Pipersequoia

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.

Whimseymirage

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

Stonechatter

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

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

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.

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