The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

[…] a misedition of the Vulgar, which perverts the sense by making a wrong stop in the sentence […]

We do not keep him mewed up, Betsey, replied Mrs. Barclay, “nor does he continue mewed up, for a single flash of temper […] "

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]