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Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | a committee of the House of Commons that there existed a combination to keep up the price of muffins and to give the bellmen a monopoly he would prove it by bellmen at the bar of that House and he would also prove that these men corresponded with each other by secret words and signs as Snooks Walker Ferguson Is Murphy right and many others It was this melancholy state of things that the Company proposed to correct firstly by prohibiting under heavy penalties all private muffin trading of every description secondly by themselves supplying the public generally and the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | his instruments now by the issue of some hours of battle at which many of them had not been present they had all become punishable traitors to the State outside the buckler of the law a shrunken company in a poor fortress that was hardly tenable and exposed upon all sides to the just resentment of their victims Nor had there been lacking grisly advertisements of what they might expect At different periods of the evening and the night no fewer than seven riderless horses had come neighing in terror to the gate Two were from Selden s troop five |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | I am of no more use at home than you are If I were to shut myself up for ever with the child I should not be able to persuade him to do anything he did not like Anne will stay Anne undertakes to stay at home and take care of him It is Anne s own proposal and so I shall go with you which will be a great deal better for I have not dined at the other house since Tuesday This is very kind of Anne was her husband s answer and I should be very glad |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | walk remained written on John s memory each emphasised by the touch of that light hand on his arm and behind all these aspects of the nocturnal city he saw in his mind s eye a picture of the lighted drawing room at home where he had sat talking with Flora and his father from the other end had looked on with a kind and ironical smile John had read the significance of that smile which might have escaped a stranger Mr Nicholson had remarked his son s entanglement with satisfaction tinged by humour and his smile if it still |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | face and forehead were deeper and he had every appearance of having toiled and wandered through all varieties of weather but he looked very strong and like a man upheld by steadfastness of purpose whom nothing could tire out He shook the snow from his hat and clothes and brushed it away from his face while I was inwardly making these remarks As he sat down opposite to me at a table with his back to the door by which we had entered he put out his rough hand again and grasped mine warmly I ll tell you Mas r |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | but with a kindly eye he waved me to an armchair threw across his case of cigars and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion Wedlock suits you he remarked I think Watson that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you Seven I answered Indeed I should have thought a little more Just a trifle more I fancy Watson And in practice again I observe You did not tell me that you intended to go into |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | she s got a living body And how should she be up there without coming through the door or in at the window and up the stairs I don t know how she s there says Arthur shivering dreadful with the horrors but she s standing in the corner at the foot of the bed awful mad And over where her heart s broke _you_ broke it there s drops of blood Compeyson spoke hardy but he was always a coward Go up alonger this drivelling sick man he says to his wife and Magwitch lend her a hand will |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | her face Her eyes were bright with unshed tears He felt a rush of emotion For a moment he forgot this city he forgot the race and all those vague remote voices in the immediate humanity of her beauty But what am I to do he said with his eyes upon her Rule she answered bending towards him and speaking in a low tone Rule the world as it has never been ruled for the good and happiness of men For you might rule it you could rule it The people are stirring All over the world the people are |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | to solve this one last difficulty Sometimes I would give way to wild outbursts of rage and hack and splinter some unlucky tree in my intolerable vexation But I could think of nothing And then came a day a wonderful day which I spent in ecstasy I saw a sail to the southwest a small sail like that of a little schooner and forthwith I lit a great pile of brushwood and stood by it in the heat of it and the heat of the midday sun watching All day I watched that sail eating or drinking nothing so that |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | an attempt to crawl behind the legs of the fighting men The struggle blundered round the edge of the door The voice of the Invisible Man was heard for the first time yelling out sharply as the policeman trod on his foot Then he cried out passionately and his fists flew round like flails The cabman suddenly whooped and doubled up kicked under the diaphragm The door into the bar parlour from the kitchen slammed and covered Mr Marvel s retreat The men in the kitchen found themselves clutching at and struggling with empty air Where s he gone cried |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | put it up and opened cautiously without showing himself A familiar voice hailed him It was Adye Your servant s been assaulted Kemp he said round the door What exclaimed Kemp Had that note of yours taken away from her He s close about here Let me in Kemp released the chain and Adye entered through as narrow an opening as possible He stood in the hall looking with infinite relief at Kemp refastening the door Note was snatched out of her hand Scared her horribly She s down at the station Hysterics He s close here What was it |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | company to morrow evening I should not be afraid of the result We bespeak your indulgence you understand as young performers we bespeak your indulgence My indulgence shall be given sir replied Sir Thomas gravely but without any other rehearsal And with a relenting smile he added I come home to be happy and indulgent Then turning away towards any or all of the rest he tranquilly said Mr and Miss Crawford were mentioned in my last letters from Mansfield Do you find them agreeable acquaintance Tom was the only one at all ready with an answer but he being |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance and that it was possible that we might spend the night there A moment later we were out on the dark road a chill wind blowing in our faces and one yellow light twinkling in front of us through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand There was little difficulty in entering the grounds for unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall Making our way among the trees we reached the lawn crossed it and were about to enter through the window when out from a clump |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | and the house is redd up and the gear disposed of all which Davie hath been done give my boy this letter into his hand and start him off to the house of Shaws not far from Cramond That is the place I came from he said and it s where it befits that my boy should return He is a steady lad your father said and a canny goer and I doubt not he will come safe and be well lived where he goes The house of Shaws I cried What had my poor father to do with the |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | broken stone Thence there extended a long straight passage cut in the solid rock I am no geologist but the lining of this corridor was certainly of some harder material than limestone for there were points where I could actually see the tool marks which the old miners had left in their excavation as fresh as if they had been done yesterday Down this strange old world corridor I stumbled my feeble flame throwing a dim circle of light around me which made the shadows beyond the more threatening and obscure Finally I came to a spot where the Roman |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | she began to take in my presence Cheer up sir said Mrs Crupp I can t abear to see you so sir I m a mother myself I did not quite perceive the application of this fact to myself but I smiled on Mrs Crupp as benignly as was in my power Come sir said Mrs Crupp Excuse me I know what it is sir There s a lady in the case Mrs Crupp I returned reddening Oh bless you Keep a good heart sir said Mrs Crupp nodding encouragement Never say die sir If She don t smile upon |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | nuts among others Some rough vessels of lava and wood stood about the floor and one on a rough stool There was no fire In the darkest corner of the hut sat a shapeless mass of darkness that grunted Hey as I came in and my Ape man stood in the dim light of the doorway and held out a split cocoa nut to me as I crawled into the other corner and squatted down I took it and began gnawing it as serenely as possible in spite of a certain trepidation and the nearly intolerable closeness of the den |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | at the Parsonage more than once during the time but Mr Darcy they had seen only at church The invitation was accepted of course and at a proper hour they joined the party in Lady Catherine s drawing room Her ladyship received them civilly but it was plain that their company was by no means so acceptable as when she could get nobody else and she was in fact almost engrossed by her nephews speaking to them especially to Darcy much more than to any other person in the room Colonel Fitzwilliam seemed really glad to see them anything was |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | of his chair and picked it up and fitted it to the same exact spot As if it were an absolute point of good breeding that it should tumble off again soon When did you come to town Mr Gargery Were it yesterday afternoon said Joe after coughing behind his hand as if he had had time to catch the whooping cough since he came No it were not Yes it were Yes It were yesterday afternoon with an appearance of mingled wisdom relief and strict impartiality Have you seen anything of London yet Why yes Sir said Joe me |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | pattens she made no complaint No these were noises which belonged to the winter pleasures her spirits rose under their influence and like Mrs Musgrove she was feeling though not saying that after being long in the country nothing could be so good for her as a little quiet cheerfulness Anne did not share these feelings She persisted in a very determined though very silent disinclination for Bath caught the first dim view of the extensive buildings smoking in rain without any wish of seeing them better felt their progress through the streets to be however disagreeable yet too rapid |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | the object of her happiest thoughts it was her best consolation for all the uncomfortable hours which the discontentedness of her mother and Kitty made inevitable and could she have included Jane in the scheme every part of it would have been perfect But it is fortunate thought she that I have something to wish for Were the whole arrangement complete my disappointment would be certain But here by carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister s absence I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realised A scheme of which every part |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | make a day s holiday together and that little Em ly and I were to accompany them I had but a broken sleep the night before in anticipation of the pleasure of a whole day with Em ly We were all astir betimes in the morning and while we were yet at breakfast Mr Barkis appeared in the distance driving a chaise cart towards the object of his affections Peggotty was dressed as usual in her neat and quiet mourning but Mr Barkis bloomed in a new blue coat of which the tailor had given him such good measure that |
Jane Austen | Emma | your intimacy with the sisters to be acquainted with the wife who will probably be some mere farmer s daughter without education To be sure Yes Not that I think Mr Martin would ever marry any body but what had had some education and been very well brought up However I do not mean to set up my opinion against yours and I am sure I shall not wish for the acquaintance of his wife I shall always have a great regard for the Miss Martins especially Elizabeth and should be very sorry to give them up for they are |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | first I was puzzled by all these strange fruits and by the strange flowers I saw but later I began to perceive their import However I am telling you of my fruit dinner in the distant future now So soon as my appetite was a little checked I determined to make a resolute attempt to learn the speech of these new men of mine Clearly that was the next thing to do The fruits seemed a convenient thing to begin upon and holding one of these up I began a series of interrogative sounds and gestures I had some considerable |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | So gently and carefully was it done that the movement was almost imperceptible Then as we breathlessly watched it a white thin hand appeared at the opening pushing back the painted lid then another hand and finally a face a face which was familiar to us both that of Professor Andreas Stealthily he slunk out of the mummy case like a fox stealing from its burrow his head turning incessantly to left and to right stepping then pausing then stepping again the very image of craft and of caution Once some sound in the street struck him motionless and he |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | in the course of the preceding month there was no time to be lost in making every dependent arrangement Lady Russell convinced that Anne would not be allowed to be of any use or any importance in the choice of the house which they were going to secure was very unwilling to have her hurried away so soon and wanted to make it possible for her to stay behind till she might convey her to Bath herself after Christmas but having engagements of her own which must take her from Kellynch for several weeks she was unable to give the |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Folair as he did so who knitting his brow and pursing up his mouth with great dignity was sitting with his eyes steadily fixed upon the ceiling It was directed to blank Johnson Esq by favour of Augustus Folair Esq and the astonishment of Nicholas was in no degree lessened when he found it to be couched in the following laconic terms Mr Lenville presents his kind regards to Mr Johnson and will feel obliged if he will inform him at what hour tomorrow morning it will be most convenient to him to meet Mr L at the Theatre for |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | _table_ looking round it certainly will not be taken Edmund said no more If _any_ part could tempt _you_ to act I suppose it would be Anhalt observed the lady archly after a short pause for he is a clergyman you know _That_ circumstance would by no means tempt me he replied for I should be sorry to make the character ridiculous by bad acting It must be very difficult to keep Anhalt from appearing a formal solemn lecturer and the man who chuses the profession itself is perhaps one of the last who would wish to represent it on |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | India said he as he took it up Pondicherry postmark What can this be Opening it hurriedly out there jumped five little dried orange pips which pattered down upon his plate I began to laugh at this but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight of his face His lip had fallen his eyes were protruding his skin the colour of putty and he glared at the envelope which he still held in his trembling hand K K K he shrieked and then My God my God my sins have overtaken me What is it uncle I |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | for the defence Morton was high spirited and impetuous like his sister but he was respected and liked by everyone and his frank and honest nature seemed to be incapable of such a crime His own explanation was that he was anxious to have a conversation with Dr Lana about some urgent family matters from first to last he refused even to mention the name of his sister He did not attempt to deny that this conversation would probably have been of an unpleasant nature He had heard from a patient that the doctor was out and he therefore waited |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | body done to death and of the blood stained iron rod flung among the nettles The abandonment of the rod by Griffin suggests that in the emotional excitement of the affair the purpose for which he took it if he had a purpose was abandoned He was certainly an intensely egotistical and unfeeling man but the sight of his victim his first victim bloody and pitiful at his feet may have released some long pent fountain of remorse which for a time may have flooded whatever scheme of action he had contrived After the murder of Mr Wicksteed he would |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind Then the effect passed as it had come An uncouth black figure of a man a figure of no particular import hung over the taffrail against the starlight and I found Montgomery was speaking to me I m thinking of turning in then said he if you ve had enough of this I answered him incongruously We went below and he wished me good night at the door of my cabin That night I had some very |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | you have a morbid sense of duty particularly for others strive against it my dear strive against it And as for the pigments well I ll use them some of these days and to show that I m in earnest I ll get Dick here to prepare a canvas Dick was put to this menial task forthwith the Admiral not even watching how he did but quite occupied with another grog and a pleasant vein of talk A little after Esther arose and making some pretext good or bad went off to bed Dick was left hobbled by the canvas |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | of the machine Then came one hand upon me and then another Then I had simply to fight against their persistent fingers for my levers and at the same time feel for the studs over which these fitted One indeed they almost got away from me As it slipped from my hand I had to butt in the dark with my head I could hear the Morlock s skull ring to recover it It was a nearer thing than the fight in the forest I think this last scramble But at last the lever was fixed and pulled over The |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | THAT There was one little ceremony peculiar to the day both the matter and manner of which made a very strong impression upon Nicholas The cloth having been removed and the decanters sent round for the first time a profound silence succeeded and in the cheerful faces of the brothers there appeared an expression not of absolute melancholy but of quiet thoughtfulness very unusual at a festive table As Nicholas struck by this sudden alteration was wondering what it could portend the brothers rose together and the one at the top of the table leaning forward towards the other and |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | a corner to get out of hearing How many children are there and what has my brother Ned given Trimmers There are six children replied the gentleman and your brother has given us twenty pounds My brother Ned is a good fellow and you re a good fellow too Trimmers said the old man shaking him by both hands with trembling eagerness Put me down for another twenty or stop a minute stop a minute We mustn t look ostentatious put me down ten pound and Tim Linkinwater ten pound A cheque for twenty pound for Mr Trimmers Tim God |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | laboratory however was empty I stared for a minute at the Time Machine and put out my hand and touched the lever At that the squat substantial looking mass swayed like a bough shaken by the wind Its instability startled me extremely and I had a queer reminiscence of the childish days when I used to be forbidden to meddle I came back through the corridor The Time Traveller met me in the smoking room He was coming from the house He had a small camera under one arm and a knapsack under the other He laughed when he saw |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | small flying machines driving upward in the southern sky No doubt they were looking for the coming aeroplanes That presently the thing to do now was to start Things were being shouted at him questions warnings They bothered him He wanted to think about the machine to recall every item of his previous experience He waved the people from him saw the man in yellow dropping off through the ribs saw the crowd cleft down the line of the girders by his gesture For a moment he was motionless staring at the levers the wheel by which the engine shifted |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | or eight square miles 2 It was volcanic in origin and was now fringed on three sides by coral reefs some fumaroles to the northward and a hot spring were the only vestiges of the forces that had long since originated it Now and then a faint quiver of earthquake would be sensible and sometimes the ascent of the spire of smoke would be rendered tumultuous by gusts of steam but that was all The population of the island Montgomery informed me now numbered rather more than sixty of these strange creations of Moreau s art not counting the smaller |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | will soon have to be faced I absolutely refuse to leave however until we have made at least a superficial examination of this country and are able to take back with us something in the nature of a chart Professor Summerlee gave a snort of impatience We have spent two long days in exploration said he and we are no wiser as to the actual geography of the place than when we started It is clear that it is all thickly wooded and it would take months to penetrate it and to learn the relations of one part to another |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | Henry Russell s widow indeed has no honours to distinguish her arms but still it is a handsome equipage and no doubt is well known to convey a Miss Elliot A widow Mrs Smith lodging in Westgate Buildings A poor widow barely able to live between thirty and forty a mere Mrs Smith an every day Mrs Smith of all people and all names in the world to be the chosen friend of Miss Anne Elliot and to be preferred by her to her own family connections among the nobility of England and Ireland Mrs Smith Such a name Mrs |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | stepped accidentally behind the glass and encountered the lively young lady s eye just at the very moment when she kissed the old lord upon which the young lady in a pouting manner murmured something about an old thing and great impertinence and finished by darting a look of displeasure at Miss Knag and smiling contemptuously Madame Mantalini said the young lady Ma am said Madame Mantalini Pray have up that pretty young creature we saw yesterday Oh yes do said the sister Of all things in the world Madame Mantalini said the lord s intended throwing herself languidly on |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | a dark wild part it is Shall I tell you Or would it worry you just now Tell me by all means Every word Herbert bent forward to look at me more nearly as if my reply had been rather more hurried or more eager than he could quite account for Your head is cool he said touching it Quite said I Tell me what Provis said my dear Herbert It seems said Herbert there s a bandage off most charmingly and now comes the cool one makes you shrink at first my poor dear fellow don t it but |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | which come to me are I am the last court of appeal And yet I question sir whether in all your experience you have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of events than those which have happened in my own family You fill me with interest said Holmes Pray give us the essential facts from the commencement and I can afterwards question you as to those details which seem to me to be most important The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out towards the blaze My name said he is John |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | was arranged then for the Friday Was it to be in church Yes sir but very quietly It was to be at St Saviour s near King s Cross and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St Pancras Hotel Hosmer came for us in a hansom but as there were two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a four wheeler which happened to be the only other cab in the street We got to the church first and when the four wheeler drove up we waited for him to step out but |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | morning early when there would be the farther advantage of sending an account of Louisa s night Captain Wentworth now hurried off to get everything ready on his part and to be soon followed by the two ladies When the plan was made known to Mary however there was an end of all peace in it She was so wretched and so vehement complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne Anne who was nothing to Louisa while she was her sister and had the best right to stay in Henrietta s stead Why |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | the provinces she oughtn t What do you mean asked the manager I mean to say replied the other warmly that she is too good for country boards and that she ought to be in one of the large houses in London or nowhere and I tell you more without mincing the matter that if it wasn t for envy and jealousy in some quarter that you know of she would be Perhaps you ll introduce me here Mr Crummles Mr Folair said the manager presenting him to Nicholas Happy to know you sir Mr Folair touched the brim of |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | bill between the bars turn his sightless head towards his old master and at that moment it would be very difficult to determine which of the two was the happier the bird or Tim Linkinwater Nor was this all Everything gave back besides some reflection of the kindly spirit of the brothers The warehousemen and porters were such sturdy jolly fellows that it was a treat to see them Among the shipping announcements and steam packet lists which decorated the counting house wall were designs for almshouses statements of charities and plans for new hospitals A blunderbuss and two swords |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | purpose and horrible activity of these monstrous creatures One after another they went down and there were not half a dozen surviving by the time my companion and I could come to their help But our aid was of little avail and only involved us in the same peril At the range of a couple of hundred yards we emptied our magazines firing bullet after bullet into the beasts but with no more effect than if we were pelting them with pellets of paper Their slow reptilian natures cared nothing for wounds and the springs of their lives with no |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | He opened the case and taking out the diadem he laid it upon the table It was a magnificent specimen of the jeweller s art and the thirty six stones were the finest that I have ever seen At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge where a corner holding three gems had been torn away Now Mr Holder said Holmes here is the corner which corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost Might I beg that you will break it off The banker recoiled in horror I should not dream of trying said he Then |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | at that distance one could observe how from time to time they twinkled or were obscured as someone passed before them What would I not have given to be able to crawl up to them to peep in and to take back some word to my comrades as to the appearance and character of the race who lived in so strange a place It was out of the question for the moment and yet surely we could not leave the plateau until we had some definite knowledge upon the point Lake Gladys my own lake lay like a sheet of |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | decided confident temper could not endure She had given him up to oblige others It had been the effect of over persuasion It had been weakness and timidity He had been most warmly attached to her and had never seen a woman since whom he thought her equal but except from some natural sensation of curiosity he had no desire of meeting her again Her power with him was gone for ever It was now his object to marry He was rich and being turned on shore fully intended to settle as soon as he could be properly tempted actually |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | being the means of bringing persons of obscure birth into undue distinction and raising men to honours which their fathers and grandfathers never dreamt of and secondly as it cuts up a man s youth and vigour most horribly a sailor grows old sooner than any other man I have observed it all my life A man is in greater danger in the navy of being insulted by the rise of one whose father his father might have disdained to speak to and of becoming prematurely an object of disgust himself than in any other line One day last spring |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | so totally independent of everyone She represented to her sister as forcibly as possible what she felt on the subject and had soon the pleasure of seeing its happy effect Jane s temper was not desponding and she was gradually led to hope though the diffidence of affection sometimes overcame the hope that Bingley would return to Netherfield and answer every wish of her heart They agreed that Mrs Bennet should only hear of the departure of the family without being alarmed on the score of the gentleman s conduct but even this partial communication gave her a great deal |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | that So that made the adventure more alluring did it Well it did certainly give a spice to it Don t you think so I tell you that I am very ignorant about these things My dear fellow you can remember that the apple you stole from your neighbour s tree was always sweeter than that which fell from your own And then I found that she cared for me What at once Oh no it took about three months of sapping and mining But at last I won her over She understood that my judicial separation from my wife |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | put in a word but the moment he essayed to do so Mr Cheeryble laid his hand softly upon his arm and pointed to a chair The subject is at an end for the present said the old gentleman wiping his face Don t revive it by a single word I am going to speak upon another subject a confidential subject Mr Nickleby We must be cool again we must be cool After two or three turns across the room he resumed his seat and drawing his chair nearer to that on which Nicholas was seated said I am about |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | said the Time Traveller and to the Psychologist You think _You_ can explain that It s presentation below the threshold you know diluted presentation Of course said the Psychologist and reassured us That s a simple point of psychology I should have thought of it It s plain enough and helps the paradox delightfully We cannot see it nor can we appreciate this machine any more than we can the spoke of a wheel spinning or a bullet flying through the air If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred times faster than we are if it |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | him he took heart of grace and with a pretty steady voice addressed them My masters he began are ye gone clean foolish Here hath Heaven put into your hands as pretty an occasion to grow rich as ever shipman had such as ye might make thirty over sea adventures and not find again and by the mass what do ye Beat me nay so would an angry child But for long headed tarry Johns that fear not fire nor water and that love gold as they love beef methinks ye are not wise Ay said Tom now y are |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | the places to which they belonged were locked or that they were of any use except as a plaything for Jip but Dora was pleased and that pleased me She was quite satisfied that a good deal was effected by this make belief of housekeeping and was as merry as if we had been keeping a baby house for a joke So we went on Dora was hardly less affectionate to my aunt than to me and often told her of the time when she was afraid she was a cross old thing I never saw my aunt unbend more |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | laughed so that we could hardly help him At last we exposed that monstrous torso fifty four inches by the tailor s tape His body was all matted with black hair out of which jungle we picked the wandering tick before it had bitten him But the bushes round were full of the horrible pests and it was clear that we must shift our camp But first of all it was necessary to make our arrangements with the faithful negro who appeared presently on the pinnacle with a number of tins of cocoa and biscuits which he tossed over to |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | a corner very quietly without uttering a sound and winking his very ill looking eyes twenty times in a minute appeared to occupy himself in taking a survey of the apartment What are you up to Ill treating the boys you covetous avaricious in sa ti a ble old fence said the man seating himself deliberately I wonder they don t murder you I would if I was them If I d been your prentice I d have done it long ago and no I couldn t have sold you afterwards for you re fit for nothing but keeping as |
Jane Austen | Emma | could not but suppose it to be a match that every body who knew them must think of That Mr and Mrs Weston did think of it she was very strongly persuaded and though not meaning to be induced by him or by any body else to give up a situation which she believed more replete with good than any she could change it for she had a great curiosity to see him a decided intention of finding him pleasant of being liked by him to a certain degree and a sort of pleasure in the idea of their being |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | it in the right way It was seen by some farmer and he told the miller and the miller told the butcher and the butcher s son in law left word at the shop I am very glad that you have heard of it by whatever means and hope there will be no further delay I am to have it to morrow but how do you think it is to be conveyed Not by a wagon or cart oh no nothing of that kind could be hired in the village I might as well have asked for porters and a |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | clamor which filled the air and the mephitic horrible musty odor which turned us sick But above perched each upon its own stone tall gray and withered more like dead and dried specimens than actual living creatures sat the horrible males absolutely motionless save for the rolling of their red eyes or an occasional snap of their rat trap beaks as a dragon fly went past them Their huge membranous wings were closed by folding their fore arms so that they sat like gigantic old women wrapped in hideous web colored shawls and with their ferocious heads protruding above them |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | therefrom Your people call for you Come where My people To the hall about the markets Your life is in danger here We have spies We learned but just in time The Council has decided this very day either to drug or kill you And everything is ready The people are drilled the Wind Vane police the engineers and half the way gearers are with us We have the halls crowded shouting The whole city shouts against the Council We have arms He wiped the blood with his hand Your life here is not worth But why arms The people |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | china and metal for the table had not been cleared yet Sherlock Holmes had been silent all the morning dipping continuously into the advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last having apparently given up his search he had emerged in no very sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings At the same time he remarked after a pause during which he had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism for out of these cases which you have been so kind |
Jane Austen | Emma | with the manner in which he seconded a sudden wish of hers to have Harriet s picture Did you ever have your likeness taken Harriet said she did you ever sit for your picture Harriet was on the point of leaving the room and only stopt to say with a very interesting naivete Oh dear no never No sooner was she out of sight than Emma exclaimed What an exquisite possession a good picture of her would be I would give any money for it I almost long to attempt her likeness myself You do not know it I dare |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | of the general inversion of the new age He bowed condescendingly to his first introduction It was evident that subtle distinctions of class prevailed even in this assembly that only to a small proportion of the guests to an inner group did Lincoln consider it appropriate to introduce him This first introduction was the Master Aeronaut a man whose sun tanned face contrasted oddly with the delicate complexions about him Just at present his critical defection from the Council made him a very important person indeed His manner contrasted very favourably according to Graham s ideas with the general bearing |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | sigh of satisfaction Thank God Thank God Oh this villain See how he has treated me She shot her arms out from her sleeves and we saw with horror that they were all mottled with bruises But this is nothing nothing It is my mind and soul that he has tortured and defiled I could endure it all ill usage solitude a life of deception everything as long as I could still cling to the hope that I had his love but now I know that in this also I have been his dupe and his tool She broke into |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | hand Good morning father said he Of the contention of feeling that ran high in Mr Nicholson s starched bosom no outward sign was visible nor did he delay long to make a choice of conduct Yet in that interval he had reviewed a great field of possibilities both past and future whether it was possible he had not been perfectly wise in his treatment of John whether it was possible that John was innocent whether if he turned John out a second time as his outraged authority suggested it was possible to avoid a scandal and whether if he |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | forgot your foot returned Dick Well we must go the gentlier I would I knew rightly where we were I have clean lost the path yet that may be for the better too An they watch the ferry they watch the path belike as well I would Sir Daniel were back with two score men he would sweep me these rascals as the wind sweeps leaves Come Jack lean ye on my shoulder ye poor shrew Nay y are not tall enough What age are ye for a wager twelve Nay I am sixteen said Matcham Y are poorly grown |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | and you have been promoting her comfort by preventing her from setting off half an hour sooner clouds are now coming up and she will not suffer from the heat as she would have done then I wish _you_ may not be fatigued by so much exercise I wish you had saved yourself this walk home No part of it fatigues me but getting off this horse I assure you said she as she sprang down with his help I am very strong Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like Miss Price I give way to |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | rather of the day before for it was considerably after midnight Coarse writing murmured Holmes Surely this is not your husband s writing madam No but the enclosure is I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go and inquire as to the address How can you tell that The name you see is in perfectly black ink which has dried itself The rest is of the greyish colour which shows that blotting paper has been used If it had been written straight off and then blotted none would be of a deep black shade This man has |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | robe and next a girdle of rope and then a huge rosary of wood heavy enough to be counted as a weapon Here he said is for you On with them And then when Dick had clothed himself in this clerical disguise Lawless produced some colours and a pencil and proceeded with the greatest cunning to disguise his face The eyebrows he thickened and produced to the moustache which was yet hardly visible he rendered a little service while by a few lines around the eye he changed the expression and increased the apparent age of this young monk Now |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | well looking man said Sir Walter a very well looking man A very fine young man indeed said Lady Dalrymple More air than one often sees in Bath Irish I dare say No I just know his name A bowing acquaintance Wentworth Captain Wentworth of the navy His sister married my tenant in Somersetshire the Croft who rents Kellynch Before Sir Walter had reached this point Anne s eyes had caught the right direction and distinguished Captain Wentworth standing among a cluster of men at a little distance As her eyes fell on him his seemed to be withdrawn from |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | But perhaps Mr Bingley did not take the house so much for the convenience of the neighbourhood as for his own and we must expect him to keep it or quit it on the same principle I should not be surprised said Darcy if he were to give it up as soon as any eligible purchase offers Elizabeth made no answer She was afraid of talking longer of his friend and having nothing else to say was now determined to leave the trouble of finding a subject to him He took the hint and soon began with This seems a |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | is not the gritty grey dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time while the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the wearer perspired very freely and could therefore hardly be in the best of training But his wife you said that she had ceased to love him This hat has not been brushed for weeks When I see you my dear Watson with a week s accumulation of dust upon your hat and when your wife allows you to |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | and his wife Toller for that is his name is a rough uncouth man with grizzled hair and whiskers and a perpetual smell of drink Twice since I have been with them he has been quite drunk and yet Mr Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face as silent as Mrs Rucastle and much less amiable They are a most unpleasant couple but fortunately I spend most of my time in the nursery and my own room which are next to each other in one corner |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | a brief space and then raising his head and heaving a gentle sign said half in abstraction and half to Master Bates What a pity it is he isn t a prig Ah said Master Charles Bates he don t know what s good for him The Dodger sighed again and resumed his pipe as did Charley Bates They both smoked for some seconds in silence I suppose you don t even know what a prig is said the Dodger mournfully I think I know that replied Oliver looking up It s a the you re one are you not |
Jane Austen | Emma | Miss Fairfax s opinion last night Do come with me said Mrs Weston if it be not very disagreeable to you It need not detain us long We will go to Hartfield afterwards We will follow them to Hartfield I really wish you to call with me It will be felt so great an attention and I always thought you meant it He could say no more and with the hope of Hartfield to reward him returned with Mrs Weston to Mrs Bates s door Emma watched them in and then joined Harriet at the interesting counter trying with all |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | uncurtained window There were only two men in the room Sir Henry and Stapleton They sat with their profiles towards me on either side of the round table Both of them were smoking cigars and coffee and wine were in front of them Stapleton was talking with animation but the baronet looked pale and distrait Perhaps the thought of that lonely walk across the ill omened moor was weighing heavily upon his mind As I watched them Stapleton rose and left the room while Sir Henry filled his glass again and leaned back in his chair puffing at his cigar |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | deck relieving her against a bank of scowling cloud and in this momentary glitter Dick could see a couple of men hauling the skiff alongside There sir said Lawless mark ye it well There is the ship for to night Presently the skiff put out from the vessel s side and the two men keeping her head well to the wind pulled lustily for shore Lawless turned to a loiterer How call ye her he asked pointing to the little vessel They call her the _Good Hope_ of Dartmouth replied the loiterer Her captain Arblaster by name He pulleth the |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | me from presuming to aspire to the liberty of addressing the companion of my youth by the familiar appellation of Copperfield It is sufficient to know that the name to which I do myself the honour to refer will ever be treasured among the muniments of our house I allude to the archives connected with our former lodgers preserved by Mrs Micawber with sentiments of personal esteem amounting to affection It is not for one situated through his original errors and a fortuitous combination of unpropitious events as is the foundered Bark if he may be allowed to assume so |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | as three or four men might have lain hidden All this while Alan had not said a word and had run and climbed with such a savage silent frenzy of hurry that I knew that he was in mortal fear of some miscarriage Even now we were on the rock he said nothing nor so much as relaxed the frowning look upon his face but clapped flat down and keeping only one eye above the edge of our place of shelter scouted all round the compass The dawn had come quite clear we could see the stony sides of the |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | fire to the pyre before me push out into the desolation of the high sea once more I felt that for Montgomery there was no help that he was in truth half akin to these Beast Folk unfitted for human kindred I do not know how long I sat there scheming It must have been an hour or so Then my planning was interrupted by the return of Montgomery to my neighbourhood I heard a yelling from many throats a tumult of exultant cries passing down towards the beach whooping and howling and excited shrieks that seemed to come to |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | here You will find out our troubles soon enough But those voices They were shouting Something about the Sleeper that s you They have some twisted idea I don t know what it is I know nothing A shrill bell jetted acutely across the indistinct mingling of remote noises and this brusque person sprang to a little group of appliances in the corner of the room He listened for a moment regarding a ball of crystal nodded and said a few indistinct words then he walked to the wall through which the two men had vanished It rolled up again |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | sets himself down at one of the public house windows behind the little red curtain with his hat on all ready to bolt out at a moment s notice He was smoking his pipe here late at night when all of a sudden Chickweed roars out Here he is Stop thief Murder Jem Spyers dashes out and there he sees Chickweed a tearing down the street full cry Away goes Spyers on goes Chickweed round turns the people everybody roars out Thieves and Chickweed himself keeps on shouting all the time like mad Spyers loses sight of him a minute |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms and how I hesitated between my crowbar and a hatchet or a sword I could not carry both however and my bar of iron promised best against the bronze gates There were numbers of guns pistols and rifles The most were masses of rust but many were of some new metal and still fairly sound But any cartridges or powder there may once have been had rotted into dust One corner I saw was charred and shattered perhaps I thought by an explosion among the specimens In another place was |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | some note of tragedy said I Why no sir not at all returned the lawyer For tragedy implies some ponderable matter in dispute some dignus vindice nodus and this piece of work was all about the petulance of a young ass that had been spoiled and wanted nothing so much as to be tied up and soundly belted However that was not your father s view and the end of it was that from concession to concession on your father s part and from one height to another of squalling sentimental selfishness upon your uncle s they came at last |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | I weary for my friends and country said he France is a braw place nae doubt but I weary for the heather and the deer And then I have bit things that I attend to Whiles I pick up a few lads to serve the King of France recruits ye see and that s aye a little money But the heart of the matter is the business of my chief Ardshiel I thought they called your chief Appin said I Ay but Ardshiel is the captain of the clan said he which scarcely cleared my mind Ye see David he |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Wemmick had by little and little got at the bottom of half of the regular business now transacted and it was from the talk of some of his people in trouble some of his people being always in trouble that I heard what I did I kept my ears open seeming to have them shut until I heard that he was absent and I thought that would be the best time for making the attempt I can only suppose now that it was a part of his policy as a very clever man habitually to deceive his own instruments You |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | him away from the outlook You are tired he said and while I sit you walk about Have my chair He placed himself between Griffin and the nearest window For a space Griffin sat silent and then he resumed abruptly I had left the Chesilstowe cottage already he said when that happened It was last December I had taken a room in London a large unfurnished room in a big ill managed lodging house in a slum near Great Portland Street The room was soon full of the appliances I had bought with his money the work was going on |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | into the chair they underwent a relapse which lasted five minutes This over Sir Matthew Pupker went on to say what must be his feelings on that great occasion and what must be that occasion in the eyes of the world and what must be the intelligence of his fellow countrymen before him and what must be the wealth and respectability of his honourable friends behind him and lastly what must be the importance to the wealth the happiness the comfort the liberty the very existence of a free and great people of such an Institution as the United Metropolitan |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | to cheer up sir to keep a good heart and to know your own walue If you was to take to something sir said Mrs Crupp if you was to take to skittles now which is healthy you might find it divert your mind and do you good With these words Mrs Crupp affecting to be very careful of the brandy which was all gone thanked me with a majestic curtsey and retired As her figure disappeared into the gloom of the entry this counsel certainly presented itself to my mind in the light of a slight liberty on Mrs |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | that I think that we came to a little open court within the palace It was turfed and had three fruit trees So we rested and refreshed ourselves Towards sunset I began to consider our position Night was creeping upon us and my inaccessible hiding place had still to be found But that troubled me very little now I had in my possession a thing that was perhaps the best of all defences against the Morlocks I had matches I had the camphor in my pocket too if a blaze were needed It seemed to me that the best thing |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | he You re the beast He takes his liquor like a Christian Come out of the way Prendick For God s sake said I Get out of the way he roared and suddenly whipped out his revolver Very well said I and stood aside half minded to fall upon him as he put his hand upon the latch but deterred by the thought of my useless arm You ve made a beast of yourself to the beasts you may go He flung the doorway open and stood half facing me between the yellow lamp light and the pallid glare of |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | and she was more grieved than astonished to hear in reply to her minute inquiries that though Jane always struggled to support her spirits there were periods of dejection It was reasonable however to hope that they would not continue long Mrs Gardiner gave her the particulars also of Miss Bingley s visit in Gracechurch Street and repeated conversations occurring at different times between Jane and herself which proved that the former had from her heart given up the acquaintance Mrs Gardiner then rallied her niece on Wickham s desertion and complimented her on bearing it so well But my |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | mine and hurrying back to my cabinet I once more prepared and drank the cup once more suffered the pangs of dissolution and came to myself once more with the character the stature and the face of Henry Jekyll That night I had come to the fatal cross roads Had I approached my discovery in a more noble spirit had I risked the experiment while under the empire of generous or pious aspirations all must have been otherwise and from these agonies of death and birth I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend The drug had no |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | the trail had been trodden very hard and the pursuers had thus a great advantage over the pursued They pushed on indeed at a round trot two hundred hoofs beating alternately on the dull pavement of the snow and the jingle of weapons and the snorting of horses raising a warlike noise along the arches of the silent wood Presently the wide slot of the pursued came out upon the highroad from Holywood it was there for a moment indistinguishable and where it once more plunged into the unbeaten snow upon the farther side Dick was surprised to see it |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | that her husband regarded the affair as she wished was excessively disappointed What do you mean Mr Bennet in talking this way You promised me to _insist_ upon her marrying him My dear replied her husband I have two small favours to request First that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion and secondly of my room I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be Not yet however in spite of her disappointment in her husband did Mrs Bennet give up the point She talked to |
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