Rather than such Hellenic greatness of soul, Proverbs emphasized humbleheartedness.

If there are ten horses in each race, there are 100 possible selections, and the total cost of “buying the rack” would be $200.

They now began by a change of diet and other precautions to prepare themselves to encounter the torrefaction of a tropical climate, and in somewhat more than a fortnight arrived in Carlisle Bay in the island of Barbadoes, which was appointed the general rendezvous of the expedition.

To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.