"One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your w…"

"Hush, hush, Nobody cares! Has Fallen Down- Stairs."

"Dr. Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht has patented a new invention. It is an illuminated trouser-clip for bic…"

"Rush hour: that hour when traffic is almost at a standstill."

"The man with the false nose had gone to that bourne from which no hollingsworth returns."

"Erratum. In my article on the price of milk, 'horses' should have read 'cows' throughout."

"Mr. Justice Cocklecarrot began the hearing of a very curious case yesterday. A Mrs. Tasker is accused of continually …"

"She became most fervent, continually risking her life by harbouring and maintaining priests, was frequently imprisone…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"