"It's a thing I can't bear to think of to this day." Surely the tears stood in her eyes?
"That's the painful thing about pets," said Mr.Dalloway; "they die.

The first sorrow I can remember was for the death of a dormouse.

I regret to say that I sat upon it.

Still, that didn't make one any the less sorry.
Here lies the duck that Samuel Johnson sat on, eh?
I was big for my age." "Then we had canaries," he continued, "a pair of ring-doves, a lemur, and at one time a martin." "Did you live in the country ?" Rachel asked him.
"We lived in the country for six months of the year.

When I say 'we' I mean four sisters, a brother, and myself.