Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strik….

Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had not returned that diamon….

A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might p….

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes ev….

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig….

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!.

The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocul….

In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he poured it out so superbly..

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple..

His wardrobe was extensive-very extensive-not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the ….

... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenie….

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company..

Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (….

There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year tha….

Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief i….

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and b….

She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all..

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, an….

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclea….

Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoe….

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that..