He clasped his hands together, and involuntarily uttered a subdued exclamation of horror. A mist came before his eyes; the cold sweat stood upon his ashy face.

One-and-twenty worn and defaced shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and defaced too, but seldom so much so.

[…] Suppose that K is a finite field and that the rank of apparition r of (W_n) is at least 4.

She was neither overdressed nor overdecked in jewels, nor over made-up as some of her peers were; nor was she overboisterous.