[…] a landmark point of the season, with fans and commentators alike eagerly awaiting a 'cupset'.

He sat in a wheely chair just inside the door, spinning one way and the other, lifting up his knees to spin faster.

The French Government had not taken regular possession of it when the war with England broke out; and Bonaparte hastened to sell that Province to the Americans, who had already cast their eyes upon it, with the view both of preventing the English from ravishing it from him, and of procuring funds to carry on the war.

[…] notwithstanding the swelling of my Foot, so that I had never yet in five days been able to stir it, but as it was lifted.