Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ever so long ago Richard Vaux was a marvellously handsome and fascinating young man. He went to Europe, and being possessed of large means had access to the best society, and even attracted the notice of the young Queen of England, who had but then just come to the throne. It is said - the story being told to me by persons high in authority in England - that her heart's first affections were given to Richard Vaux of Quaker City, and she would have married him if she had been allowed, but state reasons prevailed to deter her. The Queen...
...that my ears, which nature erected at perfectly true right-angles with my head, lay back upon it as flat as if naturally coalescent. I shrieked at the flying steed that perhaps he had better save himself a little. Vain, futile words! they never reached his ears till he went round the track and met them on the other side. He heeded not, nor heard; he merely went, he simply hummed, and I hung on to the dash-board with my teeth...
After leaving the philosopher, Yung went directly home. His thoughts were full of Loe, and he yearned for the time when he could see her alone; yet, in his diffidence, he also dreaded it. With Loe in his mind, he made his preparations for dinner; and as he laid out the freshly caught trout and the delicious fruits, he said, "Would she were here to share them...
...point Henry's little sister Lulu came running in with two seedcakes and a lump of sugar for Henry to carry in his pocket to sustain him on his weary journey; which thoughtfulness so affected the boy that with streaming eyes he kissed these dear ones good-by, and went out alone into the great forest...
...power of turning all who displeased him into ice. He dwelt in the innermost secret chamber of the castle. The second dragon was Din, whose voice was louder than thunder and deafened any mortal in his presence. This Din was so fearful a dragon that his slave Subdin usually went before him and suffered no one to approach; and he who after seeing Subdin drew near to Din was reckoned the most rash of mortals. The fourth dragon was a white dragon, known as Rejistrah: and there was a strange legend about him, that he had once been...