Many of the rank and file had no better conception of the proud and sensitive Maori than was implied in the degrading 'nigger' theory, invariably applied by the unthinking Briton to all coloured races.

She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.

Surely, estates be then best, when they are likest minds that be worst: I mean, neither hot, nor cold: neither distended with too much, nor narrowly pent […]

Simon had obviously been a big swinging dick around here, and I wondered how many of them had taken a turn on that swing...