The various intermixings of natives, immigrants, and tourists gave the city a cosmopolitan air.

Knowledge was always useful, and he had frequently heard the words 'Great Portland Street' on the lips of his son, who regularly perused all the twelve automobilistic papers, and who was apparently the most learned pundit and inclusive encyclopædia ever created on the subject of petrol-driven vehicles, their prices, and their innumerable points.

The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine.

The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.