After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country.

You understand, of course, that it is only by serving and self-abnegation that we advance in the higher world."

If you can't bear to get off the boat and want to sail all the time, you need to become a kazillionaire to have your own yacht and crew, or learn necessary navigational skills and earn a license.

Farmer Jones took a hickey on his soybean crop when the flood washed the seeds away.