Professional biking is plagued with controversies over drug use.

Divines […] are chosen as the ministers of mercy, and the great reconcilers of the world[…]

Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.

I look at the little sprigs of chickweed trembling among the bean shoots and I am strangely moved. Such steadfastness! Such yearning! They want to live too. That is all they ask: to have their little moment in the world.