At his age, he won't get another shot; he really has all his eggs in this one basket.

I am surprised that you, sir, a man of letters yourself, should have the temerity so to interrupt the progress of science.

The skylight, although it had been bricked up by someone’s hysterical order, at that time in the past when a man had penetrated the attic-floor of the club to visit a girl, was not beyond being unbricked by the firemen. It was all a question of time.

My brother supposes they must have filled outside London, for at that time the furious terror of the people had rendered the central termini impossible.