One of the principal features of the ordinary configurations of the transformer … is the electrical isolation that exists between the primary and secondary windings. … Whenever large transformation ratios are involved, safety demands that ordinary transformers be used. However, in instances where the transformation ratio is close to unity (which minimizes the hazard), a transformer employing a single tapped winding may be used with notable advantages. … This arrangement is called the autotransformer.

Lucy scowled at him, jabbing a fork in his direction and trying not to smile. 'It's your fault – my cakes aren't usually so . . . fally-aparty.'

He was standing at the window […] when in bounced little red-faced bustling Dr. Toole—the joke and the chuckle with which he had just requited the fat old barmaid still ringing in the passage […]

She cooeth like the stock-dove, / And round my neck she flings / The little arms that brush away / The day-time's cruel stings.