When men multiplied, says the author, they had daughters of an exquisite beauty, so amiable that the Egregores, or the guardian Angels, conceived a violent passion for them.

Years before airconditioning, the breezers, which were open on all sides, gave trolley customers naturally cool air.

An investigation of the irregularities in the company's accounts uncovered a large-scale fraud.

The entrancement of a child by the bright lights and other paraphernalia of a pantomime is a magical sight.