2006, Robert Altemeyer, The Authoritarians

As I have already said, I nowhere saw the cardoon south of the Salado; but it is probable that in proportion as that country becomes inhabited, the cardoon will extend its limits.

It is well known that internal-combustion-engined vehicles (ICEVs) have rather low on-the-road efficiencies (at present 20 to 25%, at best), but their overall performance is in fact even lower when account is taken of the energy used in the extraction, transport and refining of the oil and then in the delivery of the petrol.

[…] there was a sound of barking and a great hefty dog of the Hound of the Baskervilles type came galloping at me, obviously intent on mayhem, [... and] I was just commending my soul to God and thinking that this was where my new flannel trousers got about thirty bobs' worth of value bitten out of them […]