To do at least the first, it was resolved that we should visit the worthy gentleman en masse, to give him, the opportunity of exercising his hospitlity upon the present occasion, an acceptance of which, as he had an extremely agreeable wife, and some remarkably pretty cousins, we naturally preferred to the male, matter-of-fact dinner at our ostelry, which, however agreeable per se, sank to mortal dulness by comparison, in our then young minds , with the coterie, or more properly the petticoatery, at the castellated mansion of our presumed host.

Perhaps, in some variation of Joe Buck's gay hustler in John Schlesinger's 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy, Anna was being sucked into the footlicking scene for want of making the big time, getting in a good group show, or being able to ...

The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.

, (informal) church