Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...

I caught a glimpse of a brown boot, the tongue flapping, the sole tied on with string.

Where common or garden matters are adequately coped with in the DN8, as for instance in connection with the Pastons, or with such personages as Dr Bentley and Archbishop Thomson, they have been largely left to that work.

Nevertheless, his reason rebelled, and his sense of religion by no means allowed the justice of refusing the amiable, handsome, and wealthy Englishman, whom his sweet child preferred, and who was perfectly willing that the signora should enjoy all the liberty required by her conscience and her church, together with such sums as should, from time to time, purchase the prayers of the faithful, and all other immunities, so far as his fortune furnished the means.