[I]n the year 1752, which we may reckon among ſome of our moiſteſt Summers throughout England, more Rain fell at London than at Plymouth, according to an eſtimate made at both places; […]

From the middle of June in 1913 and the first of July in 1914, it became the dominate species, forming 90 per cent. or more of the fauna, and remained so until the end of the season.

Everywhere the vintagers are busy detaching the grapes with their little hook-shaped serpettes […]

Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure.