So, quite unexpectedly, my brother found himself, panting, with a cut mouth, a bruised jaw, and bloodstained knuckles, driving along an unkn...
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We decided to use this room, on the second floor and overlooking the plaza, for Dejah Thoris and Sola, and another room adjoining and in the...
Night City In a few minutes there was, so far as the soldier could see, not a living thing left upon the common, and every bush and tree upo...
Slowly she drifted to the southeast, rising higher and higher as the flames ate away her wooden parts and diminished the weight upon her. As...
This midnight-spout had almost grown a forgotten thing, when, some days after, lo! at the same silent hour, it was again announced: again it...
"In spite of all these diseases, and of all the new ones that continued to arise, there were more and more men in the world. This was ...
During the first days, they went along smoothly enough. The sea was not very unpropitious, the wind seemed stationary in the north-east, th...
My brother noticed a pale grey smoke or haze rising among the houses in front of them, and veiling the white facade of a terrace beyond the ...
Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that inte...
There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself, 'I wonder what they WILL do next! If they had any sense, they'd t...
As I walked, my eyes were bent upon the beach so that it was not until I had come quite upon it that I discovered that which sh...
At dawn on the 13th the Carnatic entered the port of Yokohama. This is an important port of call in the Pacific, where all the mail-steamer...
The storm burst upon us six years ago now. As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpit...
Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some time...
'That WAS a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existen...
But to my astonishment I discovered that with death staring him in the face Abner Perry was transformed into a new being. From his lips the...
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