I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
I have a bad memory for facts.
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.