[T]he false Thecla […] had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.

They are entering the market, setting up stalls on snowy streets, moonlighting to supplement exiguous incomes.

All that was left of his business were a few measly cake crumbs.

Each machine has on average 200 moulds, each mould contains 18 bobbins, and each bobbin, when first cottoned, 60 yards of wick, so that supposing all the frames of our seven machines to be fresh cottoned at the same time, we should have above 800 miles of wick in work.