Yes, egad, they are tenacious of reputation with a vengeance, for they don't choose anybody should have a character but themselves!

The great public, who follow the bell-wether with trusting confidence, and with the greater eagerness if the scent of scandal comes from his direction, tumbled pell-mell through the gap in the fence discovered by their arietine leader, and the whole pasture resounded with ovine voices of dismay.

Last night, at sunset, there were plenty of the most respectable wind-clouds, but now there isn't a capful.

I asked him to sit.