It was so in the England of Alfred's day; the maternal kinsfolk paid a third of the wer. The Leges Henrici, which about such a matter will not be inventing new rules, tell us that the paternal kinsfolk pay and receive two-thirds, the maternal kinsfolk one-third of the wer; and this is borne out by other evidence.

Nor does it work for governance: the policy has become such a mastodon that we can't adapt it quickly enough to different regions or different circumstances.

These preliminary experiments indicate that echo-sounding equipment may be of considerable use in the study of sublacune geology.

1914: Sinclair Lewis, Our Mr. Wrenn - So? Lived there long? Uh-huh, I-- began Mr. Wrenn.