If you do not keep a tight hold of your head, you come away with the desire to start an agitation for the inception of the bull-ring in England as an aid to chivalry.

No doubt Torquemada was convinced of the humanity of the Inquisition.

To a stout gentleman, suffering, perhaps, from cramp or rheumatism, an hour or so on the rack was really a physical benefit.

He would rise feeling more free in his joints--more elastic, as one might say, than he had felt for years.

English huntsmen regard the fox as an animal to be envied.