He could have assigned this part of the job to another, but it was not in his conception of his duties to do so. The shorter the chain, the less chan… - Michael Kurland

The Duchess of Cumberland smiled at the little sorcerer. “Really, Master Dandro,” she said. “That’s certainly an orthodox view.”
Master Dandro turned to her and smiled a rabbity smile. “Orthodoxy is my only doxy,” he said.

An amphibophile is the sort of girl who goes around kissing princes in the hope that one of them will turn into a frog.

The trains take us anywhere we want on earth. They’re very fast and dependable. If I remember from history we tried personal mechanical vehicles for a short time, but gave them up as a bad idea. They smell up the road, take up too much room, caused many accidents and just proved a general nuisance.