Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a pri...
Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.
It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.
His feet where retarded.
He was submitting, submitting because of his fathers, bending his mind in a most perfect slavery to this conflagration.
He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been very proper and just. It had been necessary for him to swallow swords that he might have a better...
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep.War is kind.Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little sou...
The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.
Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles. Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he...
It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
IVYes, I have a thousand tongues,And nine and nighty-nine lie.Though I strive to use the one,
As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
A man said to the universe: Sir I exist! However, replied the universe, The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.
A learned man came to me once.He said, I know the way, -- come.And I was overjoyed at this.Together we hastened.Soon, too soon, were weWhere my eyes were useless,And I knew not the ways of my feet.I c...
The correspondent wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it amusing to row a boat. It was not an amusement; it was a diabolical punishment, and eve...
He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effectiv...
A MAN FEAREDA man feared that he might find an assassin;
We picture the world as thick with conquering and elate humanity, but here, with the bugles of the tempest peeling, it was hard to imagine a peopled earth. One viewed the existence of man then as a ma...
The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle.