Coyoteyellow

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

Horsemidnight

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

Shriekerregal

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

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

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!