The words straight-hinged or straight-backed are not fully adequate as diagnostic terms, as the former term can be applied to hinges in representatives of most major ostracode groups and the latter is inadequate for many dorsate ostracodes with a straight, long hinge.

By gesture she was pretending and by words and by the scarcely perceptible motionings of her eyelids […]

It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.

This as she donned jeans over the longies.