Perpendicular, precise and taciturn.

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.

She [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter, it was because he was only interested when the stakes reached a certain minimum level. Small talk was usually a waste of time.