Finding his door-knob in the dark, you could reason out the position of stove, and chair, and table; and placing an arrow at the back of the book on one end of the shelf, it would fly to the other end, equally grazing all the bindings.

It is ten years since John Milton, or Robert Southey, or Sir William Hamilton have been out of their places, and that was when an ignoramus broke into the study.

The volumes of the encyclopedias never change places.

Manuscripts unblotted, and free from interlineation, and labeled.

The spittoon knows its place in the corner, as if treated by tobacco chewers with oft indignity.