Let’s now, by way of innocent example, take a Decembrish lyric of mine, which alludes to the multiple, haunting, sliding, imprecise slather of meanings for Christmas which persist for us up here, even where Christmas begins to mark the champagnesque season of surf, hot sand, sunburn and cold ham.

Fenugreek plant was introduced to Central Europe by Benedictine monks, and it is promoted in the 9th century by Charlemagne. It was grown extensively in the imperial gardens of Charlemagne (Popova, 2017).

But while physical cheating is publicly condemned and clear-cut enough to identify, there's a tinier form of cheating that can sting just as much: micro-cheating.

Puff—puff—puff—went John’s pipe; and as the circling smoke-rings went up, the pictures therein framed became as distinct as if they had been drawn by the delicate pencil of Hammatt Billings.