Still, we simply can't get any one else, and Higgins will not apply for a few German prisoners.

Get on with your work, you people, do.

There, you see, they defy me to an extent.

Ever since the cowmen dipped me in the horse-pond my authority's gone--gone where the good niggers go." I find that there are quite a lot of people who cannot say the word "gone" without adding the clause about the good niggers.

These people have vague minds, sown like an allotment with phrases in grooves.
Directly the dragon said "to an extent" without qualifying the extent, one saw why it had no gift of discipline.
"I wouldn't attempt this job," it continued, winding breathlessly along the rutty road, "only I am under a great obligation to Richard Higgins.
I am a _protidgy_ of his, you know, he rescued me from a lot of mischievous knights who were persecuting me.