It is absurd in any sojourner at the Cape priding himself upon his whipmanship, for every countryman can fan along six or eight horses with as much nicety as a mail-coachman his favourite team: […]

If Dr Anderson is a high priest of access, then Ms Wheen, itinerant commentatrix of the arts, is, if not exactly a high priestess, a pretty high-up vestal virgin.

Marie makes a distinction between the long-handed and the wide-handed forms.

He noted that the flower's petals were incurvate.