Comparison of the curves suggests that the usual smooth-looking creep curves, if scaled up on the deformation axis, may display a jumplike structure […]

Through the open doorway of a small inner room on the right hand, of a character between pantry and cellar, was Dick Dewy’s father Reuben, by vocation a “tranter,” or irregular carrier.

I'm sure I never shall forget the turn young SIMMONS gave me when he came in with that paper as he'd been and copied out of a winder thro' being in a west-end house, tho' livin' at home with his mother, as steady a woman as ever trod shoe-leather, …

No wonder Johnny Foreigner lays in supplies of the stale bread rolls whenever he appears over the horizon.