← "I explained it all in the preface to Negations. 🔊
← But, did you explain, for instance, that there was no such thing as bad or good grammar?" 🔊
← I found in the preface no clue to the labyrinth of contents, and in that labyrinth nothing to explain the preface. 🔊
← "Though not an Englishman," he explained, "I know my London well, Mr. Soames. 🔊
← "I hadn't time to look at them very closely," he explained. 🔊
← The fact that people are going to stare at him and follow him around and seem afraid of him, can be explained only on the hypothesis that they will somehow have been prepared for his ghostly visitation. 🔊