Once upon a time there were 2 names. One of them was Moira O’Neill, and the other was Nesta Shakespeare Skrine. They belonged to the same woman, and she used one of them as a pen name. Yes, her pen name was Moira O’Neill. Her given name was Nesta Shakespeare Skrine. I pause to reflect.
‘to gett away warts: take black snayles and gash and cut them with your Knife then take the liquor which comes from them and anoynt your warts with this liquor 3 or 4 times every day till all beee gone’ – from Restoration London by Liza Picard
Draped with a few dead rodents she could slip unsuspected into cucumber luncheons. This is one of the milder offerings from amazingly great and bizarre Geek Love.
From its highest crag fell a waterfall no wider than three inches, wrinkling the pool below. – from Barkskins Way to wrinkle that pool, Annie!
‘I may as well walk on down to Western,’ she said; and we began to walk on down to Western. – This noir beauty of a sentence is from ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’.
She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don’t much care about kittens. – Lady In The Lake
For the next two weeks the loon will spend the majority of his time in one of these.
Love is like a blind rhinoceros crashing around bumping into trees.
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