"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge..."
Source: Modern Short Stories (1929); Database - Literature: LitFinder (Gale)
"Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death..."
Source: Introduction to Literature-3 Lumen (Libre Texts)
"The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind."
Source: Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature (Ringo and Kashyap) (Libre Texts)
Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk bare-head in the hot sun...
Source: New Yorker Magazine (online) June 19, 1978.
"Earl Ober was between jobs as a salesman but Doreen, his wife, had gone to work nights as a waitress at a twenty-four hour coffee shop at the edge of town..."
Source: Poetry and Short Story Reference Center (EBSCO)
"At first. Sawtooth thought it was a damn fool program. All of the residents at the Out to Sea Retirement Community got letters about it in their mail buckets..."
Source: Poetry and Short Story Reference Center (EBSCO) PDF Link.
Novel (Full Text): Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer...."
Source: Database - Literature: LitFinder (Gale)
"They were up on a picnic table at that park by the lake, by the edge of the lake, with part of a downed tree in the shallows half hidden by the bank.."
Source: New Yorker (online) January 28, 2007
