Monarchies have risen from barbarism to civility, and fallen again to ruin.

I never saw such a hokie band uniform.

Lawrence died defending his vessel and his famous last words, Don't give up the ship, have been familiar to every schoolboy.

And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, 'Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'