After he'd convinced you you'd only got one leg – the left – he'd sell you a gross of right-footed shoes. Cheap at half the price! A real bargain. Afterwards, you'd feel you'd been done a favour to, and obligingly walk off with a limp.

We don't know precisely how far it had advanced, or how much Danzig Willie altered the original plans; but during reharling operations by the National Trust for Scotland in 1973, the architects found that in the hall there was a window that had been blocked up.

The combined efforts of the emergency workers kept the river from going over its banks, barely.

a recurrent nerve or artery