[T]he women do the hardest work—carry hods of mortar, unload vessels, drive oxen, &c. …

Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.

Old guy downstairs, with long hair and a gimpy leg, handed me this yere and gimme fi' cents to fetch it up here to you, stated the messenger.

And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thence, / The smoke forth threw