In the case of the towns, to which the reckoning by hides could not be applied, the Danegeld or hidage was probably compounded for, and such composition represents no doubt the later talliage.

The heat brought sweat and the sweat blinded. Black flinders gyrated in the fiery air like bats.

Little Steel (smaller steel companies, as contrasted with Big Steel)

Facebook’s unencumbered, efficient, agile, hackerish style is to make everything seem ‘easy’ – and when you need, in one of Zuckerberg’s favourite phrases, to ‘move fast and break things’, you just shrug.