Prompt Attack Examples

Lo, the scarlet letter which

Well, here I am to-night, hoping for sleep, and lying like

I was much touched by their kindness. Perhaps it is because I am weak at present, and perhaps because it was on

The boys answered him phrase by phrase.

--Do you not fear that those words may be spoken to you on the day of Judgement? --What is offered me on the other hand?

chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry! His fellow student's rude humour ran like a gust through the cloister of

I see schemer in your face. Where did you break your glasses?

--It was a great day for European culture, he said, when you made up your mind to swear in yellow. They lit their cigarettes and turned to the right. After a pause

One of the first examples that he had learnt in Latin had run: INDIA MITTIT EBUR; and he recalled the shrewd northern face of the rector who had taught him to construe the Metamorphoses of

--Good morning, everybody, said

A figure was crouching before the large grate and by its leanness and greyness he knew that it was the dean of studies lighting the fire.

--That idea never occurred to me,

The instant flashed forth like a point of light and now from cloud on cloud of vague circumstance confused form was veiling softly its afterglow. O! In the virgin womb of the imagination the word was made flesh.

The consciousness of the warm sunny city outside his window and the tender tremors with which his father's voice festooned the strange sad happy air, drove off all the mists of the night's ill humour from

You're an excitable bloody man, do you know. He laughed nervously as he spoke and, looking up into

The light had waned. He could not see. Did that explain his friend's listless silence, his harsh comments, the sudden intrusions of rude speech with which he had shattered so often

Pray to our mother

He went once or twice with his mother to visit their relatives: and though they passed a jovial array of shops lit up and adorned for

--Hoho! he cried. Who is this boy? Why is he on his knees? What is your name, boy? --Fleming, sir. --Hoho,

Take no further steps. I have not seen the coroner; but I will take the responsibility.' 'Well,' thought