He told me a made-up version of the events, but I demanded the truth.

[…] before he could presume to deliver an opinion upon the comparative merits of cat-lap and grog […]

It would be impossible, while the sun or electric body remained unaltered, and these planets retained their primary condition, that their axillary and orbituary motions, and distances from the centre, should ever change through an endless succession of ages.

Take one more footstep towards me, and I'll make you sorry!