Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business.

But words are nothing to the misbelieving -- mere air mouthed into a sound.

Let 𝛼 be an algebraic number with degree n and let P be the minimal polynomial for 𝛼 (see Section 6.5).

Antiromantic and often cynical, Fanny Fern was the originator of the now-famous phrase, The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.