The youth climbed off, Zippoed a wick in a glass bottle and walked towards Jake's flat.

Conscious of their fear and hatred, the Persian conqueror governed his new subjects with an iron sceptre; and as if he suspected the stability of his dominion, he exhausted their wealth by exorbiant tributes and licentious rapine, despoiled or demolished the temples of the East, and transported to his hereditary realms the gold, the silver, the precious marbles, the arts, and the artists of the Asiatic cities.

[…] I could hear nothing but a low gabbling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two […]

The students enjoy a number of extracurricular activities at weekends.