He paused, grimly regarding it, while a dash of pleased coxcombry seemed to mingle with the otherwise savage satisfaction expressed in his face.

New street names cannot cause confusion with existing streets, nor is it any longer permitted to debaptize parts of streets in order to give them new names […]

I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.

They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.