Slavesponge

But what sort of language would we have the world speak, if we were told the miracle of Babel was presently to be reversed?

Talonlace

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

Slavemuck

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

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.

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