It had taken Water, and the Powder was cak'd as hard as a Stone.

Journalists often point to the truism that the fact that all airplanes that took off today landed safely does not produce reportable news — another way of explaining why a disproportionate amount of what gets reported as news is bad news.

In Catholic doctrine, the virtue of chastity is taken to be the principal foil to everyone's favourite deadly sin, lust.

With thee / Let me combine, / And feel this day thy victorie: / For, if I imp my wing on thine, / Affliction ſhall advance the flight in me.