Painterthorn

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

Thumbgrove

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.

Snarlgreat

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

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.

He spoke of the happiness that was now certainly theirs, of the folly of not breaking sooner out of that magnificent prison of latter-day life, of the old romantic days that had passed from the world for ever.

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