[…] after fumbling with numbing fingers for ten or fifteen minutes, he waved his hand with a gesture of despair […]

The good Lord behear! he exclaimed, stood stock-still for a moment, and waddled off at top speed towards the back door. We must tell Aunt at once! […]

Every covenant of God with man […] may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.

The button ignition was one of the best I’ve encountered (often they don’t respond quickly enough, and you end up pressing five times before you enter the state of stoppedness or startness you desired).