Ake thought if ever he was walking alone on a dark-like night and Jimmy came on him, he with his bare nieves and Jimmy with a knife, he'd stand as much chance of getting home safe as a celluloid cat that had strayed into hell[…].

When I looked up, I beheld an apparition, as if summoned by my thoughts, for I immediately recognised a Time Travelleress!

The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.

The cosmicity of the empty, blank view from the telescope made him feel lonely.