She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.

This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is- A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo.

Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

On se doit assemer en robes et en armes en tel maniere que li preudome de cest siecle ne dient que on en face trop, ne les joenes gens de cest siecle ne dient …

I shall wear my best black and my white alpacka coat to keep off the dust and flies replied Mr Salteena. I shall put some red ruge on my face said Ethel becaus…

All the carnall beauty of my wife, Is but skin deep.