"I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything."
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"Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week."
"If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity."
"Dirty pony, I can't wait to hose you down."
"I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate."
"I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony."
"First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!"
"a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind."