She drank gin and tonic by preference.

His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus.

One day modi mother and unmothered. True twinnes in birth and death ; together drown in this sad stream.

...the walls were covered with paper, whose original colour and pattern had long since merged in a dingy brown; over this were hung up some unframed drawings, and some shelves on which were ranged all the old school books, grammars, Pinnock's catechisms, and one or two French novels that had belonged to a former governess.