He was so eloquent in drawing the picture of his own neglected merits, and so pathetic in lamenting over it when it was done, that I felt quite at my wits' end how to console him, when it suddenly occurred to me that here was a case for the wholesome application of a bit of Robinson Crusoe.

She is not bred so dull but she can learn.

Some said that the antiobscenity laws were an infringement of free speech.

a rock-face whose crown overhung its base and whose extensive surface was knuckly with the clay nests of innumerable martins