Saint Withold footed thrice the ’old; He met the nightmare, and her nine fold;

Also with Aylward that month, he went to the dinner of the Gridiron Club which brings together the great and the near-great of American politics for semi-annual lampoonings.

There's nothing in the fridge. Let's send out for pizza.

This version of length arises naturally from the recursive definition of a list: “a list is either the empty list or an element consed onto another list.”