"And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked." (The Count of Monte Christo, Alexandre Dumas)
"The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice to be an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden...." (Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll)