Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.