Minnowgray

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

Deercoral

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

Centaurwest

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. Frillholly.

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.

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.