His ruin startled th' other steeds.

The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains.

In refilling a pipe, where twist is smoked, a common practice is to save the dottle and put it on the top of the new-filled pipe. Aw like a baccy dottle to leet wiv.

This is the dwelling of a cockatoo-farmer, the humble agriculturist who makes the most of his thirty or forty acres of land, […]