The common lawyers of England have for centuries gloried in their ignorance of the civil law, and maintained the indescribable superiority of the common law of England, ...

Forester soon took an aversion to the game of goff, and recollected Scotch reels with less contempt.

an airborne alert; ground alert

“It is only since the first world war that the Light Sussex has beeen developed as a commercial egg-producer.” See ref. p38.