A stringless guitar is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
... the case of the Midland and the case of the Great Eastern (his Lordship had been referring to the reasons for special scales). The case of the Midland we found to be very peculiar, because, unlike most of the other railway companies,...
Regardless of belief, all secular and ecclesiastical authorities pursued similar policies of ‘confessionalization’ intended to impose the official faith of their territory through education, improved clerical supervision and more intensive ‘visitations’ to probe individual belief and monitor religious practices.
How was it possible that I, a rational man, not unacquainted with the leading scientific facts of our history, and hitherto an absolute and utter disbeliever in all the hocus-pocus which in Europe goes by the name of the supernatural, could believe that I had within the last few minutes been engaged in conversation with a woman two thousand and odd years old?
