If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

The floor was covered with handprints, footprints, and pawprints.

The article was writerly and professional.

As he himself [Sir Nigel Gresley] would doubtless have wished, he died in harness; only a few weeks previously he had been present at the first public view of his latest design, the Bantam Cock, which, like most of his products, bore all over it the impress of his personality.