Hellenistic Judaism was familiar with the idea that deceit is characteristic of the end times (see T. Levi 10:2; 16:1).

Seabiscuit, wrote another reporter, “was a hero in California and a pretty fair sort of horse in the midwest. In the east, however, he was just a ‘bumʼ”

The sun glared down on the desert sand.

Pro hatbandys de serico negro [sic], ijs (1412-1413) is a far cry from A hat-bande with xviij gowlde buttons (1594), but the imaginative talent of the 14th century was concentrated on the possibilities of feathers and the turbanizing of the hood.