Miss Howe is a charming creature too; but confoundedly smart, and spiritful.

[…] it is not less ridiculous for instance to place a man, who may be perhaps an adept at spalling stones, in charge of a mill at the salary of a first-class foreman, than it would be to put the latter to cob ore at the wage of a labourer.

Oxford Circus in London is at the north end of Regent Street.

That boat doesn't float.