Confirmation is mithraism. So is baptism, only it was blood instead of water. As to the sacrificial meal... Mason put his fingers in his ears.

[W]e had just opened after only 10 cliff‐hanging days in Boston . . . [and] were all doing our first show. The only cool cat among us was the remarkable director, George Abbott, who had been there many times before and looked pleased, proud and relaxed.

In the foregoing example, the set D of the first four letters of the alphabet, was a subset of the set A of all the letters of the alphabet, because A includes all the members of D.

Han-yang is the smallest of the three cities. It was founded about A.D. 600 but, like neighboring Han-k'ou, remained relatively unimportant until the last half of the 19th century.