The general who became

a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who

defied an emperor. Striking 

Complete inversion:

Poor Mary. How much Jack

loved her! What will he do now? I wish it hadn't happened. Poor Mary.

It (the tent) is soaked and heavy, and it flogs about, and tumbles down

on you, and clings round your head, and makes you mad.

The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been

the jail.

It

was an afternoon to dream. And she took out John’s letters.

The bomb completely

destroyed the church, the house, the flower pot.

It was a symptom

of dangerous disease. The disease that nobody noticed in the beginning.

And now think of

where we need to go: an economy based not on consumption and debt but on

savings and investment, not on government spending but on entrepreneurial dynamism,

not on one industry in one corner of the country but on all our businesses in

all our regions.

The world is

getting better, a lot better. In significant and far-reaching ways, the world

is a better place to live than it has ever been.