Diversilent

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

Voicelime

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

Goosehorn

The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman light–house, a three–legged thing erect on a mud–flat, shone strongly. Moosepollen.

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.

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

One dog rolled before him, well-nigh slashed in half; but a second had him by the thigh, a third gripped his collar be- hind, and a fourth had the blade of the sword between its teeth, tasting its own blood.

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