At the south corner of the plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been looked on with no small veneration as a Shrew-Ash.

Opsomania is the latest new disease, and hypnotism is its remedy.

You kids don’t appreciate Boardwalk and Park Place because you never had to work for them.

I slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to.