"[T]he Australian black, without exception, nurtures, one might almost say from the cradle to the grave, an intense ha…"

"Savage and objectionable as the is, it has played an important part in the past of the Australian race, for it tended…"

"where George II died and where Queen Victoria was born is still used as apartments for the sovereign's relatives: Pri…"

"proposed as the chief gardener and William Brown as his assistant. Nelson had already 'sailed round the world in my s…"

"On 1 October 1918, when only sixteen, my father rode into Damascus with the , hours ahead of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence …"

"There is a that I will probably never send. I would not dare to. It is a cross of Jesus drawn in fresh blood from an …"

"... In 1961 she trained as a newspaper reporter and was sent to London to work for the Murdoch papers on . She filed …"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."