Dimly, subduedly sweet, were those days, clouded perhaps a little with boyish melancholy, and now brought to my remembrance by the play of sunshine and shadow in and round familiar nooks, by the leafy woodbine under the garden wall, by the sparkling dewy grass-blades, and the odor of the breathing woods, by the crab-appletree hedge, covered with grape-vines, and bordered with blackberry bushes, and inclosing the several fields, each shedding its own peculiar fragrance;

Many writers felt constricted painting below the windows of cars and began to expand their pieces upward into top-to-bottoms and lengthwise into end-to-ends.

The Swiss jewellery chiefly consisted of châtelaines or watch pendants, having no very distinct style or character, but embracing examples of all styles, both ancient and modern; […] One of the chief attractions in the collection were the examples of châtelaines attached to watch cases, ornamented in a similar style.

My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge.