The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.

He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.

After being towed into a massive slab, Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation.

[…] the first home-made guide to TV films by which is meant old films shown on the box, not those new Hollywood glossies made specially for it (though a guide there too would soon be welcome).