This sloshing was compounded by the fact we were unable to keep in step with each other due to the many and various sized niggerheads (hard tussocks in tundra) that would attempt to roll from under us as if one was stepping on balls ranging in size from softballs to basketballs, with each step if unable (most of the time we could not) to avoid.

The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.

Curiously, he omitted the only indigenous instrument, Franklin's glassichord.

Ah ! we may smile as we walk behind our hostess as she discourses eagerly over her pickles and preserves, and we scent the queer lavender cupboardy smell that hangs about the upstairs rooms, each bed appropriately attired in a ghost-like dust-sheet.