In the front room, full of stale cigar-smoke, the Germans began their interrogation.

Then the rinkmaster blew the whistle and the bigger boys flooded in the gate; the smaller one ducked away.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:eminence.

Ye miscellaneous, ignoble manufacturing individuals, ye have produced too much! We accuse you of making above two-hundred thousand shirts for the bare backs of mankind. Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch-plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold?