Then they can be knocked over with a stick, and, in consequence, many poor young robins go into potpies down here.
— from The Young Wireless Operator—Afloat Or, How Roy Mercer Won His Spurs in the Merchant Marine by Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss
There is no lack of color and form there, I assure you, but after all I would prefer your rose garden in June."
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe
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