The rude turf building we found full from end to end, and all asteam with a particularly wet congregation, some of whom […] had travelled in the soaking drizzle from the further extremities of the island.

Divested of egotistic obsession, an ordinary human being could achieve the panoptic vision of a sage.

OK, I'll put my hand up to stealing the car, but not to robbing the off-licence.

A second [question] is, whether these Eggs are immediately dropt into the Water by the Gnats themselves, or, mediately, are brought down by the falling rain […]