One of the crowd was a ruddy-faced, red-bearded, Judas-haired fellow, that looked every inch a Fenian, and might have stepped here from the Kilkenny wilds; […]

Cellular mobiles can have apparently bizarre holes in their reach.

Prothonotary was a pretty impressive-sounding title for a clerk of court, but that’s how the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania rolled.

Person B: Well, God works in mysterious ways — maybe it'll be the kick you need to apply to university...