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...

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 ...

The storm burst upon us six years ago now. As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpit...

"Did I not tell you that we of the ruling class owned all the land, all the forest, everything? Any food-getter who would not get food...

So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large eyes full of tears, but said nothing. 'This here young lady,' s...

Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; b...

The old man peered from under his green leaf at the danger, and stood as quietly as the boy. For a few seconds this mutual scrutinizing we...

At the next halt Hooja the Sly One managed to find enough slack chain to permit him to worm himself back quite close to Dian. We were all s...

Without saying a word, Queequeg, in his wild sort of way, jumped upon the bulwarks, from thence into the bows of one of the whale-boats hang...