All the colours of poetry, however splendid, can never paint natural objects in such a manner as to make the description be taken for a real landskip.

They imagined themselves as the antithesis of the sheep, and as such the sheep remains as a pervasive trope against which Québécois-ness is defined and expressed.

… his whole work in short was a vitalised reproach to much of the paragraph literature and art abroad, and he had, must have had, a greatness of soul worthy the grove which harboured the much enduring Carlyle and the faintless George Eliot.

Normally each semi-permanently coupled four-car unit will be made up with consequently numbered driving cars at each end and two intermediate trailer cars, …