“Here are some pretty Easter daisies,” he said, “and enough of them to furnish oracles to all the amorous maids in the place.”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

She had heard the bantering words of the man when they started, and they sent a chill through her as she pictured endless dangers, though at the same time she mentally agreed with her husband that solitude would be far preferable to living among such neighbours as the people at the port.
— from The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range by George Manville Fenn

"Here are some pretty Easter daisies," he said, "and enough of them to furnish oracles to all the amorous maids in the place."
— from Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gustave Flaubert

“Mebbe if I was to hear a sermon preached every day in the week I'd get some piouser myself.
— from An Alabaster Box by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

"Once upon a time there was a great dragon with seven heads, and he ate seven princesses every day for dinner. . . ."
— from The Treasure of the Isle of Mist by W. W. (William Woodthorpe) Tarn