The past is leaving us, the untried and unknown future is before us, and we can none of us forecast or forereckon what Seventynine, another twelve months, will bring to us and ours. What 1878 has been 1879 may not be, or vice versa ; …

One of the curiosities of Tristanian English is the inclusion of an 'h' at the start of words that begin with a vowel.

His arm was placed on a rectangular splint, wrapped in a piece of lint thickly smeared with blue ointment, and the whole covered with oil-silk; and he was ordered a purge of blue pill followed by senna and salts.

Common Moss, very common and running wild about old cabins, attaining new heights of bush, greater bloom, and marvelous mossiness when in the right location […]