Have ye there the ring ye took from my finger Good Now hold it fort... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | ungainly Another point was the forward carriage of the head and the clumsy and inhuman curvature of the spine Even the Ape man lacked that inward sinuous curve of the back which makes the human figure so graceful Most had their shoulders hunched clumsily and their short forearms hung weakly at their sides Few of them w... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | of the Battle of Hastings for instance Don t you think you would attract attention said the Medical Man Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms One might get one s Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato the Very Young Man thought In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little go The Ger... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | the methods of my companion that Dr Mortimer is a successful elderly medical man well esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation Good said Holmes Excellent I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot Why... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | encouragement Mrs Norris offered to contrive his dress Mr Yates assured him that Anhalt s last scene with the Baron admitted a good deal of action and emphasis and Mr Rushworth undertook to count his speeches Perhaps said Tom Fanny may be more disposed to oblige us now Perhaps you may persuade _her_ No she is quite det... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | must apologize I had inadvertently omitted a considerable section of this audience tumult during which the Professor stood with one hand raised and his enormous head nodding sympathetically as if he were bestowing a pontifical blessing upon the crowd I have been selected to move a vote of thanks to Mr Waldron for the v... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | It was worth an effort to preserve it The daughter was of a good amiable disposition but affectionate and warm hearted in her ways so that it was evident that with her fair personal advantages and her little income she would not be allowed to remain single long Now her marriage would mean of course the loss of a hundre... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | see this matter out I do believe upon my conscience there is gold in it Nay if ye get again to drinking all is lost cried Tom Gossip Arblaster ye suffer your fellow to have too much liberty returned Master Pirret Would ye be led by a hired man Fy fy Peace fellow said Arblaster addressing Tom Will ye put your oar in Tru... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | when you were near it the other a gibbet with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate The man was limping on towards this latter as if he were the pirate come to life and come down and going back to hook himself up again It gave me a terrible turn when I thought so and as I saw the cattle lifting their h... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | hotel bill which interests me deeply There s nothing in it I looked at it before said Lestrade Oct 4th rooms 8_s_ breakfast 2_s_ 6_d_ cocktail 1_s_ lunch 2_s_ 6_d_ glass sherry 8_d_ I see nothing in that Very likely not It is most important all the same As to the note it is important also or at least the initials are s... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | Lord Linchmere And now Dr Hamilton if you will return with me to my room I will give you the explanation which my horror of scandal has perhaps caused me to delay too long Come what may you will never have cause to regret your share in this night s work The case may be made clear in a very few words he continued when w... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | now and then faint flashes illuminated the bleak shadows At the first sight it seemed to Graham that an attack upon this isolated white building was in progress but then he perceived that the party of the revolt was not advancing but sheltered amidst the colossal wreckage that encircled this last ragged stronghold of t... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | have one or two matters of importance to look into just at present Your Majesty will of course stay in London for the present Certainly You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Count Von Kramm Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress Pray do so I shall be all anxiety Then as to money Yo... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | more sombre tint but everything that met Mr Nickleby s gaze wore so black and gloomy a hue that he would have been beyond description refreshed by the very reverse of the contrast At length after five years when Mrs Nickleby had presented her husband with a couple of sons and that embarrassed gentleman impressed with t... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | behind One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that although he wore some dark coat such as he had started to town in he had on neither collar nor necktie Convinced that something was amiss with him she rushed down the steps for the house was none other than the opium den in which you found me to nig... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | in common but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them Jekyll who was composite now with the most sensitive apprehensions now with a greedy gusto projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll or but remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the ... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | by white men Besides The negroes are only an instrument But that is not the question I am the Master I mean to be the Master And I tell you these negroes shall not come The people I believe in the people Because you are an anachronism You are a man out of the Past an accident You are Owner perhaps of the world Nominall... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | they assembled in their hundreds round the Blue John Gap As the Castleton Courier said It was useless for our correspondent or for any of the adventurous gentlemen who had come from Matlock Buxton and other parts to offer to descend to explore the cave to the end and to finally test the extraordinary narrative of Dr Ja... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Colonel Forster say Had they no apprehension of anything before the elopement took place They must have seen them together for ever Colonel Forster did own that he had often suspected some partiality especially on Lydia s side but nothing to give him any alarm I am so grieved for him His behaviour was attentive and kin... |
Jane Austen | Emma | name a day said he till I have spoken to some others whom I would wish to meet you Oh leave all that to me Only give me a carte blanche I am Lady Patroness you know It is my party I will bring friends with me I hope you will bring Elton said he but I will not trouble you to give any other invitations Oh now you are loo... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | human cheerfulness he fled like Cain wandered in the night unpiloted careless of whither he went fell and lay and then rose again and wandered further and at last like a transformation scene behold him in the lighted jaws of the city staring at a lamp which had already donned the tilted night cap of the snow It came th... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | me beyond measure Have you good authority for what you say The best possible Lord St Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his forehead What will the Duke say he murmured when he hears that one of the family has been subjected to such humiliation It is the purest accident I cannot allow that there is any hum... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | a temporary confusion occasioned by the unexpected development of strong symptoms of inebriety in the conduct of Mrs Grudden To this act of desertion he was led not only by his own inclinations but by his anxiety on account of Smike who having to sustain the character of the Apothecary had been as yet wholly unable to ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | escaped Sir Daniel convinced Lord Risingham and now fall helpless in the hands of this old drunken sailor and not merely helpless but as his conscience loudly told him when it was too late actually guilty actually the bankrupt debtor of the man whose ship he had stolen and lost Bring me him back into the alehouse till ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | No no said the old man don t repulse your father Dick when he has come here to save you Don t repulse me my boy Perhaps I have not been kind to you not quite considerate too harsh my boy it was not for want of love Think of old times I was kind to you then was I not When you were a child and your mother was with us Mr ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | light Within we were seated round the cane table on which lay a sealed envelope Inscribed upon it in the jagged handwriting of Professor Challenger were the words Instructions to Lord John Roxton and party To be opened at Manaos upon July 15th at 12 o clock precisely Lord John had placed his watch upon the table beside... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good nature It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready made from the hands of opportunity and that was the lawyer s way His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest his affections like ivy were the growth of time ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | it matters little to me but I should wish to spare Alice the shock And now I will make the thing clear to you it has been a long time in the acting but will not take me long to tell You didn t know this dead man McCarthy He was a devil incarnate I tell you that God keep you out of the clutches of such a man as he His g... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | for the first time since the accident called up a smile to the faces of the crowd CHAPTER V EARL RISINGHAM Earl Risingham although by far the most important person then in Shoreby was poorly lodged in the house of a private gentleman upon the extreme outskirts of the town Nothing but the armed men at the doors and the ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | a hunting dog upon the scent inquired his way of every tree and studied out their path as though he were conning a ship among dangers About a mile into the forest they came to a place where several ways met under a grove of lofty and contorted oaks Even in the narrow horizon of the falling snow it was a spot that could... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | still more melancholy for sunshine appeared to her a totally different thing in a town and in the country Here its power was only a glare a stifling sickly glare serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept There was neither health nor gaiety in sunshine in a town She sat in a blaze of o... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | give me your help in putting it together There are but three seams you may do them in a trice It would be lucky for me if I had nothing but the executive part to do _You_ are best off I can tell you but if nobody did more than _you_ we should not get on very fast Fanny took the work very quietly without attempting any ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | you have a morbid sense of duty particularly for others strive against it my dear strive against it And as for the pigments well I ll use them some of these days and to show that I m in earnest I ll get Dick here to prepare a canvas Dick was put to this menial task forthwith the Admiral not even watching how he did but... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | that thus transpires through and transfigures its clay continent The last I think for O my poor old Harry Jekyll if ever I read Satan s signature upon a face it is on that of your new friend Round the corner from the by street there was a square of ancient handsome houses now for the most part decayed from their high e... |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | whether they didn t smell fire at the present moment My narrative finished and their questions exhausted I then produced Miss Havisham s authority to receive the nine hundred pounds for Herbert Mr Jaggers s eyes retired a little deeper into his head when I handed him the tablets but he presently handed them over to Wem... |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | with his preconceptions of nobility in their status and manners had jarred upon him and it was remarkable to him how soon that strangeness and the faint hostility that arose from it disappeared how soon he came to appreciate the true perspective of his position and see the old Victorian days remote and quaint He found ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | I am still so confused that I can hardly think clearly of the facts of the present or of the chances of the future To my astounded senses the one seems most terrible and the other as black as night No men have ever found themselves in a worse position nor is there any use in disclosing to you our exact geographical sit... |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | of the workroom to join her mother at the street corner and walk home the more sadly from having to disguise her real feelings and feign to participate in all the sanguine visions of her companion Bless my soul Kate said Mrs Nickleby I ve been thinking all day what a delightful thing it would be for Madame Mantalini to... |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | yes Thousands millions All the larvae all the little nauplii and tornarias all the microscopic things the jelly fish In the sea there are more things invisible than visible I never thought of that before And in the ponds too All those little pond life things specks of colourless translucent jelly But in air No It can t... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | know where gurglings taking place in his throat stoppages in his nose and his mouth open like a post office He was so much worse in reality than in my distempered fancy that afterwards I was attracted to him in very repulsion and could not help wandering in and out every half hour or so and taking another look at him S... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | young she left me my dear little Alice Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down the right path as nothing else had ever done In a word I turned over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past All was going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me I had gone up to town about an investmen... |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | sunlight as though there was no such thing in nature as the night And then I thought once more of the meat that I had seen I felt assured now of what it was and from the bottom of my heart I pitied this last feeble rill from the great flood of humanity Clearly at some time in the Long Ago of human decay the Morlocks fo... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | with Anne It would be well for the eldest sister if she were equally satisfied with her situation for a change is not very probable there She had soon the mortification of seeing Mr Elliot withdraw and no one of proper condition has since presented himself to raise even the unfounded hopes which sunk with him The news ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | certainly a very fine morning for a walk He quickened his pace until we had decreased the distance which divided us by about half Then still keeping a hundred yards behind we followed into Oxford Street and so down Regent Street Once our friends stopped and stared into a shop window upon which Holmes did the same An in... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | it back again Would that be the right part for me to play Whatever I do you can see for yourself it must be hard upon a man of any pride It s rather hard on me too Mr Balfour said Cluny and ye give me very much the look of a man that has entrapped poor people to their hurt I wouldnae have my friends come to any house o... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | the hollow on the left but in order to gain that after pursuing the track Oliver had pointed out the men must have made a circuit of open ground which it was impossible they could have accomplished in so short a time A thick wood skirted the meadow land in another direction but they could not have gained that covert fo... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | dearest Mary who make much of a little are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves Well done sister I honour your _esprit_ _du_ _corps_ When I am a wife I mean to be just as staunch myself and I wish my friends in general would be so too It would save me many a heartache You are as bad as your brother Ma... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | laid the box of matches and the stump of a candle Then he turned down the lamp and we were left in darkness How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil I could not hear a sound not even the drawing of a breath and yet I knew that my companion sat open eyed within a few feet of me in the same state of nervous tension in... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | better and for Sir Daniel here lies his body But for the priest if I might anywise prevail I would have you let him go A flash came into the eyes of Ellis Duckworth Nay he said the devil is still strong within me But be at rest the Black Arrow flieth nevermore the fellowship is broken They that still live shall come to... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | needed no expert eye to tell that the man was still drunk Hullo said he stupidly and then with a light coming into his eyes Why it s Mister Mister Prendick said I Prendick be damned said he Shut up that s your name Mister Shut up It was no good answering the brute but I certainly did not expect his next move He held ou... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | door Giles popped out his nightcap again preparatory to making some reply when he was suddenly pulled back by a young gentleman who occupied the other corner of the chaise and who eagerly demanded what was the news In a word cried the gentleman Better or worse Better much better replied Oliver hastily Thank Heaven excl... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | had trod and the railings in which he had rattled his clachan as he went to school and all those thousand and one nameless particulars which the eye sees without noting which the memory keeps indeed yet without knowing and which taken one with another build up for us the aspect of the place that we call home all these ... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Under such circumstances however he was not likely to be proof against the temptation of immediate relief They met several times for there was much to be discussed Wickham of course wanted more than he could get but at length was reduced to be reasonable Everything being settled between _them_ Mr Darcy s next step was ... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Jane had no intelligence to give The sanguine hope of good however which the benevolence of her heart suggested had not yet deserted her she still expected that it would all end well and that every morning would bring some letter either from Lydia or her father to explain their proceedings and perhaps announce their ma... |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | all his heart and will love you as nearly for ever as possible If any man ever loved a woman for ever I think Henry will do as much for you Fanny could not avoid a faint smile but had nothing to say I cannot imagine Henry ever to have been happier continued Mary presently than when he had succeeded in getting your brot... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground the waist of the coat below his haunches and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders Strange to relate this ludicrous accoutrement was far from moving me to laughter Rather as there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that n... |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | away to that box and drink it there and make haste for they ll want you to mind the shop D ye hear D ye hear Work us said Noah Claypole Lor Noah said Charlotte what a rum creature you are Why don t you let the boy alone Let him alone said Noah Why everybody lets him alone enough for the matter of that Neither his fathe... |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | I really believe she was motionless and unable for the moment to dart out according to custom I seized the opportunity to inform her who it was and that the gentleman now coming near the offender for the way up was very steep and he had dropped behind was Mr Murdstone himself I don t care who it is cried my aunt still ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | known him to fail in the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler photograph but when I looked back to the weird business of the Sign of Four and the extraordinary circumstances connected with the Study in Scarlet I felt that it would be a strange tangle indeed which he could not unravel I left him then still... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | prefer not to explain But this is part of your duties My room is close by and you can return to your own before the servant calls you in the morning But why I asked Because I am nervous of being alone said he That s the reason since you must have a reason It seemed rank lunacy but the argument of those twenty pounds wo... |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | when anything was the matter was indisposed and foreseeing that she should not have a day s health all the autumn entreated or rather required her for it was hardly entreaty to come to Uppercross Cottage and bear her company as long as she should want her instead of going to Bath I cannot possibly do without Anne was M... |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | ignorant of it Has it not been industriously circulated by yourselves Do you not know that such a report is spread abroad I never heard that it was And can you likewise declare that there is no _foundation_ for it I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship _You_ may ask questions which _I_ shall not... |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | shouting above me I rubbed my eyes and lay listening to the noise doubtful for a little while of my whereabouts Then came a sudden pattering of bare feet the sound of heavy objects being thrown about a violent creaking and the rattling of chains I heard the swish of the water as the ship was suddenly brought round and ... |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | should have been kept and at that his excitement burst out so that it was painful to witness He struck the lad repeatedly Are you gone gyte he cried Do you wish to hang your father and forgetful of my presence carried on at him a long time together in the Gaelic the young man answering nothing only the wife at the name... |
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