Because their wood contains so much water, and fallen baobabs decompose so quickly, the trees are poor fossilizers.

The disgraceful conduct of the Returning Officer for the City of London Election has been the subject of animadversive conversation in our own particular circle.

In some minds, optical computing was wishful thinking on the order of: if we had some ham we could have some ham and eggs—if we had some eggs.

As sparckles from the Anduile vse to fly, / When heauie hammers on the wedge are swaid