But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: … the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; …

Lindsay Noseworth, the diagnosed gamomaniac, would be hit hardest of all, at no more than the first sidelong smudge of Primula's appearance.

Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v. Tennessee has taken a few years to wend its way to Supreme Court oral argument, and that argument will be keyed to the parties’ objections to the report of a court-appointed special master.

Oh, buggeration. Her fidgety mother had skimmed three oranges off the top of the fruit bowl with her sleeve.