The veil would be torn to pieces in less than a week, or would be made so transparent that any one, with half an eye,— as the saying is, though we never recollect meeting any one who only had half an eye —would be able to see through it; and if any one did take the veil, it would be because she could not get any one to marry her, or because some designing Roman Catholic priest had persuaded her, poor girl, for the sake of her fortune, to go into a convent.

Ambrosian hands

A ship before Greenwich […] shot off her ordinance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone.

[T]hey never could see the Missionaries dispose of their legs in the attitude of kneeling, or hear them begin a hymn in chorus, without bursting into roars of irrepressible laughter. It is much to be hoped that no member of this facetious tribe may ever find his way to England and get committed for contempt of Court.