If someone tries to evade you from the front (see Evading, p. B368) and you have a melee weapon that can parry, you may roll against weapon skill instead of DX in the Contest. You keep him from evading if you win or tie

Grigson sums up this almost utilitarian aspect of the state of detachment thus: Not visited enough, each poet knows His deadly fondness for his own mishaps, The way he fails to sort the full-time births From all his misengendered scraps.

[…] flights of small, low-flying brown doves chased one another to and fro, and bee-eaters, emerald-green, curvetted like slow swallows.

The power sharing deal came as ScotRail, which will be entirely state-run by March 2022, released its Fit for Purpose document that plans to axe 300 services per day compared with pre-pandemic levels ….