In some countries, half seven means 6:30.

I guess he must have weighed some 90 kilos.

[…] can only be accounted for on the supposition that they recognise the resemblance it bears to their national pipe, and believe in nothing without a sough, whether it be the birr of the drone, or the more dissonant but characteristic falsetto that governs the higher notes of the chaunter.

Published in 1919, this anthology was jingoistically titled The Great Tradition: Selections from English and American Prose and Poetry.