Mark Twain, Choice Works.
FINE lady is like a cat; when young, the most gamesome and lively of all creatures—when old, the most melancholy.
Alexander Pope, in Locker's Patchwork.
IS the voice of the lobster; I heard him declare
"You have baked me quite brown, I must sugar my hair."
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
OOR relations are undeniably irritating—their existence is so entirely uncalled for on our part, and they are almost always very faulty people.