Had I but known, I could have made twenty shifts; nay, for that matter, and in so good a cause, I would have thought little to have prigged a prancer from the next common--it had but been sending back the brute to the headborough.

The farcy and the founders confound every horse in the stables of the Black Bear!" The lady endeavoured to comfort her guide, observing that the dawn would enable him to make more speed.
"True, madam," he replied; "but then it will enable other folk to take note of us, and that may prove an ill beginning of our journey.

I had not cared a spark from anvil about the matter had we been further advanced on our way.

But this Berkshire has been notoriously haunted, ever since I knew the country, with that sort of malicious elves who sit up late and rise early for no other purpose than to pry into other folk's affairs.

I have been endangered by them ere now.