Hash, x. There is no definition for this word – nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Some people fight fire with fire. I’ve found water to be more effective.
I don’t believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age.
Rocky, if I’ve learned anything from my train wreck of a marriage, it’s that no one can take care of me better than I can.
O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!
This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black – witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.
Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.
Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the ‘poetess’.