At Hamburg, too, High-Dutch is the fashionable language; but I know that, a generation back, people of the highest position and education spoke Low-Dutch in their own houses, though of course they could also speak High-Dutch when it was wanted.

These , being usually developed from distinct and independent centres , I have termed “autogenous” elements

I dropped a couple of Hamiltons on the counter and walked out.

Rats are neophilic in their choice of what to gnaw: they select unfamiliar rather than familiar objects. […]