Well, we've cotch them any how, said the urchin, as he disengaged himself from his wet saddle, and stood upon the ground; and it is not my fault that the coach is not before us.

I was sitting with Uncle Meyer inside the Lanskys' poolside cabana watching retirees assert their waning vestiges of earthly power with gratuitous admonitions to other people's grandchildren […]

Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper, two convicted witches – across the Common […]

They had been living in straitened circumstances after John was made redundant.