However, despite its exiguity, the vicarage did maintain an independent existence as a benefice, and the College continued to make presentations to the bishop of Worcester.

Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure.

Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.

Con Keeler was past his fortieth birthday and a veteran of more black-bag jobs than he could count.