I was chastened by the shortness of her reply.

Oban is not a terminus; its routes radiate by sea, rail and road.

the checkage of a name or of an item in a list

The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?