A stray wrench can really gum up the works.

that ascending ladder of ecclesiastical honours , the priorate , the abbacy , the bishopric , the metropolitanate , the cardinalate , and even that which was beyond and above all .

He hasn't twigged that we're planning a surprise party for him.

M. Malot pursues this physiological development of his idée-mere with a good deal of skill, and it is, we think, the most interesting feature of his book.