It had been of all things the most harassing and wearying—a life of dreary necessitude—a perpetual struggle with debt.

An environmentally conscious population labels the phenomenon of land degradation in Australia (specifically, the erosion of top-soil and salination caused by irrigation after deforestation) as AIDS of the earth; the same metaphor is used in America.

... Bee Wise with Bee Pollen, Bee Propolis, Royal Jelly smoothies or other drinks, or it may be eaten plain as a snack food by the spoonful.

I can understand your being wicked, she said keenly, but not your being cowardly. That is and was unpardonable.