Wolverineivory

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

Gamblercake

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

Razorcherry

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. Voicedesert.

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.

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

Then followed a battle of looks between them, but the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.