After 100 traps, the arresting cables have to be replaced to minimize the danger of a worn or fatigued cable snapping under an aircraft.

What I’m going to say is, they think I’m a peasant or something. Imagine a peasant at second-base for the Cardinals! But that’s not the big thing. The big thing is she doesn’t want to be an acrobat or an acrobatess or whatever you call them. She can’t be. She’s ticklish.

The hawk had mounted its thermal by the time he got to the yard, flapping its wings violently against the updraft.

Thirty people made their Communion in a Church beautifully decorated with the glowing colours of dahlias and other summer flowers: pulpit, screen, lectern, font, windows, shelves and all other decoratable fixtures being aglow with dazzling hues on Sunday last.