Jinx rubbed his head against him and sighed. 'I hate to say this, but I really do think you might be cursed. And when I say “might be”...' 'You mean definitely, a hundred per cent, curseder than a curseder thing.' 'Looks that way.'

But I recall that those tin openers ran hot opening tin after tin of rubberised peach quarters and pulverised fruit salad to fill the hollow legs of an expanding population.

“He never had any intention of finishing off his revenge on Tom DeLay and is scared to death of being Nifonged while still in office,” Ms. Flaherty said, a reference to Michael B. Nifong, the disgraced former prosecutor in the Duke University lacrosse team rape case that collapsed as groundless.

Nahum Tate's grandfather and father were both clergymen.