Why, I am simple as a pony, Sir […]?– born in a Drift, a Corf for my cradle, and nought but the Back-shift for Schoolmasters there […]?

Pomophobes who teach find that they are surrounded by less-than-reverent students who want to do the latest thing, namely the despised you-know-what.

His reply was strongly suggestive of a forthcoming challenge to the governor.

The city of Coni, from the nature of its ſituation, at the extremity of one of those three grand valleys, which I have heretofore claſſed as primitive, may be said to form a central point of union at the foot of the Cottian and Maritime Alps, to a number of ſecondary valleys which deſcend from theſe tremendous heights.