It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)
Each found her greatest safety in silence.
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.