While other small nations with large banking sectors, such as Iceland and Ireland, have been undone by their reckless lending practices, the debt-free Channel Islands have always positioned themselves as dependable repositories of riches.

She clipped my hair with her scissors.

Having expected the Rector of Faringdon for some time at my house, I could not so well say whenabout we should endeavour to get to Town ;

The old volcanistic metaphor is especially apt: a thick, hard crust of earth, beneath which bubbles, hot liquid magma pressing for release above.