He responded readily, and put the case for alcohol with much point and vehemence.

The discussion interested the soldiers, and one of them, to show he was on Linklater's side, produced a flask and offered him a drink.

I concluded by observing morosely that the bagman had been a better man when he peddled books for Alexander Matheson, and that put the closure on the business.
That train was a record.

It stopped at every station, and in the afternoon it simply got tired and sat down in the middle of a moor and reflected for an hour.

I stuck my head out of the window now and then, and smelt the rooty fragrance of bogs, and when we halted on a bridge I watched the trout in the pools of the brown river.