I can find marsh violets an inch high, pale pink and lace white with stamens as fine as fishing line and tiny petals stained by blood-dark veins.

I wish you had commended the Negro sit-inner and demonstrators for their sublime courage.

... it is also true that the policy of nations, or the bounty of individuals, formerly did much to counteract the effect of this limitation of competition, by offering eleemosynary instruction to a much larger class of persons than could have obtained the same advantages by paying their price.

Sometimes the Princess would appear with the lead and take one of the others out, often Maisie, and I would hate whoever had gone in my place, filled to biting-point with envy that built up and built up in the long wait imagining someone else's pleasure.