But perhaps your accommodations—your cottage—your furniture—have disappointed your expectations?

[I]f view'd with a very good Microſcope, we may find that the top of a Needle (though as to the ſenſe very ſharp) appears a broad, blunt, and very irregular end; not reſembling a Cone, as is imagin'd, but onely a piece of a tapering body, with a great part of the top remov'd, or deficient. The Points of Pins are yet more blunt, and the Points of the moſt curious Mathematital Inſtruments do very ſeldome arrive at ſo great a ſharpneſs; …

There is an apocryphal tale of a little boy plugging the dike with his finger.

We heard a pat on the door.