But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.

It was a real irritation to Robert's parents to hear Adeline call him Bobby. They tried to intimate their disapproval by pronouncing his name very distinctly when they addressed him.

This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it.

MATS […] enables near real-time estimation of the postimplementation effectiveness of 4CMenB; PBT values may be used to efficiently predict 4CMenB strain coverage on a representative panel of invasive isolates from any geographical setting; such estimates are crucial to economic and health technology assessment (HTA) studies.