I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

The neglect of not answering your obliging letter wrote soon after your arrival at Calcutta, I confess makes very bad against me, but the truth is that I could give no other answer to what you mentioned concerning your Nephew than that it was not in my power to serve him […] .

These were not innocent times, she said.

The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.