He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding dâks.

She whipped up the cards on the floor, extinguished an unglobed candle, and ruffled open the pages of Claude's copybook.

We left behind our luggage at the hotel.

It is generally believed that the planets do not scintillate at all, or scarcely at all. Nevertheless I have often observed a sensible scintillation of Venus and Mars, and in a few rare cases I have also observed a slight scintillation of Jupiter and Saturn. […] I would therefore call the attention of observers who may find themselves under atmospherical conditions of a nature to render the general scintillation very strong, to this point, as they might perhaps be able to ascertain whether Jupiter and Saturn ever sensibly scintillate.