The frontispiece to the first of these books, engraved on steel with much delicacy by Davenport, is so carefully drawn, and displays such refinement of humour, that it might be ascribed to Wilkie or Smirke; and in Knickerbocker, George could hardly then have become a misocapnist when he limned with such intense gusto the Pipe-Plot, with its group of smoke-compelling burghers, or the Death of Walter the Doubter, where his lymphatic Excellency, lungs and pipe exhausted together, exhales his peaceful soul in the last whiff of canaster!

He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.

Might it have been any different had Leroy Sané’s goal, late in the first half, not been wrongly given offside? Nobody will ever know but it was certainly true that City were threatening a remarkable feat of escapology in that part of the match.

It can be seen that vowels have the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels.