I think of old British colonialists, bred to authority and the wide horizons, living out their pensioned lives in semi-detached houses of cramped suburbia

At the other end of life I have often met exiles from their own times. I think of old British colonialists, bred to authority and the wide horizons, living out their pensioned lives in semi-detached houses of cramped suburbia.

J. Morris, Trieste and the meaning of nowhere (2001), 74

Possesses still, at least for romantics like me, a fragrant sense of what might-have-been

The most appealing aspect of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, at least in retrospect, was its European cosmopolitanism. It had few black , brown or yellow subjects, but it contained within itself half the peoples of Europe. It was multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-faith, bound together only, whether willingly or unwillingly, by the imperial discipline. it was closer to the European community of the twenty-first century than to the British Empire of the the nineteenth and possesses still, at least for romantics like me, a fragrant sense of what might-have-been.

J. Morris, Trieste and the meaning of nowhere (2001), 32

would spend their last drop of blood against Popery but 'do not know whether it be a man or a horse.'

There were 10,000 stout fellows, as Daniel Defoe had written earlier in the century in The Behaviour of Servants, who would spend their last drop of blood against Popery but 'do not know whether it be a man or a horse.'

A. Fraser, The king and the catholics (2018), 3

The model for a husband

A Member of Parliament, with a small house near Eaton Square, with a moderate income, and a liking for committees, who would write a pamphlet once every two years, and read Dante critically during the recess, was, to her, the model for a husband.

A. Trollope, The Belton Estate (1865), 104

I hope to see all the Protestants fry in theire own grease beefore Michaelmas next

At that time [the beginning of the reign of James II] a limner was imployed to beautyfy the Parish church at Ellesmeare. This Clarke went to see his worke, and said, 'You doe well to leave the Church in good repaire for us; for you had it from us in good order.
The limner (knowing him to be a Papist) said, 'What, doe you think the Papists must have the Church?' '
Yes, I doe' says Clarke.
Then sayes the limner, 'What doe you think shall become of us Protestants?'
Then Clarke answeared, 'I hope to see all the Protestants fry in theire own grease beefore Michaelmas next.'

R. Gough, The history of Myddle (1700), ed. D. Hey (1981), 173-4

Unfit in cricketing ability so much as to tie up Boycott's bootlaces

Yorkshire were involved in another of those internal disputes which have been so much a part of their recent history. A clash between Ray Illingworth, manager of the Yorkshire team, and Geoff Boycott, hallowed by many of his fellow Yorkshiremen, revealed Headingley as a hotbed of dissension, with sides being manifestly taken. It seems an absurdity when young members of the Yorkshire team, unfit in cricketing ability so much as to tie up Boycott's bootlaces, were asked to vote on whether or not they wanted to play with him any more

J. Woodcock, 'Notes by the editor', id. (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1982), 90

And there was Warne, bowling beautifully with a method thought to have been relegated to the museum

Shortly after lunch on the first day the Edgbaston Test in 1993, Shane Warne was bowing leg-breaks to Alec Stewart, who had momentarily discarded both his helmet and his faded baseball cap in favour of a real, old-fashioned, three lions of England version. As he pushed forward he looked the image of his father at the crease. behind the stumps, there was Ian Healy wearing his baggy cap and air of ageless Australian aggression. And there was Warne, bowling beautifully with a method thought to have been relegated to the museum.

M. Engel, 'Notes by the editor', id. (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1994), 9