When we read Chaucer, we are floated up to him insensibly on the current of our ancestors' lives, […] But the Greeks remain in a fastness of their own.

After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.

[…] he's a rare hand at an oration too; none of your Englified chaps that mince their words and speak fine; but plain and out-spoken as I am, when I call the men in to their breakfast or dinner.

[S]he declined his invitation to Come up and see the old woman and set a spell.