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

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

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

The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. "Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you seem to lose some of it. I expect it must be the change in your expression." Startled, Tiffany flew to gaze anxiously into the ornate looking-glass which hung above the fireplace. "Do I?" she asked naively. "Really do I, Ancilla?" "Yes, decidedly," replied Miss Trent, perjuring her soul without the least hesitation.

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!