The baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems no harm in him.

[Schroeder to Charlie Brown:] Do you realize that we have the losingest team in the history of baseball?

A cutpurse of the empire and the rule

She remembered, when a girl, seeing a short poem written by the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, for which her papa gave three guineas; she did not suppose there was a single copy sold in the city or the country, so that her grace had really the satisfaction of knowing that her beautiful hotpressed folio was opened alone by courtly hands.