Renounce all personal pleasures and personal profit. It is all just pennies—or, as my young friend Julia would say, it's a wooden nickel.

For example, the foot is not frequently referred to in studies of rhythmical-metrical organisation of Russian; also, it couldn’t be stated whether the Russian possesses the ïambic or trochaic foots.

He paused, adopting a pensive mien which befitted this fatiloquent observation, and I was transfixed by the thick, almost Neanderthal ridges of bone that took the place of eyebrows on his mondial head.

Taunton station is busy - even more so when the inbound working of my Bristol train arrives, laden with the usual mix of 'staycationers' and locals.