The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.

And yet I know not how conceit may rob the treasury of life when life itself yields to the theft;

[S]he was rumoured to be rather less than gruntled when The Soup's Joel McHale said: Here's Ryan Seacrest and Tyra Banks playing Lady and the Tramp ... You figure out which is which.

Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own.