There it was Razumov who had the upper hand, in a composed sense of his own superiority.

It may last a week at the outside.

The couple strolled down the sidewalk, hand in hand.

By night we dragg'd her to the college tower / From her warm bed, and up the corkscrew stair / With hand and rope we haled the groaning sow, / And on the leads we kept her till she pigg'd.