If Kathy had been with us, she'd have countered with a few ha-has of her own, thus guaranteeing a laugh at his expense.

Though the metropole remained confident in its Westminster ways, its newly independent colonies imposed constitutional constraints on the powers of parliament.

Throw it into the trash barrel.

'Twere back-end o' t' yeer, he continued at last, "an' t' lads had gone into t' woods to gether hesel-nuts an' accorns.