The children began to sing draggingly. Half a dozen carried the first verse through alone.

The Sankey brook is described as receiving the reekage from huge heaps of waste, and as, in fact, a sewer containing sulphur running down considerably more yellow than amber.

Ms. Boyd had been a successful London model in her dollybird days.

I ran forward, discharging my pistol into the creature's body in an effort to force it to relinquish its prey; but I might as profitably have shot at the sun.