Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
Romance at short notice was her speciality.
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.