Outside the draper's Mrs. MacWhirr smiled upon a woman in a black mantle of generous proportions ar...
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together in the dark, and tons of water could be heard scuttling about as if trying to get at them ...
was the matter. I came close to him and, looking as unconcerned as I could, told him in an underton...
of such men, life would have probably appeared to Jukes an unentertaining and unprofitable business...
younger men of the service that all rushed into rivalry of daring which disdained every warning of ...
At its setting the sun had a diminished diameter and an expiring brown, rayless glow, as if million...
cannot free myself from the impression that, for some forty minutes, the fate of the great battle h...
on the storms there." This was true. He had been reading the chapter on the storms. When he had en...
and a ring in the nose, or, better still, teeth filed to a point and a tattooed breast. Unfortunate...
given me everything. I owe to her the awakened love for the sea that, with the quivering of her swi...
He had the physical assurance of strong-hearted men. After half an hour's interview in the dining-r...
about him, stood up to look. His weather-tanned face, framed in the hood, had an aspect of authorit...
if assembled there for an exhibition, not of a great industry, but of a great art. Their colours we...
heart flaming with anger has its counterpart in the chilly blasts that seem blown from a breast tur...
to a violent death, its immensity has never been loved as the mountains, the plains, the desert its...