After this answer, the guide brought the elephant out of the dense thicket, and jumped on his neck. But at the moment that he was going to start him off by a peculiar whistle, Mr Fogg stopped him and, addressing Sir Francis Cromarty, said, ‘If we could save this woman!’
‘Save this woman, Mr Fogg!’ [...]

Parker County, beautiful, picturesque Parker County, located in the North Central Section of the State. Certainly no where in all Texas, in historic Texas, and, perhaps, seldom in the Nation can be found a county with a more colorful history and historical background and a county more lavish in material things that were so [...]

‘Why, you must be trying to make us laugh!’ said Agnese.
‘That’s true enough; for it seems to me that the season for laughter is with us now, and none too soon at that. We’ve seen some ugly times, my dear young people, ugly times in plenty…we may fairly hope for better things during the [...]

“Gallants of England,” said Front-de-Bœuf, “how relish ye your entertainment at Torquilstone? Are ye yet aware what your surquedy and outrecuidance merit, for scoffing at the entertainment of a prince of the house of Anjou? Have ye forgotten how ye requited the unmerited hospitality of the royal John?  An ye pay not the [...]

‘What about me? What am I supposed to have learned? I didn’t go out of my way to look for trouble; troubles came to look for me…Unless you’d like to say,’ she added with her sweet and gentle smile, ‘that I did make a mistake after all - the mistake of being fond [...]