Then she made an impatient gesture with her hand. Time was, my dear colleague, when a snuff-box was as much part of my equipment as my phlebotomy case.

Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.

Like other sidearmers, O’Day found salvation out of desperation.

The wheel slides are purposely slightly under-compensated, causing the work to approach an oversize condition after several truings.