He had scarcely finished, when the labourer arrived who had been sent for my ransom.

I regret very deeply to admit that some of you people only damage the good name of this country with your loose tongues! No wonder most foreigners go away with the feeling that you people are just bacchanalists!

I think he'll hear me. Yet to bite his lip / And hum at good Cominius much unhearts me.

One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.