The project kicked off with an energy-sapping meeting.

What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]

Mrs. Grote to Sir William Molesworth, Bart., M.P. / Solothurn, 13th August, 1837. / […] “Mousing” in the “Buchhandlerungen” is the great pastime, lugging away armsfull of stuff to cram the carriage withal, to the dismay of poor “Henry,” who is at his wits’ end how to stow the same so as to leave room for “Mistress” to get in.

A ship's weather shore is an island's lee shore.