We were led upstairs to old-fashioned rooms with floral-counterpaned beds.

I have no idea why this works, but empirically, it works.

The last three Christmases have been good for retailers.

The Southern acquired them because the little Class B4 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.