The function f(x,y)=xy is bilinear, because f(ax+bu,y)=af(x,y)+bf(u,y) and f(x,ay+bv)=af(x,y)+bf(x,v) for all values.

[…] I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.

Her six months as Alasdair’s steady had been an introduction to a world ten thousand miles from the suburban serenity in which she had grown up; a world that took in not just the hot dirty intimacy of the tenement itself, but cafes and pubs and dance-halls and young men who bore scant resemblance to the bland sportsjacketed creatures of her crescent, her church, the library staff parties.

Merseyrail is, in effect, a self-contained network with eight termini. At six of these …, passengers can transfer onto national rail network services.