[S]uch a Tradition [i.e., oral tradition] were incompetent without written Monuments to derive to us, at ſo long a diſtance, the Original Laws and Conſtitutions of the Kingdom, becauſe they are of a complex Nature, and therefore not orally traducible to ſo great a Diſtance of Ages, unleſs we had the Original or Authentick Tranſcript of thoſe Laws, […]

a well done steak

The Eskimos entertain a great fear of the Tupilat, the Spirits of the Dead, who kill every one daring to offend them.

Just before she ceased, her arms stretched out right froggily, her weird eyes rolled about, and she gulped a mighty gulp of the strange thin medium...