We, the undersigned wagon-masters, assistants, teamsters and all other employees of the firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell, do hereby sign that we will not swear, drink whisky, play cards or be cruel to dumb beasts in any way, shape or form.

Illness confronts the self with partiality, incompleteness, and mortality.

He cocked his eye slightly: She has rheumatism. Apic acid, they say, is the best cure. Better make sure first, murmured Dinny, that they'll sting her. You can't get bees to sting people they like. You can always sit on them, murmured Fleur.

[…] the basis of a reformed constitution was laid, by the appointment of a grand council, consisting of all such citizens as could prove that their proximate ancestors had shared in the offices or honours of the state.