I 'd rather my money should go to a knight of the road than feed that dragon's jaw.

A highwayman seems an honest fellow compared with your honourable corporation of fly-catchers.

I could surrender to him with some satisfaction after a trial of the better man.

I 've tried these tables, and couldn't stir a pulse.

Have you ?' It had to be explained to Woodseer what was meant by trying the tables.
'Not I,' said he, in strong contempt of the queer allurement.
Lord Fleetwood studied him half a minute, as if measuring and discarding a suspicion of the young philosopher's possible weakness under temptation.
Sir Meeson Corby accompanied the oddly assorted couple through the town and a short way along the road to the mountain, for the sake of quieting his conscience upon the subject of his leaving them together.