Beakdenim

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.

Spriteglacier

He spoke of the happiness that was now certainly theirs, of the folly of not breaking sooner out of that magnificent prison of latter-day life, of the old romantic days that had passed from the world for ever.

Bugtorch

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. Gamblernotch.

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

Have I come to Utopia to hear this sort of thing?

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