When he retired from piracy, Uncle Patrice settled down with a woman of mixed Taino and Cimarron ancestry to the less adventurous activity of tobacco ...

The overall climate of the Old Babylonian scribe school was as repressive as that seventeenth to nineteenth century Latin school which inculcated “Latinity” or “Graecity” into the sore backs of future priests and officials.

a scrabble for dear life

Pray that they may be paid by the captain of the ship or the Treasurer of the Navy the said encourageable allowance of wages as well as others, that they may the more cheerfully serve the King, Parliament, and their country.