I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make, said Jim, but I was at Winchester and New College. ¶ That will do, said Mackenzie. I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. […]

'CBE, Minister,' he replied, unhappily. I wasn't sure what he meant. Could I have been awarded the CBE.? – or could he? He explained. "Can't Be Everywhere'.

The best-paid Greek soldiers are the Evzonoi, their pay amounting to 12 lepta a day extra (that is to say, to 27 lepta net).

Negritude is not wearing turbans and fezzes, though these may be quite alluring.