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therein dealt with in its most virulent form

I may say an eloquent, objection

seemed to belong to the undertaker class

It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock – kneed, broken – winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse – power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

the country was steeped in oil

And that oil oozed up and ruined the sunset; and as for the moonbeams, they positively reeked of paraffine.

it was disgraceful that a respectable married woman should be harried about in this way

the oars. It makes it so cumbersome

to march round the slums to fight other disreputable dogs