I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

asleep to rummage in their minds

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.