Once e-money is accepted as universally as greenbacks, don't be surprised if a disheveled man on the street steps up to you and says, Brother, can you spare a little stored value?

On the benches lay figures covered with yellow linen, on which a fine and impalpable dust had gathered in the course of ages, but nothing like to the extent that one would have anticipated, for in these deep-hewn caves there is no material to turn to dust.

Country swains, and silly swads.

1920, Charles à Court Repington, title of book The First World War.