The synovial membrane may be considered to comprise the innermore of two strata which make up the joint capsule, whose function it is to maintain contact between the articular ends of the bones.

His tactics appealed to the type of Old Bolshevik undergrounder who had little patience with theoretical hairsplitting and who looked to a firm authority to take the lead in practical work.

Its course, still widening, lies across the road which leads from the village to the church, where there must have been of old a ford or a bridge (for the level of the present road has been heightened), and thence along a ravine now partly filled up by a manorway leaving a deep ditch on each side.

This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!