Parrot cries for silence on delicate political issues sounded increasingly archaic – and were quite unable to stem the rising tide of parlementary critique.

As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.

She stood and unbuttoned her loosefitting coat and her loosefitting blouse and hung them on the back of the chair.

there he held the office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.