A historical reading of sexuality may make living as lesbians and gaymen more difficult, because we cannot plead for acceptance on the basis of being something we can't help and therefore of needing special sets of rights and understanding because we are homosexuals who didn't choose to be who we are.

That dog smells like ass.

Mrs. Rhodes who (so I gathered from Mr. Petherick's careful language) was perhaps just a shade of a hypochondriac, had retired to bed immediately after dinner.

I know that there are some persons who object to it upon moral grounds ; they say that it will continentalise England ; and introduce practices and opinions which I do not believe anything can introduce.