When those combine wheels stops turnin' And the hard days work is done Theres a pub around the corner It's the place we 'ave our fun

The steel workers and electricians went on strike, halting construction.

The party leader's speech was all talk.

These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.