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He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Elizabeth... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!

Sylvia Townsend Warner

The blackthorn blossoms are coming out, all along the lane. The buds seem to be frowning on the bough as the winds bang them. They look as furious as smacked kittens, they lower. I went to feed Mrs. H.E's. hens this afternoon... The hens looked much too large for the garden; they seemed to be spreading as one looked at them, like ink-blots.

Sylvia Townsend Warner