His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance.

Speak of the devil—he marches through the door, and becomes apoplectic when he learns of the upheaval.

Boris Johnson's claim ping-pong was originally a Victorian English invention called whiff-whaff has been attacked by the descendants of the world's oldest sporting and games manufacturer.]

Moreover, the three orders of duration—evential, conjunctural, and structural—are regarded as commensurable in the terms of the same scale.