Every yachtsman knows that if the ballast of a ship be too afore or too astern.

The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate.

[Lady Mary] Wroth alludes to these contexts as the corona of sonnets that crowns the sequence opens: In this strang labourinth how shall I turne? (Wroth, Poems 127).

There was lots of rice, at least 20 different veggies and all kinds of soups.