You are the very embodiment of beauty.

'You're sure your dad won't come home?' she said. 'He won't,' he said, though his father was a law unto himself and couldn't be trusted to follow reason.

It [a dormouse] dipped its brushy tail (somewhat resembling that of a fox) into the dish, and carried the milk in this manner to the mouth.

He was wearing women’s clothes before he had the surgery; then, he actually became a transsexual, and they (amazingly) stayed together.