They ripped out the phone, took Sinatra outside and disappeared into a blustering snowstorm.

Bears are flat-footed animals.

In a better cause, what fortitude, what endurance, would have belonged to her nature! even humiliated, self-convicted as she felt, her native pride could not quite desert her.

The lengthening [of the District Line platforms] is being done so that passengers will no longer have to use the narrow catwalks to enter and leave the front and rear portions of eight-car trains.