In May 1898, for example, the funeral train of our Mr Gladstone would be brought from his country estate at Hawarden to Westminster station on the District Line via Willesden Junction. One of his biographers notes, 'Victorians saw no indignity in a coffin for a state funeral arriving by Underground.'

Let me see if I can light a fire under the waiter to get our order sooner.

The flickering TV fascinated the cat.

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