Stories of Ships and the Sea Little Blue Book # 1169

Jack London

Chapter I. Into the Primitive "Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain."

Jack London

PART I CHAPTER I--THE TRAIL OF THE MEAT Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

Jack London

CHAPTER I The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap.

Jack London

FOREWORD It cannot be said that the Everhard Manuscript is an important historical document.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.