These Sunday-morning hair-cuttings were performed by Fairway; the victim sitting on a chopping-block in front of the house […] . Summer and winter the scene was the same, unless the wind were more than usually blusterous, when the stool was shifted a few feet round the corner.

Many a thoughtful man, musing over his second Martini and the evening paper, has had the uneasy feeling that 1984 was much closer.

Nay tis moſt credible, we heere receiue it, A certaintie vouch'd from our Coſin Auſtria, […]

who freights a ship to venture on the seas