That ne'er quails me, at which your greatest quake; Which the time then did utterly distaste

Argumentum anti-Normannicum: or, An argument proving, from ancient histories and records, that William, Duke of Normandy, made no absolute conquest of England by the sword; in the sense of our modern writers.

But no sooner have we actually arrived at a station and debouched on its platform, and some nice old dear of a pater-familias-looking gentleman has got his tobacco roll alight,—than up comes our determined smokeress, and looks at him as innocent as a newborn babe; so of course he instantly becomes self-convicted of a solecism, and with floundering apologies humbly offers her a light; and she takes it too; but then, as she can only persuade her own aromatic leaf to ignite thoroughly while he is pulling away with all his lungs at his, why there necessarily ensues a most piquant tête-à-tête, as they look intensely for a minute or so right into each other’s countenances, at only the length of two cigars apart and the glowing little spark between.

The steepness of the foreslope affects the rate of single-vehicle accidents.