His father, a man of sixty, shorter than Hugh and also pudgier, had aged unappetizingly during his recent widowhood; his things let off a characteristic foresmell, faint but unmistakable, and he grunted and sighed in his sleep, dreaming of large unwieldy blocks of blackness ….

No more stalling. Give me a ballpark figure of our projected losses.

The ampersand character in many logics acts as an operator connecting two propositions.

Then will not this constitution be a kind of mean between aristocracy and oligarchy?