sent, like so many other German enterprises, the end of the beginning.–Times. (The reversal this time is clearly facetious)
But they had gone on adding misdeed to misdeed, they had blundered after blunder.–L. Courtney.
Germany has, it would appear, yet another card in her hand, a card of the kind which is useful to players when in doubt.–Times.
But the problem of inducing a refractory camel to squeeze himself through the eye of an inconvenient needle is and remains insoluble.–Times.
But these unsoldierlike recriminations among the Russian officers as well as their luxurious lives and their complete insouciance in the presence of their country's misfortunes, seems to have set back the hand on the dial of Japanese rapprochement.–Times.
Is there no spiritual purge to make the eye of the camel easier for a South-African millionaire?–Times.
And so it has come to pass that, not only where invalids do congregate, but in places hitherto reserved for the slimmer recreation of the tourist or the mountaineer there is a growing influx of winter pleasure-seekers.–Times.
Salmasius alone was not unworthy sublimi flagello.–Landor.
Even if a change were desirable with Kitchener duce et auspice.–Times.
Charged with carrying out the Military Member's orders, but having, pace Sir Edwin Collen, no authority of his own.–Times.
It is not in the interests of the Japanese to close the book of the war, until they have placed themselves in the position of beati possidentes.–Times. (Beati possidentes is a sentence, meaning Blessed are those who are in possession; to fit it into another sentence is most awkward)
Resignation became a virtue of necessity for Sweden in hopes that a better understanding might in time grow out of the new order of things.–Times. (In the original phrase, of necessity does not depend on virtue, but on make; and it is intolerable without the word that gives it its meaning)
Many of the celebrities who in that most frivolous of watering-places do congregate.–Baroness von Hutten.
If misbehaviour be not checked in an effectual manner before long, there is every prospect that the whips of the existing Motor Act will be transformed into the scorpions of the Motor Act of the future.–Times.
A special protest should be made against the practice of introducing a quotation in two or three instalments of a word or two, each with its separate suit of quotation marks. The only quotations that should be cut up are those that are familiar enough to need no quotation marks, so that the effect is not so jerky.
