From Carlie Sorosiak's Leonard (My Life As a Cat)
“When traveling through Washington, DC, one expects to see a few snakes in human clothing.”
From Rick Riordan’s The Trials of Apollo: The Tower of Nero
“‘We would not be in this deplorable situation,’ declares the younger and taller of the two men in the small club-room, ‘if you had not tried to bully her into boarding school!'”
From Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
“The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.”
From Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House: On the Banks of Plum Creek