I am much quicker at writing than typing and I make many more typos than I do writos.

The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.

I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale.

She had introduced herself to an elderly, shapeless secretary in the front office, but wasn't convinced that the woman had heard her.