There were many speculative schemes which gambled on the expectation of an individual's life, as in the tontine system, whereby all the group's contributions went to the last survivor.

Those children were growing up and I told him, “Your children never will learn to talk plainly while they live over in the back lot and listen to your yabble.”

I should probably take the bullet train, and save her the grief.

The characters of man placed in lower stations of life are more usefull, as being imitable by great numbers.