You knows we never took Mike's duds till you couldn't pay his charges any longer; and since we comes to that, there's two weeks of three shillings and sixpence due for your lodging in the Star-Chamber, for yourself and Master Lionel Falconer, which I supposes you means to pay with a Dutch reckoning: you sees I can speak some names right enough,—d'ye take me,—hey? and with an ill-natured leer he left the hall.

In a few weeks he [William III of England] had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.

Typically, the art world disdains “flipping” — when a collector buys a work and then immediately resells it at a profit.

If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low.