a rum idea; a rum fellow

So came they, three hours after noon, to where was a clearing in the woodland, and a long narrow plain some furlong over lay before them,[…], and the wood rose on the other side high and thick, so that the said plain looked even as a wide green highway leading from somewhence to somewhither.

I will first see whether that relation of the friar of Oxford be true, concerning those northern parts under the Pole […] whether there be such four euripes, and a great rock of loadstones, which may cause the needle in the compass still to bend that way […].

The concept of the disproportionate growth between lung size and airway caliber was termed dysanaptic growth by Green and colleagues in 1974 […] This is all physiologically interesting; however, is it clinically important? In this edition of the Journal, Forno and colleagues (pp. 314–323) present a comprehensive study looking at the question of whether airway dysanapsis is associated with asthma morbidity in obese children.