She had been to her Great-Aunt Willoughby’s before, and she knew exactly what to expect. She would be asked about her lessons, and how many marks she had, and whether she had been a good girl. I can’t...
And where are you going?I dunno, said the Spangled Boy. I'm running from, not to.Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5.
There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done
There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
He said that his eyes were red because he had a cold.
Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof.
Chapter9
And it's no use putting her on her honour, because——''Because she hasn't any,' Philip finished.'I wouldn't say that,' said the parrot, 'of anybody. I'd only say we haven't come across it.
Grown-up people find it difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they tell y...
It was to keep it whole.
Oh! said Roberta, drawing a long breath; it was like a great dragon tearing by. Did you feel it fan us with its hot wings? I suppose a dragon's lair might look very like that tunnel from the outside,...
But it’s raining cats and dogs,’ said Jane.
Minutes,
Even the most careful persons make mistakes sometimes—and she must have taken the wrong omnibus, or this story could never have happened, and where should we all have been then?
I've not got much money, but I've got heaps of ideas.
Even the most careful persons make mistakes sometimes—and she must have taken the wrong omnibus, or this story could never have happened, and where should we all have been then? This shows you that ev...
This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus the sad days passed slowly by'--or 'the years rolled on their weary course'...
Did it really,
Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of thi...