I say, old Jarvis keeps a regular little store of dainties there.
— from Abington Abbey: A Novel by Archibald Marshall
Then—soft as a rattle a-counting her seeds In the midst of a tangle of withered-up weeds— Came a faint, faint knocking, a rustle like silk, And a breath at the keyhole as soft as milk— Still as the flit of a moth.
— from Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter De la Mare
He prints a map showing the road passing, all on its right hand as it goes south, the villages of “Kempton,” Chinner, Oakley, Crowell Kingston, Aston Rowant, Lewkner, Sherborne, Watlington, the Britwells, Ewelme, Croamish Gifford, Nuneham, Warren, Mungewell, the three Stokes, and then south of Goring Church.
— from The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas
This I witnessed on observing a bitch dog kill a rather large snake; in which act two points beside the odour effused were notable.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) by Various
More commonly known as R. L. Stevenson.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson
The fiction was mainly French, modern English novels commending themselves little to his liking, though he was among the earliest and steadiest, if also among the more discriminating, admirers of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson's Prince Otto had a place with his favourite books.
— from The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
He might keep a rope ladder stored inside, open the back door, throw out his ladder to a friend and by some trick arrangement could detach the ladder and allow the door to swing to again.”
— from The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace
A Tahitian chief became so smitten with Stevenson's charms that he assumed Stevenson's name; in exchange Stevenson took the name of the chief, and in one of his letters signs himself, "Teritera, which he was previously known as Robert Louis Stevenson.
— from Fact and Fable in Psychology by Joseph Jastrow
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