A catheter, right down the Jap's eye even — well maybe not that, not yet anyway.

[…] the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality […]

Under the most favourable conditions dialects are destined to dwindle and decay, and we ought to be grateful to the writers who preserve for us a little longer old-time habits, customs and idiosyncracies in the folk speech of small communities as yet unwhelmed by the onrush of modern life.

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