This became necessary because the 1982 exchange rate devaluation virtually bankrupted the Chilean financial sector (Loser 1987). The banks had borrowed large sums denominated in dollars and on-loaned them to domestic borrowers […]

The procedure of pulse palpation is termed sphygmology, literally meaning 'the study of the pulse'.

the church-lands lying within the same, which were called the Cross

Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.