“Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.”
Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
Source: Lirael
“Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.”
Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
“The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.”
Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat
Source: The Cat in the Hat (1957)
“The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.”
Raymond Chandler book Farewell, My Lovely
Source: Farewell, My Lovely
Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) American science fiction writer and editor
Waiting for the Olympians (p. 255)
Platinum Pohl (2005)
“A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Georgics, Book I, p. 39
Translations, The Poems of Virgil Translated Into English Prose (1872)
“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat
Source: The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
Variant: From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.
Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
“I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: Black Magic Sanction