It is a place of bed-fast people, Señor, where all those who tire of life, or of whom life has tired, exhausted old men, disillusioned youths, dishonored families, take to their beds and pledge never to arise until death carries them off feet-first. […]

This was the mode in which Roman treaties were made, the fecialis praying Jupiter to punish the infringer of the treaty as he did the animal, which he instantly dispatched with a flint stone.

Powell explained that all even-numbered trains are being built in Switzerland and the odd-numbered trains in Poland.

In all dealings between natives there is invariably a species of extortion, a sort of dustoory, which is given in all money transactions.