If a man with large means intends to raise for wool merely, or principally, I leave it open to him to select Negrettes or Combwools, as both will pay with necessary care; and although I belong to the old merino school, I am last to deny the qualities of a Cotswold.

A penalty of praemunire involved imprisonment for an indefinite period, ending only with death or the King's pardon. Examples of long continuous imprisonment of praemunired Quakers were the imprisonment of Francis Howgill from 1664 till his death in prison […]

A green shirt with orange slacks really doesn’t do it for me, I’m afraid.

Thousands of words and uses of words, on their first appearance, or revival, as candidates for vernacularization, must have met with repugnance, expressed or unexpressed.