I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding