… I trow it is enough to make a man forswear the very mother that bore him, and to wish that he had never had one, when one is cooped up in a gloomy hole like this, to watch a door within which strutteth a jackanapes too proud to speak civil to those that approach him.

Q: What are your company's terms? A: Net thirty, cash or check. [This answer means that the net total must be paid within 30 days; see Net D.]

Although he seemed arbit at first, a few minutes of talking exposed a decent and well-mannered human being.

If the tree grows up against the garden wall then either the tree will be crowded and stunted or the wall will be pushed out.