We batted around in our half of the inning.

He worked the levers.

Hope, not only as concerning the future state: that, it is to be trusted, all men possess: but hope as regards the present, and the to-come, of our little narrow world.

As a recovering cookieholic, I really was not interested in buying any. However, as I yielded to temptation, I focused on the healthy ones, with fiber and such.