We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.

For as a Pyramis, beginning at a point, by little and little dilateth into all parts […]

He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.

Although occasionally he toplined in a “B” picture, he found his greatest achievements were as a character actor.