[…] who had forged a good reputation in the Lancashire League and also for Western Province in South Africa's Currie Cup cricket, where he batted middle-order and bowled brisk medium-pace with a slingy action.

The course of events in a body like one of the station’s lakes, with its extreme seasonal vicissitudes, ranging from complete overflow and loss of identity to absolute drying away in now and then an exceptional year, is extremely interesting to the œcologist.

[…]many a time has the little game been tried upon me, and I have found it sometimes necessary to use my shambuck, to bring the imposter to a sense of right.

The restaurant had Thank you for your patronage! printed on its take-out bags.