My special business is to travel the country for orders for lightning-rods. This is my specimen rod; tapping his staff; I have the best of references-fumbling in his pockets. In Criggan last month, I put up three-and-twenty rods on only five buildings.

The cars were snailing along the motorway during the rush hour.

a vaporiferous cavern

Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.