He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws.

...I find that you, in recording the longevity of incumbents (1ˢᵗ S. xi. 407.) notice that the quartern loaf was on the 5th March, 1801, at the enormous price of twenty-two pence halfpenny, happily at this moment only two-fifths of that amount...

Self-interest led the Saxon to Normanize his language, and the French to Anglicize his speech.

The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in the shower you had so carefully blended.