[T]he old demands of manhood suffrage and annual parliaments were made, but the principal cry was for ‘Bread! Bread!’

Warm pleasure replaced cold pain and I looked down at myself... two shriveled up prunes and a wet noodle.

On the other side of the road the double track admits to a complicated rail network totalling some 78 miles of dockside track that carries more express passenger traffic than any other completely unsignalled layout in the country, in addition to a huge tonnage of freight.

They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when anyone denies a lawful satisfaction to another of indolence, of sadness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate.