[…] I should, if acting for the ingoer, claim a deduction of 25 per cent. from the table figures.

I got a compartment to myself, and sat with folded arms, looking grayly at the sunlit devastation that flowed past the windows

'This is where Lady Luck parts her fanny flaps and lets you dip your fingers in her pudding, if you get my drift. […]

[…] no more then a Pump grown dry will yield any water, unless you pour a little water into it first, and then for one Bason-ful you may fetch up so many Soe-fuls.