Lucretius versus the Lake Poets ' Nature I loved ; and next to Nature , Art . ' Dean , adult education may seem silly . What of it though ? I got some willy - nilly The other evening at your college deanery . And grateful for it ( Let's not be facetious!)[…]

Shiver me sails an' rot me timbers, fry me barnacles, scrape me keel, an' all that nautical jimjam.

He turned toward the door, plunged forward, fell unconscious. . . . When he came to his senses he was in his bed—comfortable, weak, lazy.

I have been called a handmaiden, a “pick me” girl, and been accused of vying for male attention.