Bookmanship is the art of adjusting literature to life.

The main item on the agenda was alcohol, not food. [Gavin] Ewart began with several negronis (gin, vermouth, Campari), which is not an amateur’s drink, and carried on from there.

At the mention of the increased amount of odds, the snob took the youngster aside, and said to him, "Look now, by the book, we have the old man done brown; my horse is dead amiss, your cousin's horse you can beat easy, […]

It seemed that this complaint of Agelastus had awaked the spirits of the Arcadians, astonished before with the exceedingness of sorrow.