‘Nolly, Nolly,’ observed the Doctor, ‘I wish your maid would stop your foolish mouth with a blue-bag.’

a newishly-surfaced road

Hills was struck down badly wounded, and was on the point of being despatched by a sowar, when Major Tombs, hearing the noise, rushed out of his tent, and seeing the plight his subaltern was in, fired his revolver at thirty yards and killed the sowar.

They set monopoly rates; they regulated ever-changing financial markets; they nurtured a whole cradleful of delicate industries, from ocean shipping to nuclear powered electric generation.