He had to piss so bad he jerked his pants down past his knees and she saw him bare assed, pissing like a Russian racehorse.

AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s. This compendious work, which, with its index, runs to 637 pages, aims to list chronologically the developments of the British railway system.

I had done the same as a student at outpatients, listening to a succession of tannies with their hair in curlers […]

The quail is notorious for its quarrelsomeness : being confined in cage or quailery, it has to be kept in the dark if it is to be kept alive.