It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

I am worn to a raveling.

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.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.