Jack boot

"This I think necessary to remedy by the scale herewith sent, by which your readers will perceive, that though it is a little larger than a jack boot, as that was necessary for the circumambient steam, yet that it is by no means so large as not to be easily portable, more especially as the pneumatic parts take off, and can be easily placed along with the biler into the inside of the cylinder, and the whole enclosed in a neat mahogany box."

"I won't say she imagined SS men jack booting through her life, but I believe that for some time she and a large number of my friends had secretly felt that I was capable of a radical personality change, that my purchase on reality was just thin enough to let me jump the groove."