It is a Thing ſtrange in Nature, when it is attentiuely conſidered, How Children and ſome Birds, learne to imitate Speech. … It is true, that it is done with time, and by little and little, and with many Eſſayes and Proffers: But all this diſchargeth not the VVonder.

That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!

He seemed unable to shake the bronchitis and the coincident infections it opened him to.

When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.