A deed of a feme covert, to be valid, must be executed by the husband also.

The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).

The coffee is smooth and slips down a treat, the grass strong, home-grown and free. It pisses all over that oily Moroccan muck.

[T]he sedate monk's hood lifted its head still higher and looked gloomily and wickedly down on it, while it nodded and kept time to the cuckoo's song, as if it were counting how many days it had to live.