I enjoy maritime activities such as yachting and deep sea diving.

Aristotle also throws in a dubious etymological argument: this is why it has the name ‘money’ (nomisma)—because it exists not by nature but by law (nomos) and it is in our power to change it and make it useless. (Nicomachean Ethics 1133a30-31)

The island rang, as yet, with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches.

There were four of us, my friend the captain, myself, an old sportsman from Sognedale, called Peter Sandaker, and a smart boy, who had charge of two brace of hounds.