[…] formed a contact with a man, who was the secretary of the tenants' association of a small housing estate in the social worker's patch.

We were pinned down by shellfire. If the artillery hadn't run out of shells to shoot at us we would have been wiped out.

If these plants are young, the weeders do not see them; and in this case, when they grow larger, the land must be again weeded. But the small plants, which are not less prejudicial, such as the wild Fitch, the wild Oat, Darnel, Fennel-flower, Knot-grass, Restharrow, Fox-tail, the several sorts of Bindweed, (Convolvulus) and all the small Poppies, remain in the field.

Everyone is special to someone.