Then we started up a rise, and to our annoyance found ourselves amongst crevasses once more—very hard, smooth névé between high ridges at the edge of crevasses, and therefore very difficult to get foothold to pull the sledges.

Panos was so late that he arrived at the meeting after Antonio, who had the excuse of being in hospital for most of the night.

I happened, I know not how, to ſay that a pamphlet meant a proſe piece. [Samuel] Johnson. No, Sir. A few ſheets of poetry unbound are a pamphlet, as much as a few ſheets of proſe. [Samuel] Musgrave. A pamphlet may be underſtood to mean a poetical piece, in Weſtminſter-Hall, that is in formal language; but in common language it is underſtood to mean proſe. Johnson. (and here was one of the many inſtances of his knowing clearly and telling exactly how a thing is) A pamphlet is underſtood in common language to mean proſe, only from this, that there is ſo much more proſe written than poetry; as when we ſay a book, proſe is underſtood for the ſame reaſon, though a book may as well be in poetry as in proſe. We underſtand what is moſt general, and we name what is leſs frequent.

Maybe I'm playing the wrong games, or maybe it's because I've become so use to TADS that anything else seems 'awkweird'.