Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

Spray BT on your young oak to protect against gypsy moths, and you wipe out future lunas, cecropias, and everything else on the leaves, along with the pests.

Hardy almost giggled, but he stopped himself in time—giggling would seem unmanly. But this was fun on a bun with all the trimmings.

A grammaticalizing item decategorializes (Hopper 1991), losing membership of its source category. As a result of high frequency, it may become independently entrenched (Bybee 2006), receiving a kind of categorial autonomy, […]