The vicar was one of the notable men of his day; his wife was a pattern of industry, a notable housekeeper. While the birds were chirping their matin song, she might be seen with her besom in her hand.
Is this a bona fide transaction, or is it a Machiavelian attempt to inveigle the prelate into an imbroglio?
A booth was erected at the fair where the pretty Misses Agnes and Rosalind with much complaisance dispensed gratis to the visitors, soda-water flavored with orgeat or sarsaparilla.
General Silvester and his protégé, Reginald, met with a casualty that nearly cost them their lives. The horses attached to their Brougham became frightened at a yacht and made a tremendous leap over a high embankment into a creek.
At the zoological garden was found nearly every animal extant, from a mouse to a camelopard.