When I was young I used to love Michael Rosen. Don’t put mustard in the custard and lots of silly ones like that. I also remember that there was a darker poem in one of the poem compilation books set on the underground about a boy who fell between the tracks and couldn’t get back up. The train wa...
In "In the Midst of Alarms" (1894) by Robert Barr, a blacksmith, Macdonald, did an embarrassing trick to break the conceit of his New Yorker client in front of the crowd in his smithy, but he failed
Macdonald saw there was no triumph over him among his crowd, for they all evidently felt as much ...
According to the author:
I invented the names. They weren't meant to represent those specific restaurants (which are, in any case, American not Canadian) but I see you do understand the kind of fast food chain I was invoking.
And also:
I just had a look at the link. You might tell them that it...
In the opening chapter of Thomas Hardy's "The Withered Arm", the following passage is found (emphasis mine):
The discussion waxed so warm that the purr of the milk streams became jerky, till a voice from another cow's belly cried with authority, "Now then, what the Turk do it matter to us about ...
