He scooted us out of the study and turned off the light […]

Various methods have been suggested for effecting this transfer by a bodily removal of whole wagons; either by lifting the bodies from one set of wheels to another, or transferring the wagons, wheels and all, to some kind of truck; but practically these projects wholly fail. […] It is calculated that to bring a train of fifty wagons under the machine, one by one, a horse would have to traverse five miles and a half.

There was a long spell of silence, a big, aching void, and then from the Professor a keen 'S-s-s-s!'

She's so ugly, an eight-pinter, I'd say.