A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.