The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.

Such langwidge, he says, is unbecoming and beneath Me—leastways unless it is remembered in the wages.

that subsisting form of government from which all special laws emanate

If (X,𝜏) is a topological space, then a cover ℬ is open if each B∈ℬ is an open set. A topological space (X,𝜏) is compact if every open cover of X has a finite subcover.