He robbed three banks before he was caught.

The other day I heard a girl hailing from the moorlands of Yorkshire remark that she had laited a long time for the children, but could not find them, evidently meaning she had sought for them. Is this word common to Yorkshire?

The river of Cabool was crossed on a raft supported on inflated skins […] Its rapidity, formed into eddies, wheeled them round, and they had the agreeable satisfaction of being told that, if carried some way down, there was a whirlpool round which, if once enclosed in its circle, they might revolve, in hunger and giddiness, for a whole day.

The spear transfixed my arm that was uplifted In swift expostulation, and the blood Gushed round its point: I smiled, […]