Age cannot limit him, nor use exhaust his infinite mendacity. - Joseph Furphy

His arrogance was not without grounds. He more than once unbent himself to confide to my own dad that he (the deponent, not my good old plebeian dad, for heaven's sake!) was the illegitimate son of an illegitimate son of .

Pritchard senior died of some unpronounceable scientific term signifying internal haemorrhage of irascibility and malevolence.

... each man, be he king or beggar, is a little world of his own. If he be swayed by a female, as kings and beggars frequently are, he is an extremely little world.