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With insects, out of the caterpillar comes the butterfly; with mankind it is the other way round, out of the butterfly comes the caterpillar.[1]
[Footnote 1: There is a play on words here, the Russian word for butterfly also means a woman.]
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The dogs in the house became attached not to their masters who fed and fondled them, but to the cook, a foreigner, who beat them.
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Sophie was afraid that her dog might catch cold, because of the draught.
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The soil is so good, that, were you to plant a shaft, in a year's time a cart would grow out of it.
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