Her blood had also splashed across the breakfast room to the left of the stairs: onto a rosebowl, the children's encyclopaedia that lay on the piano, the pictures and portraits.

In the Spring of the Year thereafter, this inteſtine War, within the Bowels of this Commonweal, began to increase ay more and more; and ſo continued two Years; during the which Time, the Douglaſſes burnt and herried all Lands pertaining to the King and his Aſſiſters; and alſo to them that were not plain on his Faction.

Put up your pocket-book and your keelyvine pen then, for I downa speak out an' ye hae writing materials in your hands

And that the first communication and transaction between earthlings and marslings — or venusites or mercurians — would be a lumber deal.