But the snow threw over everything an unfamiliar guise; the reflected light, striking gently yet brilliantly up from below, had a disrealising quality, produced a subtle architectural confusion, such as the process of floodlighting coarsely travesties.

It’s easy to make a cocktail more sweet or sour or dilute; it’s harder to make it unsweet or unsour and undilute.

You'll see the tower slap-bang in front of you when you come out of the station.

Or it might be a magnificent pall, in the days in which this garment had lost its primitive character, that taxed the skill and the patience of the fair needlewoman. It was about the year a.d. 601 that Pope Gregory [I] sent two archbishop's palls into England; the one for London, which see was afterwards removed to Canterbury, and the other to York.