His great feet planted on their heels faced him, suggesting the stocks; his arms hung loose.

Full many a hero of the alehouse, anciently amenable to leg-and-foot imprisonment in the grip of the parish, has presented as respectable an air.

His forelock straggled as it willed.
Rosamund rose abruptly as soon as the terminating notes of the Mass had been struck.
Dr.Shrapnel seemed to be concluding his devotions before he followed her example.
'There, ma'am, you have a telegraphic system for the soul,' he said.

'It is harder work to travel from this place to this' (he pointed at ear and breast) 'than from here to yonder' (a similar indication traversed the distance between earth and sun).

'Man's aim has hitherto been to keep men from having a soul for this world: he takes it for something infernal.