I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home.

The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.

To make such an expensive commitment without properly thinking about how best to help travellers on low incomes shows that the policy was developed on the hoof.

an e-mail blast; a fax blast