In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.

Orange and pint are generally considered unrhymable words.

At this point it might be noted that Copenhagenists are sometimes characterized as hard-nosed positivists who renounce all physical ontologies for QT except sense data.

Mdlle Reuter turned her eye laterally on me, to ascertain, probably, whether I was collected enough to be ushered into her sanctum sanctorum.