The Road to Oxiana is a travelogue by Robert Byron, first published in 1937. It is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing.

This ſuſpicion of Earl Reimund, though at firſt but a buzze, ſoon got a ſting in the Kings head, and he violently apprehended it.

I thought of giving up this club, which was expensive and of no service to me, and the amusement overbalanced by the late hours.

No time has been lost in setting about the implementation of non-controversial Beeching proposals.