The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between.

Income inequality usually shrinks during a recession, but in the Great Recession, it didn’t. From 2007 to 2009, the most-recent years for which data are available, it widened a little. […] It’s hard to miss just how unevenly the Great Recession has affected different classes of people in different places.

The Welch Glaive is a kind of bill, ſometimes reckoned among the pole axes. They were formerly much in uſe. … In the Britiſh Muſeum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authoriſing him to impreſs ſmiths for making two thouſand Welch bills or glaives.

Her childhood had not been as bad as some, but it had been no picnic.