But should a “holy alliance of legitimates” extinguish it, it will be but for a season.

The reverend gentleman got into his gig with a slight effort, for it was high-hung, and at fifty men are not, for the most part, so lithe as they once were, especially if good living and an orderly or rather somnolent course of existence have increased their bulk, and somewhat flaccified their muscles.

I am afraid my computer will break down if I try to run it at too high a speed.

Most ship-to-ship engagements are skirmishes between patrol vessels of cruiser weight and below, with dreadnoughts and carriers only deployed in full-scale fleet actions. Battles in open space are short and often inconclusive, as the weaker opponent generally disengages.