The train had an excellent whistle which sent me, just as Sinatra sends the bobby-sockers.

Students who just had a 90-minute (smoke-free) class were either asked to participate in our study before or after they had their postclass cigarette.

a clear ground whereupon to preach the gospel with an unrecoiling heart

A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.