If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected

The dealer's manipulations could have removed cards from the deck.

The ceiling had been painted with the martyrdom of some saint. Who shall place a bound to human folly, when both the inflicter and the endurer of torture have deemed that pain is acceptable in the sight of God?

They bought peelers [crabs that would soon shed] and kept them in large wooden floats until the crabs shed.