To protect himself against his ignorance in either instance, the producer may accuse the composer of too much integrity, and find him too slow, too artyfarty, too obstinate, too costly, too much of a perfectionist.

After hearing the news he became meditative.

The mill-house, like the family of the miller, is for Hardy a representative part of the unhistory of the country, what we now know as local history, and which many consider to be the only sure basis of any historical knowledge;

Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening through parcellation and civil wars between the heirs.