These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.

‘Where's your father hiding?’ She rubbed the rough-textured skin, trying to warm it. ‘If he thinks he's entertaining us, he's upter.’

We are likewise ready to maintain with the hazard of all that is near and dear to us, that six is less than seven in all times and all places […] .

The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.