I much prefer [to drink] hard water, though it ruins the boilers in my house in an incredibly short space of time. Poor dear! I don't suppose she saw the irony of her own contradiction, for her “tumtum” must be stronger than her steam boilers, according to her own story.

Workers laid foundations of immense timbers in crisscrossed layers following Root's 'grillage' principle.

The endoscopic models use an endocytoscope integrated to the endoscope and provide a 580x magnifcaton.

He wore a black coat, rather worn than old, which hung in tatters, a very fine but dirty shirt, frayed ruffles; a pair of splatterdashes so large that he could have put both legs into either of them, and, to secure himself from the snow, a little hat, only fit to be carried under his arm.