O! now, my dear Doctor, but one glass of champagne, or a wine-glass of punch to soften my cough!

Australia won the coin toss and chose to bat first.

It was after noon, for the sun was past the meridian, and very hot for the time of year, when the face of the country began to change; and instead of the short sward of the open down, sprinkled with tiny white snail-shells, the ground was brashy with flat stones, and divided up into tillage fields.

PVC, the hard plastic polymer polyvinyl chloride, “is not a long-term, ultrapermanent material,” he said.