The word sounds pleasantly in their ears, as appertaining to good old gracious times and good old gracious things.

As honey falls fast from the mouth of the practised speaker, the less practised hearer is apt to catch more of the words than of the sense.

The speech of Mr.Daubeny was taken all in good part by his assembled friends.

But when it was read by the quidnuncs on the following day it was found to contain so deep a meaning that it produced from Mr.Ratler's mouth those words of fear which have been already quoted.
Could it really be the case that the man intended to perform so audacious a trick of legerdemain as this for the preservation of his power, and that if he intended it he should have the power to carry it through?
The renewal of inquiry as to the connection which exists between the Crown and the Mitre, when the bran was bolted could only mean the disestablishment of the Church.

Mr.Ratler and his friends were not long in bolting the bran.