How many girls’ schools have expelled you?''This is number six,' Emma volunteered.' Papa, is Maria going to Paris? Is she?''No, Emma, nor anywhere else on the Continent. But she is going _somewhere_, to be sure.

I spent the next few minutes ducking as these objects flew past my head: a leg of mutton, a side of beef, a tart oozing with pear, and a line of pewter plates. When I could, I withdrew my new blade, seeing through flying foodstuffs that my friends were likewise assailed. Gad, poor devil, took on such a quantity of flour he looked fit for the roasting pan!

Would it kill you,” she (the Shinx) called, “to maybe one time bring a ram’s head?

Would it kill you,” she [the Sphinx] called, “to maybe one time bring a ram’s head?

This way,' Sid whispered, leading her to a silver pole stretching up past their view. He grasped it with four taloned claws, inching his way up.'What do I look like, a fireman?' Mattie hissed.

Flattery is the highest form of praise." - Carnatus

The outdoors is best viewed from inside.

It was all up to a roll of the metastasizing dice.

After a nine-headed Hydra, the ACT was kind of a letdown.