Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?
The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!