Forgiveness and making bargains are oil and water. They don't mix.

… far more reduced kingdom of Magic. I am the case of real distress. I am the Magician without a shoe to stand on. My glory is departed — mine, Ichabod the Magician. Before faydom existed, was Magic, awful, erect, weird, inscrutable.

Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.

It is generally allowed that birds have risen out of reptiledom.