[H]e was talking about last night’s game and what it would have meant to have this roster last spring. . . . “Shoulda, coulda, woulda” he started. “If ifs and buts were candies and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas, right?”

Nor have we let fall our Pen upon discouragement of Contradiction, Unbelief and Difficulty of disswasion from radicated beliefs ….

The uliginous lacteous Matter, taken notice of by that diligent and ingenious Botaniſt, P[aolo] Boccone, in the Coral Fiſhings upon the Coaſt of Italy, was only a Collection of the Corallin Particles thus ſuſtained in the Sea Water, hovering about and applying it ſelf to the Corallin Shrubs and Pori, for their Growth and Enlargement.

Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order, George told my father, but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the '80s.