[…] 'Tis true, when once a Schirrus is formed in a glandular Part, no one can tell how it may terminate; becauſe various changes may ariſe from various Cauſes in the Conſtitution of the Perſon; and if the Juices ſhould degenerate into a highly acrid, or what the Ancients termed an atrabiliary State, the Schirrus will be (cæteris paribus) more liable to become a Cancer.

As he crossed the greatroom floor he could smell smoke. It was coming from his bedchamber!

Wilt thou kill God's officers and the king's? Ah, thou honey-seed rogue! Thou art a honey-seed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller.

The distant signal is like the ordinary French signal No. 5, but at such a junction it has a fishtailed semaphore shut up in the post when normal.