More recently there has burst forth an enthusiastic Hispanicism, no longer the Hispanicism of Columbus Day with its odes to the great navigator, nor the Hispanicism of the bull fighters and the cabaret singers, but a historical Hispanicism […]

When I phoned up, I was fobbed off with a string of excuses.

He aim’d at high designs, and so attain’d / The high assigns to which his spirit aim’d.

I have got a gammy leg, and can't walk far.