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Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

It would not have been prudent to talk in daytime; and I could not have stood the excitement of that queer sense of whispering to myself.

The rush of the sailors into the seething 'tween-deck was like a splash of cold water into a boiling cauldron. The commotion sank for a moment.

...and the coal dust on his eyelids, like the black penciling of a make-up, enhanced the liquid brilliance of the whites, giving to his youthful face something of a feminine, exotic and fascinating aspect.

...and the coal dust on his eyelids, like the black penciling of a make-up, enhanced the liquid brillianceof the whites, giving to his youthful face something of a feminine, exotic and fascinatingaspect.

The China seas north and south are narrow seas. They are seas full of every-day, eloquent facts, such as islands, sand-banks, reefs, swift and changable currents- tangled facts that nevertheless speak to a seaman in clear and definite language.

An angry hug from Gaspar Ruiz was enough to crush the life out of a giant...

'...though my thoughts were of love then, and therefore enchanting, the sight of that house always affected me disagreeably, especially in the moonlight...'

There dwelt, then, in his soul no fierceness corresponding to the vigour of his body.

A revolutionary war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society.