So soon as he got into the grave, he struck his pikestaff forcibly down; it encountered resistance in its descent

‘He had an inflexible will beneath all that oily kindness which passed for spiritual […] ’

My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock.

I can't talk to him about the accident; he just shuts down anytime I try.