Ravensheer

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.

Flyrain

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour.

Kickercedar

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

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!

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

Near it in the field, I remember, were three faint points of light, three telescopic stars infinitely remote, and all around it was the unfathomable darkness of empty space.