It takes a while to get used to the smell.

He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity.

Most of the colours called drabs appear to me the same by day-light and candle-light.

Henry S. Salt (1886-12-04) A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 64: “I may here remark in passing that Sir Henry Thompson’s reference to the Esquimaux, as an instance of a people to whom a vegetarian diet would be impossible, is not of much practical value to English readers in the elucidation of this food question…”