I have been here a fortnight and I think I shall be here fifteen or twenty days longer, although I do not very much like the place, for this puddling in a tub continually is no charm to me.

-Perth,James, 4th Earl of
OnVenice. Collected in Letters to his sister the Countess of Erroll, and other members of his family.

I can't see that she could have found anything nastier to say if she'd thought it out with both hands fora fortnight.

-Sayers, Dorothy L(eigh)
  'Prothalamion'.