We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.

He had told more lies in his time, and undergone more baseness of stratagem in order to stave off a small debt, or to swindle a poor creditor, than would have sufficed to make a fortune for a braver rogue.

Will you write me an Essay on Corsets? / On what? I asked incredulously—knowing that he had been a distinguished soldier, and suspecting that he had suddenly developed what the soldiers describe as a touch of the doolally.]

I shall always think, said Zenobia, that Lord Liverpool went much too far, though I never said so in his time; for I always uphold my friends.