Explanatory answers were vouchsafed to Aminta's modest inquiries at Finch, as she pictured scenes of smoke, dust and blood from the overpowering plain masculine lines they drew, terrible in bluntness.
The third morning Lord Ormont had map and book to verify distances and attempt a scale of heights, take names of estates, farms, parishes, commons, patches of woodland.

Weyburn wrote his fair copy on folio paper, seven-and-thirty pages.

He read it aloud to the author on the afternoon of the fourth day, with the satisfaction in his voice that he felt.

My lord listened and nodded.

The plan for the defence of England's heart was a good plan.
He signed to have the manuscript handed to him.