The editor writes most charmingly of country life in his easiest chair.
Church choirs are always at sixes and sevens. One day of harmony and six of discord.
A young widow's sorrow for her husband is a phantom minnow—looks genuine but hides the hook.
While the bankrupt tradesman rides in his carriage, his honest competitor is in the back yard sawing wood.
The uglier a woman's face, the nearer to her chin is the hem of her bathing skirt, no doubt to hide her blushes.