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

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.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.