For there the old man wears / The sweet symbol that appears / In the desolatest hour / That the winter-world doth know, / When a bud is seen to blow / In its lightness and its whiteness, / Its purity and brightness, / As if four flakes of snow / Were united in one flower.

Rice is a tropical plant; yet Carolina and Georgia grow the finest in the world; heavier grained, better filled, and more merchantable, than any imported into Europe from the Indies.

The excavation took 16 months of 24-hour working to complete and required the sinking of a 65ft shaft, from where workers carved out the passageway and lined it with reinforced steel and sprayed concrete.

For example, after the opposer had objected to the opposee's plan to drive the car, the opposee suggested, We can take turns driving the car.