[…] simple transmission mechanism and lessened tyre wear as compared with internal combustion-engined vehicles.

He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence.

The fact is that a considerable number of Rembrandt's original coppers are still in material existence, though the greater part of them have been so much deteriorated by wear, and so injured by retouchings and rebitings, as to be artistically valueless.

Psalms 40:11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord