“Why, lawks, Mrs. Jones!” said a woman of the lower type of lodging-house keeper, as she stood on the gravel walk and spoke to a middle-aged female on the lawn, whose clothes were as gaily coloured as a parrot’s, and who wore a Gampian bonnet trimmed with a flowerpotful of cabbage roses and a plume of ostrich feathers;

In two great palaces, from his father’s now middle-aged fellow-warriors king Nestor at Pylos and king Menelaus in Sparta, he hears accounts of the Greek armies’ gale-blown, sorrow-ridden return from the fall of Troy.

The Space run thro’ in the double Time, is quadruple to that ran thro’ in a ſubduple Time; that run thro’ in the triple Time is noncuple.

She's unusually happy for someone who's just broken her leg.