As a sealer and whalefisher she had earned fat dividends for Dundee owners ; as the S. Y. Windward she had made history, and helped to found the British colony of Elmwood in Franz Josef's Land, and had been iced up for an Arctic winter in a bay at the back of Cape Flora; and on this trip she was destined (although no one even guessed at it them) to acquire a far more international fame.

I've been told repeatedly that electricity above the waist is dangerous, but I've seen guys using violet wands on other guys' chests.

Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.

“Marry, what is't?” cried one fellow[…]“Is't a thwittle shaft?” “Ay, or it may be the half of a shuttle,” said another; “dost note, it tapers to the end, and is biggest i' the middle? I warrant Saint Dunstan was a clothier, and made many an ell of stout broella.” “'Tis more like he was a butcher,” cried one of that fraternity, “if ye go by likes; for 'tis the very model of a thwittle shaft, and white ash to boot.”