Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:humorousnesses.

The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.

Some swains have sown before: but most have found A husky harvest from the grudging ground.