before this elaborate treatise can become of universal use and ornament to my native country, two points […] are absolutely necessary.

[page 14] [T]wo resort owners in the Ely area were asked if they would be willing to join forces and attempt to get a trail constructed to connect the two businesses and jointly market a ski-thru program. […] [page 15] The end product of this activity was the construction of trail segments linking the existing cross-country ski trails with each other and with the two resorts. In addition to marketing cross-country skiing individually, the two resorts put together a ski-thru package and marketed it in cooperation with Amtrak.

I poked that bastard in the schnozzle, he told himself proudly, and everybody on the crew will thank me.

An adjectival type corresponding phonetically to the masculine third declension imparisyllabics is represented by some O.F. survivals of Latin comparative forms