Mrs. John Forder had no premonition of evil. When she heard the hall clock strike nine she was blithely singing about the house as she...

The young naval officer came into this world with two eyes and two arms; he left it with but one of each--nevertheless the remaining e...

It is a bad thing for a man to die with an unsatisfied thirst for revenge parching his soul. David Allen died, cursing Bernard Heaton ...

The Monarch in the Arabian story had an ointment which, put upon the right eye, enabled him to see through the walls of houses. If the...

Prince Padema sat desolately on his lofty balcony at Florence, and cursed things generally. Fate had indeed dealt hardly with the youn...

If you grind castor sugar with an equal quantity of chlorate of potash, the result is an innocent-looking white compound, sweet to the...

"Which--life or death? Tis a gambler's chance! Yet, unconcerned, we spin and dance, On the brittle thread of circumstance."...

"O Unseen Hand that ever makes and deals us, And plays our game! That now obscures and then to light reveals us, Serves blanks of ...

"The quick must haste to vengeance taste, For time is on his head; But he can wait at the door of fate, Though the stay be long an...

Hickory Sam needed but one quality to be perfect. He should have been an arrant coward. He was a blustering braggart, always boasting ...

"O Mother-nature, kind in touch and tone. Act as we may, thou clearest to thine own" I don't know that I should tell ...

Eugene Caspilier sat at one of the metal tables of the Cafe Egalite, allowing the water from the carafe to filter slowly through a lum...

There is no question about it, Tina Lenz was a flirt, as she had a perfect right to be, living as she did on the romantic shores of Co...

Even a stranger to the big town walking for the first time through London, sees on the sides of the houses many names with which he ha...

"Ye can play yer jokes on Nature, An' play 'em slick, She'll grin a grin, but, landsakes, friend, Look out fer the kic...

"And Woman, wit a flaming torch Sings heedless, in a powder-- Her careless smiles they warp and scorch Man's heart, as fire th...

A little more and Jean Rasteaux would have been a giant. Brittany men are small as a rule, but Jean was an exception. He was a powerfu...

"Come hop, come skip, fair children all, Old Father Time is in the hall. He'll take you on his knee, and stroke Your golden ha...

"The well-sworn Lie, franked to the world with all The circumstance of proof, Cringes abashed, and sneaks along the wall At the fi...

Every fortress has one traitor within its walls; the Schloss Eltz had two. In this, curiously enough, lay its salvation; for as some E...