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

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

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.

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

Perpendicular, precise and taciturn.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting