though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I - John Buchan

My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with a welsh rabbit to follow. In longing hopelessly for these dainties I fell asleep.

الحضارة ستدوم فقط حتى يأتى اتفاق آخر ... ضدها.

"Jock put his shoulder to the framework and the whole thing crumbled inward with a crash of glass.
"Rotten as touch-wood," he said. "This place would never stand a siege.