He lay down, cuddled the blankets up to his ears, closed his eyes and composed himself to sleep, at peace with his conscience and the world.

The coat itself, a long one of some fuzzy material, with huge side pockets into which the man's hands were plunged, reached to the cavernous tops of jackboots where the nether ends of his trousers were stowed away.

We came home by a place called Speke Hall — built 1589 — the queerest-looking old rickle of boards that I ever set eyes on; […]

v, 95, 98, 105; sources in O.F. I: Latin kṷ qu, interv. 328–330; G.R. 𝛃, cf. β; L.L. ṷ, initial after d and n, 374; O.F. glide w, 239, 267; in Mid. Fr. f, final praevocalic, 611.