Between the blooms where the sod basked bright, By the bobbing fuchsia trees, Was another and yet more eyesome sight— The sight that richened these.

They were very big hands, and as Mr. Knewbit held them up side by side, with the palms toward his young shaver, they not undistantly resembled a pair of decent-sized flatfish.

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].

The Spartans were so successful at winning wars and taking slave that at one point in time Sparta was home to 9000 citizens and 250,000 slaves.