I've seen the posh coolboxes that run on 12 volts from the faglighter;

It might have been supposed that, given a girl rapidly becoming good-looking, comfortably circumstanced, and for the first time in her life commanding ready money, she would go and make a fool of herself by dress.

It was a fine clear morning late in the autumn, when the leaves were falling rapidly, and every breath of wind was followed by a plentiful shower of them; when all the flowers were gone from Mr. Ashton’s garden, except the chrysanthema and the Michaelmas daisies; when the nuts and blackberries had all disappeared, and there was nothing in the fields but stubble.

The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.