Now, Merilyn is neither bizarre nor eccentric in the ordinary sense but when she started talking about the ‘presence’ in her shop I thought she was extracting the urine.

He doesn't give a damn about your child's painting, he's just interested in the gold frame.

1611, The Holy Bible,…, London: […] Robert Barker,[…], OCLC 964384981, Ecclesiastes 8:9–There is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.:

Presently, as the sustaining centrifugal force lessened and failed, she began to sway and wabble from side to side, and finally, toppling over on her side, rolled convulsively on her back and lay motionless with all her feet in the air, honestly believing that the world had somehow got atop of her and she was supporting it at a great sacrifice of personal comfort.