In schools everywhere sports-wear is all spats and shorts.

I'd get a soup plate and then slide the glass very carefully over to the edge of the table, and let the water run into the soup plate - it doesn't have to run onto the floor.

It was the third year of Meiji when their family name was changed to Saga.

She spoke in soft tones.

I tried to take care with the shadows, but it just doesn't go very well.

The output of E->J translation software can be improved greatly by the way the user utilises it.

You won't find my weak point.

The cold wind cut through his coat.

The weak point of this book is that it's less than persuasive when the married author recommends not being married.

So characteristic of what a pious Christian would say, this courteous phrase.