Late at night comes Mr. Hudson, the cooper, my neighbour, and tells me that he come from Chatham this evening at five o'clock, and saw this afternoon The Royal James, Oake, and London, burnt by the enemy with their fire-ships: […] This passage uses the historical present tense.

The ones' complement of 0xAAAA is 0x5555 on a 16-bit machine, and 0xFFFF5555 on a 32-bit machine.

Have you changed a tyre before? — Yes, once or twice.

In some women it is flat, in many more tuberose, and forming, as it were, a frustum of a sphere; […] .