'Aemulation' was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.

A fingerlike projection called a snood hangs over the front of the beak. When the tom is alert, the snood constricts and projects vertically as a fleshy bump at the top rear of the beak.

The inability to deduct losses from commercial or residential rentals from other real estate income has been a bone in the throat of real estate development companies.

The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'.