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Jane Austen | Persuasion | him and his wife decided what was to be done She must be taken to their house all must go to their house and await the surgeon s arrival there They would not listen to scruples he was obeyed they were all beneath his roof and while Louisa under Mrs Harville s direction was conveyed up stairs and given possession of her own bed assistance cordials restoratives were supplied by her husband to all who needed them Louisa had once opened her eyes but soon closed them again without apparent consciousness This had been a proof of life however of |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | understand that said the visitor He was afraid one time that he d have to have an op ration he was that bad sir The visitor laughed abruptly a bark of a laugh that he seemed to bite and kill in his mouth _Was_ he he said He was sir And no laughing matter to them as had the doing for him as I had my sister being took up with her little ones so much There was bandages to do sir and bandages to undo So that if I may make so bold as to say it sir Will |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you who is very pretty and I dare say very agreeable Do let me ask my partner to introduce you Which do you mean and turning round he looked for a moment at Elizabeth till catching her eye he withdrew his own and coldly said She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt _me_ I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles for you are wasting your |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | fibres and it is white and opaque only for the same reason that a powder of glass is white and opaque Oil white paper fill up the interstices between the particles with oil so that there is no longer refraction or reflection except at the surfaces and it becomes as transparent as glass And not only paper but cotton fibre linen fibre wool fibre woody fibre and _bone_ Kemp _flesh_ Kemp _hair_ Kemp _nails_ and _nerves_ Kemp in fact the whole fabric of a man except the red of his blood and the black pigment of hair are all made |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | all you want I have set my heart on spoiling you I will just take _one_ drop more said the Admiral stooping to help himself to brandy It is surprising how this journey has fatigued me But I am growing old I am growing old I am growing old and I regret to add bald He cocked a white wide awake coquettishly upon his head the habit of the lady killer clung to him and Esther had already thrown on her hat and was ready while he was still studying the result in a mirror the carbuncle had somewhat painfully |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | have been to see you I have not the smallest objection on that account replied Anne I should never think of standing on such ceremony with people I know so well as Mrs and the Miss Musgroves Oh but they ought to call upon you as soon as possible They ought to feel what is due to you as _my_ sister However we may as well go and sit with them a little while and when we have that over we can enjoy our walk Anne had always thought such a style of intercourse highly imprudent but she had ceased |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris not even when she was gone for ever That Julia escaped better than Maria was owing in some measure to a favourable difference of disposition and circumstance but in a greater to her having been less the darling of that very aunt less flattered and less spoilt Her beauty and acquirements had held but a second place She had been always used to think herself a little inferior to Maria Her temper was naturally the easiest of the two her feelings though quick were more controllable and education had not given her |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | uncomfortable in her life Nor did he seem much more at ease when he spoke his accent had none of its usual sedateness and he repeated his inquiries as to the time of her having left Longbourn and of her having stayed in Derbyshire so often and in so hurried a way as plainly spoke the distraction of his thoughts At length every idea seemed to fail him and after standing a few moments without saying a word he suddenly recollected himself and took leave The others then joined her and expressed admiration of his figure but Elizabeth heard not |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | crawled to the edge and peered into a velvety blackness For a sickly moment he had courage neither to go on nor retreat then he sat and hung his leg down felt his guide s hands pulling at him had a horrible sensation of sliding over the edge into the unfathomable splashed and felt himself in a slushy gutter impenetrably dark This way whispered the voice and he began crawling along the gutter through the trickling thaw pressing himself against the wall They continued along it for some minutes He seemed to pass through a hundred stages of misery to |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | he were to see Lady Sannox I am ready said he pulling on his overcoat Will you take a glass of wine before you go out into this cold air His visitor shrank away with a protesting hand upraised You forget that I am a Mussulman and a true follower of the Prophet said he But tell me what is the bottle of green glass which you have placed in your pocket It is chloroform Ah that also is forbidden to us It is a spirit and we make no use of such things What You would allow your wife |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | was a most active magistrate in her own parish the minutest concerns of which were carried to her by Mr Collins and whenever any of the cottagers were disposed to be quarrelsome discontented or too poor she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences silence their complaints and scold them into harmony and plenty The entertainment of dining at Rosings was repeated about twice a week and allowing for the loss of Sir William and there being only one card table in the evening every such entertainment was the counterpart of the first Their other engagements were few |
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 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | to trust once more to my recollections aided by the diary which I kept at the time A few extracts from the latter will carry me on to those scenes which are indelibly fixed in every detail upon my memory I proceed then from the morning which followed our abortive chase of the convict and our other strange experiences upon the moor _October_ 16_th_ A dull and foggy day with a drizzle of rain The house is banked in with rolling clouds which rise now and then to show the dreary curves of the moor with thin silver veins upon |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | or be it son t you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommon one I should hope The king upon his throne with his crown upon his ed can t sit and write his acts of Parliament in print without having begun when he were a unpromoted Prince with the alphabet Ah added Joe with a shake of the head that was full of meaning and begun at A too and worked his way to Z And _I_ know what that is to do though I can t say I ve exactly done it There was |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | make a most important discovery I have found out said he by a singular accident that there is now in the room a near relation of my patroness I happened to overhear the gentleman himself mentioning to the young lady who does the honours of the house the names of his cousin Miss de Bourgh and of her mother Lady Catherine How wonderfully these sort of things occur Who would have thought of my meeting with perhaps a nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in this assembly I am most thankful that the discovery is made in time for me |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | world once more I scanned the view keenly But I saw no vestige of my white figures They were mere creatures of the half light They must have been ghosts I said I wonder whence they dated For a queer notion of Grant Allen s came into my head and amused me If each generation die and leave ghosts he argued the world at last will get overcrowded with them On that theory they would have grown innumerable some Eight Hundred Thousand Years hence and it was no great wonder to see four at once But the jest was unsatisfying |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | Joan he set forth on foot to walk away his impatience For some while he made rounds among the soldiery who were getting to arms in the wintry twilight of the dawn and by the red glow of torches but gradually he strolled farther afield and at length passed clean beyond the outposts and walked alone in the frozen forest waiting for the sun His thoughts were both quiet and happy His brief favour with the duke he could not find it in his heart to mourn with Joan to wife and my Lord Foxham for a faithful patron he |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | balloon and with much the same curvature at the top There was in them a delicacy of texture and colouring which reminded me of the finest Venetian glass Pale shades of pink and green were the prevailing tints but all had a lovely iridescence where the sun shimmered through their dainty forms Some hundreds of them drifted past me a wonderful fairy squadron of strange unknown argosies of the sky creatures whose forms and substance were so attuned to these pure heights that one could not conceive anything so delicate within actual sight or sound of earth But soon my |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | Can I take your hat and coat sir she said and give them a good dry in the kitchen No he said without turning She was not sure she had heard him and was about to repeat her question He turned his head and looked at her over his shoulder I prefer to keep them on he said with emphasis and she noticed that he wore big blue spectacles with sidelights and had a bush side whisker over his coat collar that completely hid his cheeks and face Very well sir she said _As_ you like In a bit the |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | therein there glares a small Saracen s Head with a twin expression to the large Saracens Heads below so that the general appearance of the pile is decidedly of the Saracenic order When you walk up this yard you will see the booking office on your left and the tower of St Sepulchre s church darting abruptly up into the sky on your right and a gallery of bedrooms on both sides Just before you you will observe a long window with the words coffee room legibly painted above it and looking out of that window you would have seen |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | audible than below I found Provis comfortably settled He expressed no alarm and seemed to feel none that was worth mentioning but it struck me that he was softened indefinably for I could not have said how and could never afterwards recall how when I tried but certainly The opportunity that the day s rest had given me for reflection had resulted in my fully determining to say nothing to him respecting Compeyson For anything I knew his animosity towards the man might otherwise lead to his seeking him out and rushing on his own destruction Therefore when Herbert and |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes Here I had heard what he had heard I had seen what he had seen and yet from his words it was evident that he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to happen while to me the whole business was still confused and grotesque As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought over it all from the extraordinary story of the red headed copier of the _Encyclopædia_ down to the visit to Saxe Coburg Square |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | nothing half so shady as its trees nothing half so quiet as its tombstones The sheep are feeding there when I kneel up early in the morning in my little bed in a closet within my mother s room to look out at it and I see the red light shining on the sun dial and think within myself Is the sun dial glad I wonder that it can tell the time again Here is our pew in the church What a high backed pew With a window near it out of which our house can be seen and IS |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | should give me the slip by any chance observed Squeers when he had finished looking very cunning I ve taken three outsides for tomorrow morning for Wackford and him and me and have arranged to leave the accounts and the new boys to the agent don t you see So it s very lucky you come today or you d have missed us and as it is unless you could come and tea with me tonight we shan t see anything more of you before we go away Dean t say anoother wurd returned the Yorkshireman shaking him by the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | Mr Hyde s but he was not at home he had been in that night very late but he had gone away again in less than an hour there was nothing strange in that his habits were very irregular and he was often absent for instance it was nearly two months since she had seen him till yesterday Very well then we wish to see his rooms said the lawyer and when the woman began to declare it was impossible I had better tell you who this person is he added This is Inspector Newcomen of Scotland Yard A flash |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | procuring I yet seek but therein lies the nerve of this discomfiture An t please you Sir Oliver said Bennet the axles are so hot in this country that I have long been smelling fire So did this poor sinner Appleyard And by your leave men s spirits are so foully inclined to all of us that it needs neither York nor Lancaster to spur them on Hear my plain thoughts You that are a clerk and Sir Daniel that sails on any wind ye have taken many men s goods and beaten and hanged not a few Y are |
Jane Austen | Emma | consent to be with the Eltons Here is quite a separate puzzle Upon her speaking her wonder aloud on that part of the subject before the few who knew her opinion of Mrs Elton Mrs Weston ventured this apology for Jane We cannot suppose that she has any great enjoyment at the Vicarage my dear Emma but it is better than being always at home Her aunt is a good creature but as a constant companion must be very tiresome We must consider what Miss Fairfax quits before we condemn her taste for what she goes to You are right |
Jane Austen | Emma | An hundred miles perhaps instead of forty Ah my dear as Perry says where health is at stake nothing else should be considered and if one is to travel there is not much to chuse between forty miles and an hundred Better not move at all better stay in London altogether than travel forty miles to get into a worse air This is just what Perry said It seemed to him a very ill judged measure Emma s attempts to stop her father had been vain and when he had reached such a point as this she could not wonder |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | burst open They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue The bearded man s revolver cracked and the looking glass at the back of the parlour starred and came smashing and tinkling down As the barman entered the room he saw Marvel curiously crumpled up and struggling against the door that led to the yard and kitchen The door flew open while the barman hesitated and Marvel was dragged into the kitchen There was a scream and a clatter of pans Marvel head down and lugging back obstinately was |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | primly As it happens I have charge of it Ah Isbister thought hesitated and spoke No doubt his keep here is not expensive no doubt it will have improved accumulated It has He will wake up very much better off if he wakes than when he slept As a business man said Isbister that thought has naturally been in my mind I have indeed sometimes thought that speaking commercially of course this sleep may be a very good thing for him That he knows what he is about so to speak in being insensible so long If he had lived |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | worse effect than causing her to rub her nose very hard and then fall asleep again And thus the night crept slowly on Oliver lay awake for some time counting the little circles of light which the reflection of the rushlight shade threw upon the ceiling or tracing with his languid eyes the intricate pattern of the paper on the wall The darkness and the deep stillness of the room were very solemn as they brought into the boy s mind the thought that death had been hovering there for many days and nights and might yet fill it with |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | we contemplated the fire and as I thought what a difficult vision to realize this same Capital sometimes was I put my hands in my pockets A folded piece of paper in one of them attracting my attention I opened it and found it to be the play bill I had received from Joe relative to the celebrated provincial amateur of Roscian renown And bless my heart I involuntarily added aloud it s to night This changed the subject in an instant and made us hurriedly resolve to go to the play So when I had pledged myself to comfort |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | asked Joe whether he had heard if any of the other relations had any legacies Miss Sarah said Joe she have twenty five pound perannium fur to buy pills on account of being bilious Miss Georgiana she have twenty pound down Mrs what s the name of them wild beasts with humps old chap Camels said I wondering why he could possibly want to know Joe nodded Mrs Camels by which I presently understood he meant Camilla she have five pound fur to buy rushlights to put her in spirits when she wake up in the night The accuracy of |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | other directions Certainly it had some means of finding its way about and of hunting down the sheep upon the hillside As to its choice of dark nights it is part of my theory that light was painful to those great white eyeballs and that it was only a pitch black world which it could tolerate Perhaps indeed it was the glare of my lantern which saved my life at that awful moment when we were face to face So I read the riddle I leave these facts behind me and if you can explain them do so or if |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | carnivorous dinosaurs would meet the case Among them are to be found all the most terrible types of animal life that have ever cursed the earth or blessed a museum He laughed sonorously at his own conceit for though he had little sense of humor the crudest pleasantry from his own lips moved him always to roars of appreciation The less noise the better said Lord Roxton curtly We don t know who or what may be near us If this fellah comes back for his breakfast and catches us here we won t have so much to laugh at |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | and was slowly carried forward and placed in front of the Professor s chair All sound had hushed in the audience and everyone was absorbed in the spectacle before them Professor Challenger drew off the top of the case which formed a sliding lid Peering down into the box he snapped his fingers several times and was heard from the Press seat to say Come then pretty pretty in a coaxing voice An instant later with a scratching rattling sound a most horrible and loathsome creature appeared from below and perched itself upon the side of the case Even the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | slab of stone instantly started in its bed They were free of the passage A little exercise of strength easily raised the trap and they came forth into a vaulted chamber opening on one hand upon the court where one or two fellows with bare arms were rubbing down the horses of the last arrivals A torch or two each stuck in an iron ring against the wall changefully lit up the scene CHAPTER V HOW DICK CHANGED SIDES Dick blowing out his lamp lest it should attract attention led the way up stairs and along the corridor In the |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Jekyll and Hyde | shelter of my cabinet before I was once again raging and freezing with the passions of Hyde It took on this occasion a double dose to recall me to myself and alas six hours after as I sat looking sadly in the fire the pangs returned and the drug had to be re administered In short from that day forth it seemed only by a great effort as of gymnastics and only under the immediate stimulation of the drug that I was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll At all hours of the day and night I would be |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | as others are often it is no uncommon case died and to repair the misery he had been instrumental in occasioning left him his panacea for all griefs Money It was necessary that he should immediately repair to Rome whither this man had sped for health and where he had died leaving his affairs in great confusion He went was seized with mortal illness there was followed the moment the intelligence reached Paris by your mother who carried you with her he died the day after her arrival leaving no will _no will_ so that the whole property fell to |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | beast whatever it was must surely be after ME My skin grew cold and my hair rose at the thought That these monsters should tear each other to pieces was a part of the strange struggle for existence but that they should turn upon modern man that they should deliberately track and hunt down the predominant human was a staggering and fearsome thought I remembered again the blood beslobbered face which we had seen in the glare of Lord John s torch like some horrible vision from the deepest circle of Dante s hell With my knees shaking beneath me |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | cousin of his own into a certain mill which I design for somebody else I must come to an understanding with him I must make him know that I will not be tricked on the south side of Everingham any more than on the north that I will be master of my own property I was not explicit enough with him before The mischief such a man does on an estate both as to the credit of his employer and the welfare of the poor is inconceivable I have a great mind to go back into Norfolk directly and put |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | and helpless state had first established a claim upon their compassion and whose truth of heart and grateful earnest nature had every day endeared him to them more and more I am sure said Mrs Nickleby wiping her eyes and sobbing bitterly I have lost the best the most zealous and most attentive creature that has ever been a companion to me in my life putting you my dear Nicholas and Kate and your poor papa and that well behaved nurse who ran away with the linen and the twelve small forks out of the question of course Of all |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | and the ominous words with which he had parted from me What was this nocturnal expedition and why should I go armed Where were we going and what were we to do I had the hint from Holmes that this smooth faced pawnbroker s assistant was a formidable man a man who might play a deep game I tried to puzzle it out but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside until night should bring an explanation It was a quarter past nine when I started from home and made my way across the Park and so |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | head as if she were outside Mr Peggotty took the light from the window trimmed it put it on the table and was busily stirring the fire when Ham who had not moved said Mas r Davy will you come out a minute and see what Em ly and me has got to show you We went out As I passed him at the door I saw to my astonishment and fright that he was deadly pale He pushed me hastily into the open air and closed the door upon us Only upon us two Ham what s the matter |
H.G. Wells | Time Machine | than the Upper And when other meat failed them they turned to what old habit had hitherto forbidden So I say I saw it in my last view of the world of Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One It may be as wrong an explanation as mortal wit could invent It is how the thing shaped itself to me and as that I give it to you After the fatigues excitements and terrors of the past days and in spite of my grief this seat and the tranquil view and the warm sunlight were very pleasant I |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | to turn a man ill to see his lean old carcase shivering in that way like a ugly ghost just rose from the grave Nancy quickly brought a bottle from a cupboard in which there were many which to judge from the diversity of their appearance were filled with several kinds of liquids Sikes pouring out a glass of brandy bade the Jew drink it off Quite enough quite thankye Bill replied the Jew putting down the glass after just setting his lips to it What You re afraid of our getting the better of you are you inquired Sikes |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | the ham and drank a glass of the brose to Mrs Maclaren and then after a great number of civilities Robin took the pipes and played a little spring in a very ranting manner Ay ye can blow said Alan and taking the instrument from his rival he first played the same spring in a manner identical with Robin s and then wandered into variations which as he went on he decorated with a perfect flight of grace notes such as pipers love and call the warblers I had been pleased with Robin s playing Alan s ravished me That |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Browdie replied Miss Squeers looking singularly dismal Well then said John it s no matther I ve only been a married man fower days account of poor old feyther deein and puttin it off Here be a weddin party broide and broide s maid and the groom if a mun dean t joy himsel noo when ought he hey Drat it all thot s what I want to know So in order that he might begin to enjoy himself at once and lose no time Mr Browdie gave his wife a hearty kiss and succeeded in wresting another from Miss |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | I was writing to Agnes that I began to think she meant to walk till morning My letter to Agnes was a fervent and grateful one narrating all the good effects that had resulted from my following her advice She wrote by return of post to me Her letter was hopeful earnest and cheerful She was always cheerful from that time I had my hands more full than ever now My daily journeys to Highgate considered Putney was a long way off and I naturally wanted to go there as often as I could The proposed tea drinkings being quite |
Jane Austen | Emma | and your riddle book one of these days Harriet s was Oh what a sweet house How very beautiful There are the yellow curtains that Miss Nash admires so much I do not often walk this way _now_ said Emma as they proceeded but _then_ there will be an inducement and I shall gradually get intimately acquainted with all the hedges gates pools and pollards of this part of Highbury Harriet she found had never in her life been inside the Vicarage and her curiosity to see it was so extreme that considering exteriors and probabilities Emma could only class |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | day All the boxes of goods the hanging fabrics the festoons of lace the boxes of sweets in the grocery section the displays of this and that were being whipped down folded up slapped into tidy receptacles and everything that could not be taken down and put away had sheets of some coarse stuff like sacking flung over them Finally all the chairs were turned up on to the counters leaving the floor clear Directly each of these young people had done he or she made promptly for the door with such an expression of animation as I have rarely |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | we shall test you tonight Might I ask you as a very great favour when you occupy that couch tonight to sleep with this old funnel placed by the side of your pillow The request seemed to me a grotesque one but I have myself in my complex nature a hunger after all which is bizarre and fantastic I had not the faintest belief in Dacre s theory nor any hopes for success in such an experiment yet it amused me that the experiment should be made Dacre with great gravity drew a small stand to the head of my |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | and far away down the vista of electric lighted doors we saw the stiff figure of the old soldier suddenly appear Professor Andreas saw him also and stopped running with a gesture of despair At the same instant we each laid a hand upon his shoulder Yes yes gentlemen he panted I will come with you To your room Mr Ward Mortimer if you please I feel that I owe you an explanation My companion s indignation was so great that I could see that he dared not trust himself to reply We walked on each side of the old |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | into his own thoughts but he is always quick to answer a question or join in a conversation talking in a queer jerky half humorous fashion His knowledge of the world and very especially of South America is surprising and he has a whole hearted belief in the possibilities of our journey which is not to be dashed by the sneers of Professor Summerlee He has a gentle voice and a quiet manner but behind his twinkling blue eyes there lurks a capacity for furious wrath and implacable resolution the more dangerous because they are held in leash He spoke |
Jane Austen | Emma | would have contrived it between September and January A man at his age what is he three or four and twenty cannot be without the means of doing as much as that It is impossible That s easily said and easily felt by you who have always been your own master You are the worst judge in the world Mr Knightley of the difficulties of dependence You do not know what it is to have tempers to manage It is not to be conceived that a man of three or four and twenty should not have liberty of mind or |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | circumstance that never occurred before although I have several times been mistaken for my daughter Kate I have no doubt the people were very foolish and perhaps ought to have known better but still they did take me for her and of course that was no fault of mine and it would be very hard indeed if I was to be made responsible for it However in this instance of course I must feel that I should do exceedingly wrong if I suffered anybody especially anybody that I am under great obligations to to be made uncomfortable on my account |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | grief for him than she had known on first hearing of his death Mr Musgrove was in a lesser degree affected likewise and when they reached the cottage they were evidently in want first of being listened to anew on this subject and afterwards of all the relief which cheerful companions could give them To hear them talking so much of Captain Wentworth repeating his name so often puzzling over past years and at last ascertaining that it _might_ that it probably _would_ turn out to be the very same Captain Wentworth whom they recollected meeting once or twice after |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | it here to the foxes and the ravens I suggest that we put it in one of the huts until we can communicate with the police Exactly I have no doubt that you and I could carry it so far Halloa Watson what s this It s the man himself by all that s wonderful and audacious Not a word to show your suspicions not a word or my plans crumble to the ground A figure was approaching us over the moor and I saw the dull red glow of a cigar The moon shone upon him and I could |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | looking at your register said Holmes Not in the least The book showed that two names had been added after that of Baskerville One was Theophilus Johnson and family of Newcastle the other Mrs Oldmore and maid of High Lodge Alton Surely that must be the same Johnson whom I used to know said Holmes to the porter A lawyer is he not grey headed and walks with a limp No sir this is Mr Johnson the coal owner a very active gentleman not older than yourself Surely you are mistaken about his trade No sir he has used this |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | said in answer to his wife s inquiry We d better be a takin of his luggage in He ought to have it cauterised at once said Mr Huxter especially if it s at all inflamed I d shoot en that s what I d do said a lady in the group Suddenly the dog began growling again Come along cried an angry voice in the doorway and there stood the muffled stranger with his collar turned up and his hat brim bent down The sooner you get those things in the better I ll be pleased It is stated |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | in by Miss Mills s maid and taken the area way to the back kitchen I have since seen reason to believe that there was nothing on earth to prevent my going in at the front door and being shown up into the drawing room except Miss Mills s love of the romantic and mysterious In the back kitchen I raved as became me I went there I suppose to make a fool of myself and I am quite sure I did it Miss Mills had received a hasty note from Dora telling her that all was discovered and saying |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | which I have since made Shall you ever have courage to announce to Lady Catherine what is to befall her I am more likely to want more time than courage Elizabeth But it ought to be done and if you will give me a sheet of paper it shall be done directly And if I had not a letter to write myself I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing as another young lady once did But I have an aunt too who must not be longer neglected From an unwillingness to confess how much her |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | will hardly twine from ye David without some kind of reason for the same said Alan mighty gravely If ye ken anything against my reputation it s the least thing that ye should do for old acquaintance sake to let me hear the name of it and if ye have only taken a distaste to my society it will be proper for me to judge if I m insulted Alan said I what is the sense of this Ye ken very well yon Campbell man lies in his blood upon the road He was silent for a little then says |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Tales and Fantasies | it he was in those days well favoured and pleased by his exterior There was at that period a certain extramural teacher of anatomy whom I shall here designate by the letter K His name was subsequently too well known The man who bore it skulked through the streets of Edinburgh in disguise while the mob that applauded at the execution of Burke called loudly for the blood of his employer But Mr K was then at the top of his vogue he enjoyed a popularity due partly to his own talent and address partly to the incapacity of his |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | smoke of their weapons Too late The flying machine dwindled smaller and smaller and curved about and swept gracefully downward to the flying stage from which it had so lately risen Ostrog had escaped For a while a confused babblement arose from the ruins and then the universal attention came back to Graham perched high among the scaffolding He saw the faces of the people turned towards him heard their shouts at his rescue From the throat of the ways came the song of the revolt spreading like a breeze across that swaying sea of men The little group of |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | my own not very flattering portrait and in larger characters the amount of the blood money that had been set upon my life Duncan Dhu and the rest that knew that I had come there in Alan s company could have entertained no doubt of who I was and many others must have had their guess For though I had changed my clothes I could not change my age or person and Lowland boys of eighteen were not so rife in these parts of the world and above all about that time that they could fail to put one thing |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | laps A family box carries double always Ring in the orchestra Grudden That useful lady did as she was requested and shortly afterwards the tuning of three fiddles was heard Which process having been protracted as long as it was supposed that the patience of the audience could possibly bear it was put a stop to by another jerk of the bell which being the signal to begin in earnest set the orchestra playing a variety of popular airs with involuntary variations If Nicholas had been astonished at the alteration for the better which the gentlemen displayed the transformation of |
Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World | we were they had us spread eagled on our backs I call them apes but they carried sticks and stones in their hands and jabbered talk to each other and ended up by tyin our hands with creepers so they are ahead of any beast that I have seen in my wanderin s Ape men that s what they are Missin Links and I wish they had stayed missin They carried off their wounded comrade he was bleedin like a pig and then they sat around us and if ever I saw frozen murder it was in their faces They |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived It is pleasant to me to observe Watson that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up and I am bound to say occasionally to embellish you have given prominence not so much to the many _causes célèbres_ and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have |
H.G. Wells | Invisible Man | he ran like a man who evades observation He vanished behind a laburnum and appeared again clambering over a fence that abutted on the open down In a second he had tumbled over and was running at a tremendous pace down the slope towards Mr Heelas Lord cried Mr Heelas struck with an idea it s that Invisible Man brute It s right after all With Mr Heelas to think things like that was to act and his cook watching him from the top window was amazed to see him come pelting towards the house at a good nine miles |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | the Gouldings soon That will make thirteen with ourselves so there will be just room at table for him Consoled by this resolution she was the better able to bear her husband s incivility though it was very mortifying to know that her neighbours might all see Mr Bingley in consequence of it before _they_ did As the day of his arrival drew near I begin to be sorry that he comes at all said Jane to her sister It would be nothing I could see him with perfect indifference but I can hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | of my relative s praises and I learned from him that Mr Everard King was already a name to conjure with in that part of the county He had entertained the school children he had thrown his grounds open to visitors he had subscribed to charities in short his benevolence had been so universal that my driver could only account for it on the supposition that he had parliamentary ambitions My attention was drawn away from my driver s panegyric by the appearance of a very beautiful bird which settled on a telegraph post beside the road At first I |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | like better but I must remain with these two fellows We are all three off together tomorrow morning Then bring them here to dinner I returned Do you think they would come Oh they would come fast enough said Steerforth but we should inconvenience you You had better come and dine with us somewhere I would not by any means consent to this for it occurred to me that I really ought to have a little house warming and that there never could be a better opportunity I had a new pride in my rooms after his approval of them |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | to be related to them will have its use in fixing your family our family let me say in that degree of consideration which we must all wish for Yes sighed Anne we shall indeed be known to be related to them then recollecting herself and not wishing to be answered she added I certainly do think there has been by far too much trouble taken to procure the acquaintance I suppose smiling I have more pride than any of you but I confess it does vex me that we should be so solicitous to have the relationship acknowledged which |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | man as robbed his house I see him Spyers said Chickweed pass my house yesterday morning Why didn t you up and collar him says Spyers I was so struck all of a heap that you might have fractured my skull with a toothpick says the poor man but we re sure to have him for between ten and eleven o clock at night he passed again Spyers no sooner heard this than he put some clean linen and a comb in his pocket in case he should have to stop a day or two and away he goes and |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | and have dinner with him I was to ask my way to such a place and just short of that place I should see such another place and just short of that I should see a yard which I was to cross and keep straight on until I saw a turnkey All this I did and when at last I did see a turnkey poor little fellow that I was and thought how when Roderick Random was in a debtors prison there was a man there with nothing on him but an old rug the turnkey swam before my dimmed |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | see some familiar aspect of the life of the nineteenth century to see perhaps the little harbour of Boscastle about him the cliffs of Pentargen or the bedroom of his home But fact takes no heed of human hopes A squad of men with a black banner tramped athwart the nearer shadows intent on conflict and beyond rose that giddy wall of frontage vast and dark with the dim incomprehensible lettering showing faintly on its face It is no dream he said no dream And he bowed his face upon his hands CHAPTER XI THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | the top of the hill and looked down on the Ferry and the Hope The Firth of Forth as is very well known narrows at this point to the width of a good sized river which makes a convenient ferry going north and turns the upper reach into a landlocked haven for all manner of ships Right in the midst of the narrows lies an islet with some ruins on the south shore they have built a pier for the service of the Ferry and at the end of the pier on the other side of the road and backed |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | our earliest folly I endeavoured to convert what might have been between myself and Agnes into a means of making me more self denying more resolved more conscious of myself and my defects and errors Thus through the reflection that it might have been I arrived at the conviction that it could never be These with their perplexities and inconsistencies were the shifting quicksands of my mind from the time of my departure to the time of my return home three years afterwards Three years had elapsed since the sailing of the emigrant ship when at that same hour of |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | I I picked up the hatchets and swung them by their heads from the sling of my arm turned Montgomery over picked up his revolver still loaded in two chambers and bending down to rummage found half a dozen cartridges in his pocket Take him said I standing up again and pointing with the whip take him and carry him out and cast him into the sea They came forward evidently still afraid of Montgomery but still more afraid of my cracking red whip lash and after some fumbling and hesitation some whip cracking and shouting they lifted him gingerly |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | did not write again till he had received an answer from Colonel Forster and then he had nothing of a pleasant nature to send It was not known that Wickham had a single relationship with whom he kept up any connection and it was certain that he had no near one living His former acquaintances had been numerous but since he had been in the militia it did not appear that he was on terms of particular friendship with any of them There was no one therefore who could be pointed out as likely to give any news of him |
H.G. Wells | The Sleeper Awakes | been there Boscastle Graham turned his eyes to the youngster That was it Boscastle Little Boscastle I fell asleep somewhere there I don t exactly remember I don t exactly remember He pressed his brows and whispered More than _two hundred years_ He began to speak quickly with a twitching face but his heart was cold within him But if it _is_ two hundred years every soul I know every human being that ever I saw or spoke to before I went to sleep must be dead They did not answer him The Queen and the Royal Family her Ministers |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | of hopeless agony of the other he repeated with such tremulous feeling the various lines which imaged a broken heart or a mind destroyed by wretchedness and looked so entirely as if he meant to be understood that she ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry and to say that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly His looks shewing him not pained |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | her face on my shoulder in such a profusion of curls that it was quite a task to clear them away and see it Don t I think it would have been better to have done nothing than to have tried to form my little wife s mind said I laughing at myself Is that the question Yes indeed I do Is that what you have been trying cried Dora Oh what a shocking boy But I shall never try any more said I For I love her dearly as she is Without a story really inquired Dora creeping closer |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | men at arms each cased in iron and with visor lowered each bearing his lance in rest or his sword bared and raised and each carrying so to speak a passenger in the shape of an archer or page who leaped one after another from their perches and had presently doubled the array The original assailants seeing themselves outnumbered and surrounded threw down their arms without a word Seize me these fellows said the hero of the trumpet and when his order had been obeyed he drew near to Dick and looked him in the face Dick returning this scrutiny |
Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | fashioned window seat where there was ample room for two it was also natural that Tim should sit down beside her and as to Tim s being unusually spruce and particular in his attire that day why it was a high festival and a great occasion and that was the most natural thing of all Tim sat down beside Miss La Creevy and crossing one leg over the other so that his foot he had very comely feet and happened to be wearing the neatest shoes and black silk stockings possible should come easily within the range of her eye |
H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea breeze the world was a confusion blurred with drifting black and red phantasms until I was out of earshot of the house in the chequered wall IX THE THING IN THE FOREST I strode through the undergrowth that clothed the ridge behind the house scarcely heeding whither I went passed on through the shadow of a thick cluster of straight stemmed trees beyond it and so presently found myself some way on the other side of the ridge and descending towards a streamlet that ran through a narrow valley I paused |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of Baskervilles | stood aghast at the fury of the man one more wicked or it may be more drunken than the rest cried out that they should put the hounds upon her Whereat Hugo ran from the house crying to his grooms that they should saddle his mare and unkennel the pack and giving the hounds a kerchief of the maid s he swung them to the line and so off full cry in the moonlight over the moor Now for some space the revellers stood agape unable to understand all that had been done in such haste But anon their bemused |
Jane Austen | Emma | where they may _You_ do not often overpower me with it You are expecting her again you say this morning Almost every moment She has been gone longer already than she intended Something has happened to delay her some visitors perhaps Highbury gossips Tiresome wretches Harriet may not consider every body tiresome that you would Emma knew this was too true for contradiction and therefore said nothing He presently added with a smile I do not pretend to fix on times or places but I must tell you that I have good reason to believe your little friend will soon |
Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | hamlet One had been all his life a shipman |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | said I Ay There s some of the birds flown from the cages The guns have been going since dark about You ll hear one presently In effect we had not walked many yards further when the well remembered boom came towards us deadened by the mist and heavily rolled away along the low grounds by the river as if it were pursuing and threatening the fugitives A good night for cutting off in said Orlick We d be puzzled how to bring down a jail bird on the wing to night The subject was a suggestive one to me |
Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | part of a ridiculous exhibition in the midst of theatrical nonsense and forced in so untoward a moment to admit the acquaintance of a young man whom he felt sure of disapproving and whose easy indifference and volubility in the course of the first five minutes seemed to mark him the most at home of the two Tom understood his father s thoughts and heartily wishing he might be always as well disposed to give them but partial expression began to see more clearly than he had ever done before that there might be some ground of offence that there |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | she could see that I was amused Her father is very rich He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope And how did he make his money In mining He had nothing a few years ago Then he struck gold invested it and came up by leaps and bounds Now what is your own impression as to the young lady s your wife s character The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down into the fire You see Mr Holmes said he my wife was twenty before her father became a rich man |
Arthur Conan Doyle | Tales of Terror and Mystery | his hand that he was engaged in finishing the strange disfigurement which he had begun I could realize from the heavy breathing of my companion and the twitchings of the hand which still clutched my wrist the furious indignation which filled his heart as he saw this vandalism in the quarter of all others where he could least have expected it He the very man who a fortnight before had reverently bent over this unique relic and who had impressed its antiquity and its sanctity upon us was now engaged in this outrageous profanation It was impossible unthinkable and yet |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | thrice What do you mean said Charley Toor rul lol loo gammon and spinnage the frog he wouldn t and high cockolorum said the Dodger with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance This was explanatory but not satisfactory Master Bates felt it so and again said What do you mean The Dodger made no reply but putting his hat on again and gathering the skirts of his long tailed coat under his arm thrust his tongue into his cheek slapped the bridge of his nose some half dozen times in a familiar but expressive manner and turning on his |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | scruple in abusing you to all your relations What did you say of me that I did not deserve For though your accusations were ill founded formed on mistaken premises my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof It was unpardonable I cannot think of it without abhorrence We will not quarrel for the greater share of blame annexed to that evening said Elizabeth The conduct of neither if strictly examined will be irreproachable but since then we have both I hope improved in civility I cannot be so easily reconciled to myself The recollection of |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | had never seen it before and then with a laugh of recognition and said Thank you Flopson and forgot me and went on reading I found now I had leisure to count them that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present in various stages of tumbling up I had scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard as in the region of air wailing dolefully If there ain t Baby said Flopson appearing to think it most surprising Make haste up Millers Millers who was the other nurse retired into the house and by degrees the |
Jane Austen | Persuasion | Captain Wentworth is just returned to England or paid off or something and is coming to see them almost directly and most unluckily it came into mamma s head when they were gone that Wentworth or something very like it was the name of poor Richard s captain at one time I do not know when or where but a great while before he died poor fellow And upon looking over his letters and things she found it was so and is perfectly sure that this must be the very man and her head is quite full of it and |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | thronged pell mell to the spot they had left each man crushing and striving with his neighbor and all panting with impatience to get near the door and look upon the criminal as the officers brought him out The cries and shrieks of those who were pressed almost to suffocation or trampled down and trodden under foot in the confusion were dreadful the narrow ways were completely blocked up and at this time between the rush of some to regain the space in front of the house and the unavailing struggles of others to extricate themselves from the mass the |
Charles Dickens | Oliver Twis | ALONE Her situation was indeed one of no common trial and difficulty While she felt the most eager and burning desire to penetrate the mystery in which Oliver s history was enveloped she could not but hold sacred the confidence which the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed had reposed in her as a young and guileless girl Her words and manner had touched Rose Maylie s heart and mingled with her love for her young charge and scarcely less intense in its truth and fervour was her fond wish to win the outcast back to repentance and |
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