Thou canst play the rational if thou wilt.

Patrick Leigh Fermor […] was a man of letters but also, like his hero Byron, a man of action—a war hero and a restless adventurer, who even swam the Hellespont when he was 69.

There were mermaids with gold chains around slinky long tails, swimming along with little merchildren.

Tom had been been out early, or had got what we call a bush telegraphy or mulga wire, for when they reached the Four Lanes he said — […] .