Dogs are all, more or less, physiognomists, and commonly pretty determined aristocrats, fond of the fine and averse to the shabby, distinguishing, with a nice accuracy, the master castes from the pariahs of the world. |
Perpendicular, precise and taciturn. |
She [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers. |
She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever. |
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. |