It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.

I wish I would have played basketball when I was out. It's a lot more funner.

He was amused to note the disarray of his opponents.

Grim though the economic spur may be, some scientists see a slim silver lining in the sudden newsiness of laughably large numbers.