Although patchworked and sagging, the roof proved impervious to the weather.

Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions and notions of spirits and goblins […] in the dark.

a clenched fist

I may, therefore, venture to hope[…] and that I shall live to see a malecontent writer earnestly soliciting for the copy of a play, which he had delivered to the licenser twenty years before.