That's when it hits me that Brunswick is a time burglar. Specifically, she's stealing my time with her inane questions and now she is my nemesis.

[I]f you love him not, then you can love me, and, therefore, can come to please yourself, willy-nilly. What! am I to be thwarted in such a trifle? Willy-nilly, I say, I will marry thee. Come—we waste the time.

Like other cityscapists, Van de Velde attempted to fit the entire city into his painting. He therefore depicted it from a distance and at a wide angle, so that the entire length of the city walls would fit in the picture.

The French were very sore about the unceremonious manner in which the Dual Control was dispensed with. Their simple statesmen seemed to think that we, who had complacently picked the chestnuts out of the fire, were going to share them. Earl Granville, in kindness of heart, offered Johnny Crapaud a consolation sop in the form of the Presidency of the Public Debt Department, which was sulkily refused, and Johnny Crapaud retired to his tent, thence to cause us petty annoyances whenever he could.