A gossamer blanket of coaldust floated down like a dirty blessing and gently smothered the traffic.

There are no two ways about it. We'll have to start over from the very beginning.

During this period, the business transacted in the warehouses was altogether of a retail and miscellaneous character, buyers only being tempted to operate where parcels of goods were offered to them at prices closely approximating to jobbish transactions.

All about the tents were ferns, while the fragrant maile trailed from every tree and bush […]