In the days of their [the Roman armies’] grandeur, when no enemy appeared capable of opposing them, their heavy armour was laid aside as unnecessarily burdensome, their laborious exercises were neglected as unnecessarily toilsome.

They held the meeting sub rosa.

The Siamese boy brought in plates containing wormy shreds of over-fried egg, seasoned with blackened bits of onion.

At another graduation, Zoomer and Zonker, two students who met in the clownology course, were married […]