The oxen took up again their quiet processional gait and the old man walked ahead of them, his eyes on the ground.
I would walk through the rooms I rented and listen to the unhurried murmurs the town made, constant and rhythmic, as subtly troubled as the nighttime respirings of a light sleeper. There was never silence.
The tough malmy clay at the bottom of the hill comes very nearly down to the right side of the road here; […]
When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after base lucre; […]
