There were middle-aged gentlemen spending a week-end in one of the large hotels, carefully dressed; and they walked industriously after too
substantial a breakfast to give themselves an appetite for too
substantial a luncheon: they exchanged the time of day with friends and talked of Dr.
they had dumplings too; small, but
substantial, symmetrically globular, and indestructible dumplings.
"Pardon me, your worship," said Sancho, "for, as I cannot read or write, as I said just now, I neither know nor comprehend the rules of the profession of chivalry: henceforward I will stock the alforjas with every kind of dry fruit for your worship, as you are a knight; and for myself, as I am not one, I will furnish them with poultry and other things more
substantial."
The airy phantoms that flit before the distempered imaginations of some of its adversaries would quickly give place to the more
substantial forms of dangers, real, certain, and formidable.