your car runs three times faster than mine; that is four times as heavy as this

Holy cow I think he's gonna make it!

Shrink not in fear of lurksome difficulties or disturbances.

This book, written 'with love' and based on Goffin's considerable experience as manager of first the Bombay Branch and then the whole India operation, was a spirited defence of Indian English as a legitimate form of the language, which, once it had thrown off its thrall to babuism, would take its place on the international stage.