putting his fortune to the test.
would be sacked instanter
She had defined his own trade to a nicety.
I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences
There were flaws in each.
You've got a cinch. You've only got to hand a story to the police. Any old tale will do for them.
As a consequence, because his nerves were strained, he lit his cigarette very languidly, very carefully, and with an offensive superiority which was to Mr Birdsey the last straw.
The result was a little unexpected.
There's a divinity that shapes our ends. Consider the case of Henry