In a very real sense, then, George lordfully creates the troubles for which Lennie will himself be blamed and punished—though he only obeys his master's vengeful voice.

And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?

He held the office as resident land agent of the Holland Land Company for twenty-one years. In this capacity he laid out the city of New Amsterdam, now Buffalo, gave its streets the jaw-breaking names of the Dutch proprietors and made it a flourishing town.

She scooped up a mittenful of snow and began to mould it into a snowball.