A similar term was 'blackthorn winter', which perhaps referred to the frequent cold snaps that occur when the sloes, or blackthorns, flower in late March or April. Blackthorn is a relative of hawthorn but flowers earlier, before it produces foliage. Blackthorn is a common hedgerow tree of chalk and limestone areas, where it seems to thrive better and produce more fruit than on acid or clay soils. But a blackthorn winter may shrivel the flowers in bud or deter bees from pollinating the flowers, ...

After the ion source, the facility uses a Pretzel magnet (Knies et al., 1997a) to act as a unique recombinator to simultaneously transmit from 1 to 200 amu ions but attenuate intense matrix-related beams.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.

Money, mostly. Miss Pamela was over-fond of fine clothes, but Miss Pebmarsh, who was giving 'er a 'ome and daily bread, 'adn't much money to spare for fallalery.