"The reader will understand, ere he close this narrative, my reason for concealing all clue to the district of which I…"

"...to my infinite surprise, streamed upward a steady brilliant light... As I drew nearer and nearer to the light, the…"

"The world without a sun was bright and warm as an Italian landscape at noon, but the air less oppressive, the heat so…"

"Its chief covering seemed to me to be composed of large wings folded over its breast and reaching to its knees; the r…"

"But the face! it was that which inspired my awe and my terror... The face was beardless; but a nameless something in …"

"A voice accosted me — a very quiet and very musical key of voice—in a language of which I could not understand a word…"

"The stranger... surveyed me with an eye that seemed to read to the very depths of my heart. He then placed his left h…"

"I recognised at once the difference between the two sexes, though the two females were of taller stature and ampler p…"

"My guide uttered a few words, on which all the persons seated rose, and with that peculiar mildness of look and manne…"

"I am a native of _____, in the United States of America... My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being l…"