Some of the shorter ones – since you expressed such unbridled enthusiasm:
Typee
- a morsel of which placed on the tongue melts like a soft smile from the lips of Beauty. (189)
- This strange superstition affords another evidence of the fact, that however ignorant man may be, he still feels within him his immortal spirit yearning after the unknown future. (205)
- It is strange how inanimate objects will twine themselves into our affections, especially in the hour of affliction. (282)
Omoo
…she gave loose to strange, hollow little notes of laughter, that sounded like the bass of a music-box, playing a lively air with the top down. (458)
Mardi
- His library was eight inches by four: Bowditch, and Hamilton Moore.(665)
- In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation. (769)
- But what knows a philosopher about women? (775)
