Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.