A decade later D&H began buying fast, high-horsepower locomotives in the interest of lucrative bridge-route traffic.

[…] and so ended, not without a sigh on my part, one of the merriest six-hour rides that five yachtsmen, one cockney, five women and a child, the carman, and a countryman with an alpeen, ever took in their lives.

I slowed to a safer speed to avoid plunging into one of the tidepools and receiving a footful of spines.

I have seen two cases of this wenny, or fatty disease, which had seized the breasts of women.