Samuraiquick

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.

Hornripple

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

Handpink

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. Jesterprism.

I protest, even warmly, that neither he nor his sorrows were in my intention.

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

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.

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.

And with that he went off to see my father, taking me with him by the arm.