We feel bound to add, however, that it is not very likely, in the usual chances of events, that such names as Alaric Attila Watts should have met in matrimony with those of Zillah Madonna Wiffen; and an unkind world may suggest a mystification somewhere.

And first we must call attention to the fact that two classes of vessels appear to have been employed, distinguished by the name of Aphract, unfenced, or Cataphract, fenced, according as the rowers of the upper tier were protected or exposed. Both classes were decked and floored, but the Aphract class carried their decks and flooring lower than the Cataphract, so that in them the rowers of the upper tier were visible above the side of the vessel; … [F]rom the time of the invention by the Thasians of this system, all the larger vessels of war used by both Greeks and Romans were Cataphract. In the Cataphract trireme, the space allowed for each oarsman was, according to [B.] Graser, eight square feet per man, and this proportion was observed in the larger vessels up to the octireme.

To wood-elf and field-elf I pour out this greeting, And bid you bless this holy rite.

Then maybe some preacher got a tad too zealous on Sunday Thinking of his frog-strangler, Lucy said, In Montana, we'd call this a gullywasher. Gullywasher. I like that. She could hear him, up there on the island in Thomas Jefferson's ...