One of these once asserted in my hearing that papists were guilty of idolatry, because they prayed to images, and asked favours of them: and if they had done so, he might very justly have called them idolaters, but as they abhor all such pračtices, and anathemise those who are guilty of them, nothing but ignorance can excuse that person from being guilty of slander, and defamation.

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. They do not fear the men beneath the tree; They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

There are only a few genuine social connectors. True connectors collect people like other collectors collect stamps.

Most of the through Leicester-Birmingham workings are non-stop between Leicester and Hinckley, leaving the intermediate stations to be served by the largely hourly stopping trains between Leicester and Nuneaton.