When the escuage which was to be paid was uncertain, being more or less according to the pleasure of the king or the assessment of parliament ; then the tenure by escuage was a sort of knight′s service.

[…] three things ought always to be kept under: a mastiff dog, a stone horse and a clown; and really I think a snarling, cross-grained clown to be the most unlucky beast of three.

On November 15, 1396, […] Benedict XIII made him bishop of Noyon;

Does the passenger travelling along M1 in a shining, brightly liveried motor-coach turn to admire the rake of dull maroon coaches hauled by a drab green diesel locomotive on the adjoining railway line?