The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.

If (X,𝜏) is a topological space, then a cover ℬ is open if each B∈ℬ is an open set. A topological space (X,𝜏) is compact if every open cover of X has a finite subcover.

Such langwidge, he says, is unbecoming and beneath Me—leastways unless it is remembered in the wages.

that subsisting form of government from which all special laws emanate