Orlando only gathered that it was harder to sell than prose, and though the lines were shorter took longer in the writing.

Never have I seen my own skin (here she laid her hand on her knee) look to such advantage as now.

And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it.

Besides, everyone in the prison, down to the humblest warder, had grown used to Alyosha.

We might find in your lodgings to-morrow the shirt or whatever it is from which you tore the rag.

So much money — two hundred roubles!

The maids confessed that they had gone to a party and that the street door had been left open till they returned.

Lennie's eyes centered and grew quiet, and mad.

I won't take no whuppin ', cryin' an 'a-beggin' .

I gave her -- and practically chucked it right in my face.

The kingfisher comes; the king— fisher comes not.

A voice drifted after him, "Denham's Denham's Denham's," the train hissed like a snake.

She fed the fire and poured cornmeal gradually into the hot water.

It was quite dark when Rakitin and Alyosha entered her rooms, yet they were not lighted up.

But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor?

I looked upon it as mine, as my own property. . ’The prosecutor looked significantly at the investigating lawyer, and had time to wink at him on the sly.

I probably would have, but she wasn't.

I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place.

I exist? ’‘ You do not exist, ’said O’Brien.

The young man wiped his greasy hands on his trousers.