Noght o word spak he moore than was neede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence ...

She takes a large, gossamer scarf from the trunk and drapes it about her shoulders.

By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were not only encouraged to have their newborn sons snipped, but to belatedly enjoy the benefits themselves.

Leslie felt confident enough of that also, but the pudeur of composition (when the author has written what he felt) made him shrink from so much talk about it.