Cloudcookie

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

Chatterquark

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.

Throatspring

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

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

It was at this time that the meeting, or, rather gathering of the mem- bers of this inharmonious family took place in the cell of the elder who had such an extraordinary influence on Alyosha.

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

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

I protest, even warmly, that neither he nor his sorrows were in my intention.