The present moment had certainly inflicted on fantasy the presentment of Podson in a posture of devotion, squeezing her hand, and even the frustrations of an alarmed spinster could not defeat the up-rush of bright exciting imageries inspired by that action.

Both scary and laughable is the gargoylishness of his face.

On the other hand, evolution is not a matter of chance, even in the sense in which a game of dice is a game of chance.

It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.