The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.

After finishing second-bottom in the table, United were relegated from the division.

We walked out on to a balcony, looking down on the bright green fields, the grey-blue river lined with viridian poplars, and the red earth paths where the peasants were driving their animals […]

I remember his wail at the meeting, which began: 'In fifty years experience of scientific intercourse----' It quite broke the old man up.