He did not apologize for it, nor make it a handmaid to something else, nor attempt to prove its practical value by an appeal to commercial motives, nor, in short give any of the thousand bad reasons by which stupid people habitually misrecommend good things.

When you angle for a trout, you are to do it as deep, that is, as near to the bottom as you can, provided your bait do not drag, although a trout will sometimes take it in that posture: if for a grayling, you are then to fish further from the buttom, it being a fish that usually swims nearer to the middle of the water, and lies always loose; or, however, is more apt to raise than trout, and more inclined to raise than to descend, even to a groundling.

A Chinese Wei Chi Club was first set up by Chen Li-fu, advisor to the President, in Chungching, Szechwan Province, during the Second World War, and the club was reactivated in Taiwan in 1953.

The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe.