To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
But when she noticed me in the open doorway she stopped abruptly, and the parrot settled on her shoulder, becoming just as still. “You have caught me acting foolsome, Doctor,” she said. Her English is heavily accented and less than fluent.
We may keep it by us, replied the pawnbroker, for months; there is no demand for such articles. But, exclaimed she, eagerly, I shall soon redeem it! So you all say, returned the man, with imperturbable coolness.
The windy weather last weekend set a new renewable power record and resulted in some households being paid to charge their electric cars to help balance the grid. Wind farms in Britain generated more than 16 gigawatts of power for the first time on Sunday evening.