Sentence The Threehundredandfiftyninth

Which is exactly how it came to pass that, while Roxy and Lizzie were sitting quietly on the shoulder near the small quarry that Lizzie had identified as the entrance to The Cavern, they saw a motley crew of walkers making their way up the track from Dingleton Road: Auntie Crist led the way, with a grizzled bear of a man lacking any signs of tonsorial scissors in the past six years, who Roxy thought must be Professor Bramble, and a lithe girl who seemed to be carrying all his gear, and they were followed by the other two Wise Men who Roxy knew from her stay at her aunt's house in High Cross Avenue, and then a trio whom she recognised as Crist's cousin, the Suffragan Bishop of Goole, his fancy woman, Kitty O'Toole and the rather soppy Chaplain, who was using Alpine Walking Poles and even then kept falling over and having to be helped up by Mrs O'Toole – who Roxy suddenly realised

 

was wearing stilettos on a hill climb; and on they came, and once within roaring distance, the Professor began BELLOWING questions and waving his arms about, almost knocking Auntie Crist and his Girl Friday over in the process: “oh my god,” thought Roxy, “it's Brian Blessed!” although in

fact Professor Bramble was only the famous LOUD actor's double – or perhaps he had deliberately chosen Blessed as the role model for his own personality, assuming that his hearers were all either deaf or suffering from a complete absence of clairaudience and abandoning all concern for either tonology or declension in favour of maximum VOLUME!