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

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.

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

Perpendicular, precise and taciturn.

I am still in shock to think that so much money is being put into West Indies cricket.