True, there were a dismaying number of these in Rockland County, and each year brought more as high-rise condominiums and $2 million tract homes were being constructed along the scenic river or gouged out of rolling farmland.

The exceptions were generally applicable to the items of the account to which they referred, and were not dependent on the particular claims of the individual exceptants.

John Doe with gifts was richly blessed; he might have distanced all the rest, had fortune kindly been; but fortune put the kibosh on the efforts of the lackless John, and never won a grin. I wonder why an Edgar Poe found life a wilderness of woe, and starved in garrets bare, while bards who cannot sing for prunes eat costly grub from golden spoons, and purple raiment wear.

Not a few were given to him by the old romancers; but these he has new-fashioned to his needs.