[…]the application must first acquire a lock on a file or a portion of a file before reading data and modifying it.

A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

It was a humble little plant, fragile, a fledgling shrub with a few sprays of leaves—a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

Lord Harvey is doing his best to find if there be a 'yes' in the world. It would require—what is that rule in arithmetic? ah!—long division, to reckon up the number of refusals he has had this season!