“Every dam' thing about Jane [Austen] is remarkable to a pukka Janeite!”

Alberta is more like a man's name than any other name that comes from a men's, more than Georgianna which is just like a magnolia blossom or Henrietta which most people change to Etta or Geraldine which nobody ever thinks of coming from a man's Irish name like Gerald.

Impossible's breakthrough was in discovering that meat's essence comes from heme—the iron-rich molecule in blood that carries oxygen and is responsible for the deep-red color.

an act of some kind of woulding or appetite, and that is constantly twofold to the same matter; the flesh hath one woulding, and the spirit hath another