Razornight

He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimoni- al grievances, but simply because he forgot him.

Skinneriridescent

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Deathswift

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

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

But what sort of language would we have the world speak, if we were told the miracle of Babel was presently to be reversed?

The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman light–house, a three–legged thing erect on a mud–flat, shone strongly.