The soutane sleeve swished again as the pandybat was lifted and a loud crashing sound and a fierce maddening tingling burning pain made his hand shrink together […]

It was a stormy day and it was slap bang in the middle of the fair weather season.

Sometimes he stopped and listened for sounds of pursuit, but there were none, only the skitterings of rats.

This also must be said, that he did not blame the use of Aristotle in the Universities among the junior Students, but did altogether disapprove the streightness and sfloath of elder dijudicants, from whom a more generous temper might be expected