1. Harland possessed a keen sense of humour, and withal had a poetical gift which was appreciated wherever it was known.

2. There have been many bumps in US–Indian relations during this period; but withal, India is the kind of country that the Bush doctrine says deserves our support.

3. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again" (Luke 6:38). The Revised Standard Version says, "Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap.

4. The opening stage direction of Major Barbara, put into the past tense, could be a passage from any middlebrow Edwardian novel: "Lady Britomart is a woman of 50 or thereabouts, well dressed and yet careless of her dress, well bred and quite reckless of her breeding, well mannered and yet appallingly outspoken and indifferent to the opinion of her interlocutors, amiable and yet peremptory, arbitrary, and high–tempered to the last bearable degree, and withal a very typical managing matron of the upper class, treated as a naughty child until she grew into a scolding mother, and finally settling down with plenty of practical ability and worldly experience ..." It‘s not at all clear how the poor actress is expected to make all of that apparent to the audience, but that‘s not the point; it is a slightly sad homage to a form Shaw knows he could never convincingly master.