Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation.

A straw tick was as important to a bed as the feather. A feather bed was good forever, but the life of a straw tick was from thrashing to thrashing.

For goodness sake, will you stop keeping on about it!

The tender foxling, not arrived at the maturity of slyness, who never tasted chicken of his own stealing, shall take him without a ruffle of his plumage — only by pronouncing its dingy brown to be rich crimson.