Every rich and goodnatured lord was pestered by authors with a mendicancy so importunate, and a flattery so abject, as may in our time seem incredible.

People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction.

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We mean business, Chuck Blaine, general manager of Group W Cable in West Palm Beach, said at an elaborate press conference staged to publicize the crackdown on what one cable official called telefelonies that cost the companies more than $11 million in revenue a year.