One had never thought of the sea as the great place of safety, but now it came over one that there is no place so safe from the land. When it does not give you trouble it takes it away—takes away letters and telegrams and newspapers and visits and duties and efforts, all the complications, all the superfluities and superstitions that we have stuffed into our terrene life.

After 10 years, a unit price of between 40p-50p could reduce the number of alcohol-related deaths in Wales by 200-250, she said.

SOMEWHERE in the five boroughs of New York City there may be a less appealing view, but this one is certainly a contender for the prize: the vantage point from the profoundly unscenic Roosevelt Island Bridge, on a dank and blustery March night, as you look straight down into the frigid East River.

to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy