The President of the United States shook his head with an emphasis which caused the other men gathered around the massive mahogany ...

Fancy a dingy old brick house on B— street, New York City—dusty outside and moldy in all its ragged, papered walls inside—a dreary house ...

“Her lips were silent—scarcely beat her heart, Her eyes alone proclaimed, ‘we must not part;’ Thy hope may perish, or thy friends may ...

“Has Vance returned yet?” asked Jared Whitemore, a stout, florid-complexioned man of sixty-five, opening the door of his private office ...

On the morning of the 25th day of April, 18—, the whaleship Montpelier, of New London, anchored in one of the many bays that open along ...

Three young girls, as fair as youth and beauty could make them, stood with arms twined about one another on the sands of Newport one hot ...

“Linchpin lost!—wheel off!—broke down!” In a dark little valley, lying nearly midway between Fort Sully and Deadwood, and not far from ...

"How fast the river flows! How it roars in my ears and drowns the sound of your voice, my dearest! It is bearing me away! Oh, save me! ...

The ship Maxwell, Captain Roberts, homeward bound from Australia to New York, was bowling along upon her course under full sail. It was ...

"'Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, policeman, plowboy, gentleman—' Adelaide Lefroy, lift your lovely head, my dear; you're to marry a ...

All the clocks of the great, thronged city clanged out the hour of midnight from their hoarse, brazen throats simultaneously, and as the ...

"Dead!" Leslie Noble reels backward, stunned by the shuddering horror of that one word—"Dead!" The stiff, girlish characters of the ...

A small valley cutting through a range of mountains in California—a green oasis that looked strange and picturesque in the midst of that ...

A night of storm and tempest, the wind blowing a perfect gale; and above its mad shrieking the sullen roar of the ocean, as it beat ...

The traveler who has stopped at Catskill, on his way up the Hudson, will remember that a creek of no insignificant breadth washes one ...

Uncle Ephraim Barlow, deacon of the Orthodox church in Silverton, Massachusetts, was an old-fashioned man, clinging to the old-time ...