How didst thou 'scape? How cam'st thou hither? swear / by this bottle how thou cam'st hither—I escaped upon / a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved overboard, by / this bottle!

And when the pile quite large had grown, / The auctioneeress rose, / And called for bids as from the pile / With tears some gift she chose, / For she could not help thinking / Of sacrifices great / Which she and all her friends had made / The flag fund to create.

Long residence in lime districts had furnished the experience, that phosphatic calculi are not even as common as among the horses and ponies of coal-mines; and, further, that both phosphatic calculi, and more generally mixed or the dustball kind, are very prevalent in those pits, and even districts above ground, where no lime-water whatever can be obtained.

Firstly, the writer, like the language, is subject to the situation, in that he or she must say something meanable.