I congratulated myself on the success of my plan.

And besides, Winchesters of the nonremovable sort work fine—why bother complicating things with cartridges […]

Never the prude, Eliza walked out into the dorm common room naked as a jaybird and grabbed her forgotten towel.

Prince Gortschakoff has spoken of the elements of disturbance and the revolutionary cosmopolites of Europe, and has asked France and England and Austria to repress their activity. Well, my Lords, no doubt as carrion birds are drawn by instinct to the battle-field, so, wherever there is disturbance, the moral and political vultures of Europe will flock to take part in it