The set of complex numbers constitutes a field extension of degree 2 over the real numbers.

If you are familiar with Dr. Fraser's Golden Bough you will know how the thing was done in ancient times before civilisation came to cabbalise superstition and change it from an instrument of modest priestly gain into one of enormous universal loss.

I've had six Beroccas and it's only just gone ten on a Monday morning and I'm buzzing like a bee on heat—if there is such a thing. I've got to decide what I'm wearing for the New York trip. Okay, it's in a week's time so why am I sweating now?

And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.