I was shown into a pretty but rather close drawing-room, and there sat Agnes, netting a purse.

Then let’s all hold communion instead of confrontation, you Marys, Margarets, Megs, you mothers, sisters, daughters; it’s family reunion that finds by acclamation we’re sick of treading eggs.

As lawmakers and staff rushed out, aides snatched the boxes containing the Electoral College certificates, making sure that the vandals could not literally steal the results of the election.

If a person hires a ship and loads her or not entirely, and wishes to unload her, before she sets sail, he shall pay half the ship’s freight. But if the ship has sailed a kenning’s way seawards, he shall pay the shipmaster his full freight. [Footnote: kenning […] This phrase is applied in the Rutter of the Sea to signify the distance from one headland to another in sight. Vol. I., p. 115.]