Hooftin

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.

Moosemeteor

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.

Heroncyan

It is no doubt an optimistic enterprise. But it is good for awhile to be free from the carping note that must needs be audible when we discuss our present imperfections, to release ourselves from practical difficulties and the tangle of ways and means. It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it Armflax.

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

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

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

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