During an Internet hunt, Gasson explained that a “hunter” will sit in front of a computer in any location, visit a Web site that offers hunts for a fee of about $1,500-$2,000 and wait as an animal — often a deer fenced into a small area — is lured into the sights of a remote-controlled gun with Purina Deer Chow.

[Richard] Ingrams has always enjoyed a reputation for insensitivity. As with other columnists in the British press, he treads on toes to make his point and rides roughshod over issues that others handle with kid gloves, or avoid altogether.

The iron rule of the plantation, always passionately and violently enforced in that neighborhood, makes flogging the penalty of failing to be in the field before sunrise in the morning, unless special permission be given to the absenting slave.

How did the common expressions She's a peach! and He has a peach of a job! arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?