I should like to say more about my bedside friends-strapping George Borrow sitting with Petulengro's sister under the hedge or fighting the Flaming Tinman; the dear little Boston doctor who talks so chirpily over the Breakfast Table; the Compleat Angler that takes you out into an eternal May morning, and Sainte-Beuve whom I have found a first-rate bedside talker.
"Pebbles on the Shore"
Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)
There was a brief silence, then chirpily came the answer.
"The Bars of Iron"
Ethel May Dell
If men in the twelfth century had been told that the lightning had been driven for leagues underground, and had dragged at its destroying tail loads of laughing human beings, and if they had then been told that the people alluded to this pulverising portent chirpily as "The Twopenny Tube," they would have called down the fire of Heaven on us as a race of half-witted atheists.
"Varied Types"
G. K. Chesterton