1 The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact.
2 On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a great measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
3 It was, in fact, a sledge, like that we had seen before, which had drifted towards us in the night on a large fragment of ice.
4 Several strange facts combined against her, which might have staggered anyone who had not such proof of her innocence as I had.
5 I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm.
6 Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science.
7 They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names and arrange in connected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light.
8 No one did at first; but several circumstances came out, that have almost forced conviction upon us; and her own behaviour has been so confused, as to add to the evidence of facts a weight that, I fear, leaves no hope for doubt.
9 I left the house, the horrid scene of the last night's contention, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regarded as an insuperable barrier between me and my fellow creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me.