I thought I'd try my hand at woodworking, until I saw how much the tools cost.

'My wife always takes a sleeping draught when travelling by train. She took her usual dose of trional.'

There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].

The territory should be small enough to be surveyed in its entirety from a hilltop.