He suffered from ill treatment.

On other occasions, where the technical basis for the initial entry cannot be defended, the second mover has the advantage, since it may well be less costly to retro-engineer a product than to have invented and innovated it.

Here is a spy of the enemy, General, said the Sergeant. / Make short shrift of him! We have no time for court-martials now. / He's been condemned already, sir. He's the same man that was rescued from under the gallows by Commodore Stout's men.

Hear the loud alarum bells — / Brazen bells! / What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells!