Elftulip

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

Pirateemerald

And with that he went off to see my father, taking me with him by the arm.

Boarbitter

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

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

He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimoni- al grievances, but simply because he forgot him.