In accounting, nonrecurring items are exceptional transactions that are not related to normal business operations. The most common nonrecurring items are capital gains, additional write-downs or reversals of write-downs, and provisions for planned restructuring and penalties.

[The] longer weapon is carried by a narrow bauldric slung over the right shoulder and meeting another cord-shaped band at the breast, in fact suggesting our antiquated cross-belts.

… and when the weather confined me within doors, my pencil and my violin made the time unco shortsome.

a quasi-federalist system