That gloomy spot they spoke of lay aside from the hamlet. In a dell, begirt with firs, you might behold a hut, and various ruined office-houses.

Using statements in his own poems as evidence, they tried him on charges of slander and effected what amounted tried him on charges of slander and effected what amounted to banishment by assigning him an insignificant post in the region of Huang-chou on the north bank of the Yangtze in central China.

Well, I mean to say, supposing a man wanted a bit of a holiday...quiet time away from everybody. This is the very place. Bonzer beach for swimming, sunbaking. Bonzer shanty like this to loaf in; what more does a man want?

Iohn Fiſher Biſhop of Rocheſter, when the King [Henry VII of England] would have tranſlated him from that poore Biſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying: He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived.