The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.

Now bear in mind there are no clap traps nor inconvenient and cumbersome triggery about all this, simply an inch hoop iron with saw-tooth notches cut 1½ inches apart and a frame made bevel edged all the entire length on the under side; […]

When we get them off their guard we have got to paint that red 'T' the greeniest green that ever came out of a greenhouse.

Is that old Mercedes on the forecourt a runner? / No, it has no gearbox.