The sound of them as they talked was like the roaring of the sea as Homer heard it.

Never did Castor and Pollux come surging into battle as Dr.Boomer and Dr.Boyster bore down upon the Grand Palaver Hotel.
Tomlinson, the Wizard of Finance, had hesitated about going to the university.

The university was coming to him.

As for those millions of his, he could take his choice--dormitories, apparatus, campuses, buildings, endowment, anything he liked but choose he must.

And if he feared that, after all, his fortune was too vast even for such a disposal, Dr.Boomer would show him how he might use it in digging up ancient Mitylene, or modern Smyrna, or the lost cities of the Plain of Pactolus.