When our artillery came before the walls of the town, the English within the walls killed some of our men, and several pioneers who were making gabions. And seeing they were so wounded that there was no hope of curing them, their comrades stripped them, and put them still living inside the gabions, which served to fill them up.

It is a clear rule of prison guard life, one that is conveyed immediately to recruits, that guards are not ransomable.

Jaleel White first appeared in the ninth episode of the first season as the ultranerdy Steve Urkel, a neighborhood lad whose crush on Laura was unrequited.

Figging is usually considered to indicate a good quality of soft soap, but such is really not the case. A first-class soft soap can be made which will not fig, while, on the other hand, a poor soap can be produced which will fig.