“We have rather too few men just now,” said : Well—that very day—there was a fine : Smith, “but there being no enemy on the coast, we let most of the troops go home for a few days; but by day after to-morrow we shall be strong-handed enough for a whole man-of-war's crew."

[…] I'd come home from my first day at Brookbank Hall, a private girls' school, sobbed for hours, and offered to perform Cinderellaesque chores for the rest of my childhood if my parents would transfer me back to Rose Park Elementary.

Pashmina was invented more than four hundred years ago when Nur Jaban, wife of the Emperor Jehangir, asked her weavers to present a woolen fabric that was as light as a cloud but as warm as a tender embrace.

Can feeble words thy vivid colours paint, / Or ſhow the ſweets which inexhauſtive flow?