The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

Stern and Karl Bühler noticed independently that a child’s first “No” has a volitional meaning and that the significance as a simple denial of fact appears several months afterwards.

I think I'm as hard as a nur, and as tough as whitleather.

We crawled funereally up the 1 in 100 to Blisworth and reduced speed to not more than 5 m.p.h. round the curve, ….