Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.

… a minded creature, but we recognize each other as same-minded and as persons who have access to their minds from a first-person perspective.

Outside there was the soft patter of summer rain and the sky was pale with the rising, cloudwashed sun.

One day of those his retirings , giving out that he was sick, his father Antigonus came on the sudden to visit him, and met a fair dainty youth coming out of his chamber.