Mr Malik had grown to quite like pea-cake, though he only ate one sugar biscuit and that was out of politeness.

...but it is plain that this potent nation, which now for more than half an age has not only come up with, but outstript others in several things — but especially in the arts of war, intriguing, and taxing — has been far enough from having the same success in matters trade, and in designs to those more remote places of the world.

Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

Pretended conjurations and prophecies of that event.