These people regard such changes as hysterical phenomena, and believe that the sudden saints will just as suddenly return to their sinnerhood.

The RESTafarians — or REST zealots — are probably right that a RESTful approach is best for retrieving information, but it is obviously inappropriate whenever the remote procedure call has side effects.

When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

I like to make more than enough food if I have people round for dinner, so I can eat my way through what remains in the following days.