Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with[…]on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

[S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.

Ten tonnes of rubbish have been removed by Network Rail from a trackside fly-tipping hotspot north of the station.

I shall […] study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman.