See the frowardneſſe of this Man, he would perſwade us that the Succeſſion and divine Right of Biſhopdom hath bin unqueſtionable through all Ages;

The Soviet Union, he [Marlin Fitzwater] insisted, was engaged “in a very strange pattern of public-relations gambits”; he compared Mikhail Gorbachev to a “drugstore cowboy,” an old-fashioned term for a pretentious impostor.]

Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.

The neighbouring Districts of Lien-chiang and Lo-yuan were injured by the same storm, the former rather the more severely of the two.