[…] as some in frostie weather to gather Dogwood for Butchers, to get burch and broome for beesomes, and sometimes to catch birdes with lime, or set springes in the marshes for water fowle, honest shifts, it is true, in necessitie.

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

I bought a tuppence worth of humbugs

I inherited the deed to the house.