There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.

a tidy sum

“Sonny Carson got more crack houses closed than the entire Police Department,” Mr. Barron said during the premeeting rally.

[…]and yet this is but the ἀρχή ὠδίνων, the Beginning of those evils which shall never End till eternity hath a period[…]