The ball hit the fence.

Who'll buy my caller herrin'? / Cod, turbot, ling, delicious herrin', / Buy my caller herrin', / They're every one Kanucks!

The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there.

The famous nurserymen, Louden and Wise, did not consider the potato as worthy of notice in their Complete Gardener, published in 1749 ; and Bradley, who about the same time wrote so extensively on horticultural subjects, speaks of them as inferior to skirretts and radishes.