Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children.

With an area of 3367 square miles [Corsica] is only a sixty-oneth of the area of France and four thirty-thirds of that of Italy.

These Querquetulanae have an apparent, or barely possible, survival in the spirits called Querkeln in Bavaria.

“I do not comprehend the meaning of the word. But this I can say, that if he ever was a beau before he married, he is one still, for there is not the smallest alteration in him.” “Oh! dear! one never thinks of married mens’ being beaux—they have something else to do.”