If they had lived to threescore years and ten, man and dog might have travelled through life together, but as it is we must either have a succession of affections, or else, when the first is buried in its early grave, live in a chill condition of doglessness.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde involves a Gothic double.

Boats of all sizes have to be hauled out for maintenance sooner or later.

The shell is moderately large, elongately conical, with an elevated spire and an obtuse apex.