The fixation on objects will never stop, as we outpace and outwaste the health of our home.

After walking several miles in a leisurely manner, and too busy to know anything about it, they found at last, on examining their watches, that it was time to be at home.

the events or actions, which the writer relates, must be connected together, by some bond or tye

The cliffs are at most places perpendicular, or very nearly so; but every now and then there occurs a little valley, or a ledge of rock less abrupt than the rest, and there you may be sure of finding a small village, or at all events a house or two, and sometimes a tolerably respectable sized hamlet, looking down on its diminutive marina, or fishing beach, with a cluster of fishified huts, and still more fishified inhabitants, clinging like cockles to the faces and edges of the rock.