[…] we seem to be drifting courseless through cloudland, with our horizon immediately around us.

Chestnut wood, dyed with saffron, or old chestnut, dyed with gambooge, imitates dark mahogany.

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.155: That mind which harboureth Philosophie, ought by reason of her sound health, make that bodie also sound and healthie: it ought to make her contenment to throughshine in all exteriour parts […].

But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.