The occupations showing a considerable number of piece workers were machine stakers, togglers, tackers, buffers, machine setters-out, glazing-machine operators, hand finishers or seasoners, and shaving-machine operators.

The Carthaginians, in the Roman view, were treacherous fellows. Punica fides (Punic faith) became Latin for double-dealing.

That′s why it is infuriating that there are still so many sharks out there who are determined to rip men off with shonky treatments that simply don′t work.

If only you had pulled on the thread of my wool, if you had undone my fabric, mesh by mesh . . . entangled in each one was a temptuous thought and a name I will not forget.