Defenders of Southern slavery employed religious rhetoric to justify the system, selecting biblical passages that appeared to condone the practice of slaveholding and the relation between master and slave.

Miners ate oggies down the Cornish mines, and one of Henry VIII's wives wrote a letter mentioning Cornish pasties […]

When the vernal equinoctal sun passed from one zodiacal constellation to the next, an Age ended and a new one began:

Gary and Mum went mental, and Gary phoned them up and had a right Barney with them.