gawping faces

To preach liberalism to a population jesuitised by education, is to press the pleasures of dancing upon a man who has lost a leg.

bowls of frosted argentry

I would have thrashed him well at the start but for the letters I constantly received from home warning me against offence to the parents, and knew that to set my foot on the children's larrikinism would require measures that would gain their mother's ill-will at once.