She clipped my hair with her scissors.

Having expected the Rector of Faringdon for some time at my house, I could not so well say whenabout we should endeavour to get to Town ;

While other small nations with large banking sectors, such as Iceland and Ireland, have been undone by their reckless lending practices, the debt-free Channel Islands have always positioned themselves as dependable repositories of riches.

The old volcanistic metaphor is especially apt: a thick, hard crust of earth, beneath which bubbles, hot liquid magma pressing for release above.