"I don't know," he said. "I'd like to, but petrol gets into the blood, you know."
I suppose it does.
"Dr. Grenfell remarked that the tourist traffic [to Labrador] was beginning to grow. Life in winter was very attractive, and was enjoyed as people enjoyed winter in Norway. One of his few personal reminiscences was how he fell through the ice and expected to be frozen to death."—Manchester Guardian.
Us for Labrador, every time.
Paragraph in a petition addressed to a Government official by a Baboo who wished to protest against the conduct of another Baboo:—
"His hatred of me is so much that in the heat of his animosity he wilfully omitted to put in the formal ephithet 'Mr.' to my name, which no man of honour would drop because not so much for disregarding me, but that he would be doing injustice to the European etiquette."