The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate.

The imposition of ship money without Parliamentary consent was one of the causes of the English Civil War.

Rabelais's vision is too fundamentally comic for him not to see that a certain kind of humility is not far from gaumlessness.

This time not only is Gooch as fit as a butcher's dog but England, through their efforts at Headingley and Lord's, are mentally attuned to the process of both winning and, crucially in the second match, not losing.