They might provide against that loss by picking out a few of us to keep for ornament's sake.

No nation with a sense of beauty would banish Lady Brandon, or Miss Lindsay, or Miss Wylie." "Such nonsense!" said Jane.
"You would hardly believe how much I have spent in sending workmen out of the country against my own view of the country's interest," continued Trefusis, addressing Erskine.

"When I make a convert among the working classes, the first thing he does is to make a speech somewhere declaring his new convictions.

His employer immediately discharges him--'gives him the sack' is the technical phrase.

The sack is the sword of the capitalist, and hunger keeps it sharp for him.