Mr. Prayter was a thorough-going cleric in the way of eating. He ate till there was nothing left.

The identity of the secretive street artist has been outed by a Sunday newspaper and, shock horror, he's middle class.

The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — McElrath.

It does, some persons tell us, do no good, while, on the other hand, it renews in our shocked sight scenes which it is not necessary for me to describe in detail, a traffick, which, for the sake of the liberty of the press, may as well be nameless here, though the reader will find it most circumstantially described in the former speeches of Mr. Grey, now Lord Howick.