By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.

It will need the most exhilarating performance City have put together since the money started to pour in and the overwhelming evidence is that it looks wholly beyond them.

[…]for several virtues Have I lik'd several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, And put it to the foil[…].

What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?