That sense of the balance between restraint and indulgence is a constant; Berry’s recipes, as elaborated in more than 70 books, cover the culinary waterfront, taking us from the fish pie supper to the flashy bit of patisserie (think of those fiddly mokatines, tiny squares requiring genoise sponge, crème beurre and fondant icing from a recent episode of Bake Off).

If the mint kept back one per cent, to pay the expense of coinage, it would be against the interest of the holders of bullion to have it coined, until the coin was more valuable than the bullion by at least that fraction.

Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.

[…] but the laws and the Extents make us acquainted with another class, somewhat akin to the manorial serf of England, the aillt class.