'Twould wind-break a mule […] to vie burthens with her.

After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.

Then I'll use a travel-size toothbrush and tiny toothpaste and brush my teeth.

The difficulties of focussing colour-light signals on curved tracks to ensure maximum sighting distance were underlined in the recent official report … on a low-speed collision at Newcastle Central on July 25, 1960, between an unfitted freight and a diesel-hauled passenger train.