The engine wouldn't run any more so we had to trailer my old car to the wrecking yard.

He ratted a vertical line on his face with a pocket knife.

In the southern and western districts of the county [Shropshire], a hatchet used by farmers and gardeners is called a brummuck. … Pleaching hedges, a task needing much skill, is done with brummucks.

Mother, what is this light o'er me? It flashes pink from that far North Sea Whose icen walls are an opal bowl— It would lead me safe to the ultimate Pole.