Italians, French, Spaniards do it, if you will, and women of most nations.

An Englishman's instinct is to strike and not to stab.
George Higgins or Lord Arthur Skelmerton would have knocked their victim down; the woman only would lie in wait till the enemy's back was turned.
She knows her weakness, and she does not mean to miss.
"Think it over.

There is not one flaw in my argument, but the police never thought the matter out--perhaps in this case it was as well." He had gone and left Miss Polly Burton still staring at the photograph of a pretty, gentle-looking woman, with a decided, wilful curve round the mouth, and a strange, unaccountable look in the large pathetic eyes; and the little journalist felt quite thankful that in this case the murder of Charles Lavender the bookmaker--cowardly, wicked as it was--had remained a mystery to the police and the public..