The ball glanced off the edge of his racquet.

When God save the King! resounded through the stately abbey, the banners vibrating with the mighty music, I felt quite enthusiastic in my loyalty.

This done, he removed the hat; and having touched his forehead lightly with a silk handkerchief, for the afternoon sun was warm, gazed about him with a grave distaste. “A scaly neighbourhood!” he murmured. The young man’s judgment was one at which few people with an eye for beauty would have cavilled.

Which he doth conquer in the end, when by th' extensure of the wand, he brings ten plagues upon the land.