Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.

By Act of Parliament no school is to be kept within two miles of a publick school.

It may be doubtful whether the three species first mentioned should more properly be regarded as archæophytes, since they also occur outside the actually cultivated soil; […]

But Broadway's longtime condescension to rock musicians meant that a generation or two of potential theater composers took its talents elsewhere.