[…] they pass alternately into church and Dissenting chapel, where “Cushion smiters” once abounded.

It is possible that the bronze part of the bow-guard was embedded in a wooden armature in some way that obviated the use of pegs or edging on the bronze itself.

How could the events of a few hours wear such deep and uneffaceable channels in human lives?

You can't agree as to any time, Mrs. Moore, vvhen vve can have this third room, can you?—Not that (vvhiſper'd I, loud enough to be heard in the next room; Not that) I vvould incommode the lady: But I vvould tell my vvife vvhenabouts— […]