He persuaded my mother to publish a little volume of these versifyings.

As with most other railways, freight revenue is the mainstay of the balance sheet. In Canada, passenger revenue is only about one-tenth that of freight.

Even the mantelpiece is adorned with a totally unfunctional tasselled valance rather like an altar frontal.

[F]or garden it was called, though consisting but of plots of sward, bordered by fruit trees, and white rose trees not yet in blossom, […]