More from Arthur Ransome

  1. 'Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,'
  2. Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall.
  3. When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
  4. A pigeon a day keeps the natives away
  5. They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.
  6. Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.
  7. A lot of things were lucky,' said Daddy, and suddenly, while they were walking along, brought his hand down on John's shoulder and gave it …
  8. Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to…

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