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Oliver Smith
- LiteratureThe Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. “Augrh!” said Father Wolf. “It is time to hunt again.”
He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.”
- LiteratureThe War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
- LiteratureThe Iliad by Homer
Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.
- LiteratureThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair
It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas.
The occasion rested heavily upon Marija’s broad shoulders—it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice, Marija was too eager to see that others conformed to the proprieties to consider them herself.
- LiteratureThe Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
"To be sure they could," cried the Scarecrow. "Why didn't we think of that before?"
Dorothy blew the little whistle she had always carried about her neck since the Queen of the Mice had given it to her. In a few minutes they heard the pattering of tiny feet, and many of the small gray mice came charging up to her. Among them was the Queen herself, who asked, in her squeaky little voice:
"What can I do for my friends?"
- LiteratureThe Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
"You see," said the Cowardly Lion, with a whimper, "I haven't the courage to keep tramping forever, without getting anywhere at all."
Then Dorothy lost heart. She sat down on the grass and looked at her companions, and they sat down and looked at her, and Toto found that for the first time in his life he was too tired to chase a butterfly that flew past his head. So he put out his tongue and panted and looked at Dorothy as if to ask what they should do next.
"Suppose we call the field mice," she suggested. "They could probably tell us the way to the Emerald City."
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
"Why," replied Passepartout, a little vexed that his nationality should cause this question, "we Frenchmen know how to make grimaces, it is true but not any better than the Americans do."
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
"Then you ought to know how to make grimaces?"
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
"So I can be of no use to you?" "None." "The devil! I should so like to cross the Pacific with you!"
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
"Would you like a servant, sir?" asked Passepartout. "A servant!" cried Mr. Batulcar, caressing the thick grey beard which hung from his chin.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
This was the Honourable William Batulcar's establishment. That gentleman was a sort of Barnum, the director of a troupe of mountebanks, jugglers, clowns, acrobats, equilibrists, and gymnasts, who, according to the placard, was giving his last performances before leaving the Empire of the Sun for the States of the Union.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
He followed the clown, and soon found himself once more in the Japanese quarter.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
"The United States!" said Passepartout; "that's just what I want!"
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
What references could he give? As he was reflecting in this wise, his eyes fell upon an immense placard which a sort of clown was carrying through the streets.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
What need would they have of a cook or servant on an American steamer, and what confidence would they put in him, dressed as he was?
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
"Now," thought he, when he had eaten heartily, "I mustn't lose my head. I can't sell this costume again for one still more Japanese.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
A locomotive, moving on the rails laid down the evening before, brought the rails to be laid on the morrow, and advanced upon them as fast as they were put in position.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
He saw it all now.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
Passepartout had for an instant feared that he was on the wrong boat; but, though he was really on the Carnatic, his master was not there.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
It was supplied with saloon cars, balcony cars, restaurants, and smoking-cars; theatre cars alone were wanting, and they will have these some day.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
These platforms were found throughout the train, and the passengers were able to pass from one end of the train to the other.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
It was supplied with two rows of seats, perpendicular to the direction of the train on either side of an aisle which conducted to the front and rear platforms.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
The car which he occupied was a sort of long omnibus on eight wheels, and with no compartments in the interior.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
A locomotive, racing on the rails laid down the evening before, brought the rails to be laid on the morrow, and advanced upon them as fast as they were put in position.
- LiteratureAround the World in Eighty Days
The road grew, on the prairies, a mile and a half a day.
