I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.

She declared her helpmate to be a limb of Antichrist, and one with whom no regenerated person could associate.

He picked the ball up about forty yards out on the left wing, left a trail of Arsenal defenders in his wake, and curled the ball round Geoff Barnett as he came right out into the far corner.

[…] because she believed with the natives of the district that if a woman killed a snake she would give birth to a monster, she took pains to leave the pests alone, so that the house, being in a region over-run with snakes, was often like a reptilarium.