1 Had hoped when in the English Channel to be able to signal for help or get in somewhere.
2 A table in the centre was littered with English magazines and newspapers, though none of them were of very recent date.
3 He had been paid for his work by an English bank note, which had been duly cashed for gold at the Danube International Bank.
4 This was corroborated by his landlord, who had received by messenger the key of the house together with the rent due, in English money.
5 Seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached.
6 In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English books, whole shelves full of them, and bound volumes of magazines and newspapers.
7 I asked him why, for I feared that he, being a foreigner, might not be quite aware of English legal requirements, and so might in ignorance make some unnecessary trouble.
8 You shall, I trust, rest here with me awhile, so that by our talking I may learn the English intonation; and I would that you tell me when I make error, even of the smallest, in my speaking.
9 With some difficulty I got a fellow-passenger to tell me what they meant; he would not answer at first, but on learning that I was English, he explained that it was a charm or guard against the evil eye.
10 I did not know what to do, for, as an English Churchman, I have been taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous, and yet it seemed so ungracious to refuse an old lady meaning so well and in such a state of mind.