People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!

Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.