Green wood hardens after about four or five scorchings in the fire, but several scorchings are required to drive out the sap.

It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

I disavailed myself of his services.

Because V.'s literary dabblings are blended faggotly out of sophistication and vulgarity, they have sold well.