My Governess[…]told him I was continually eating some Trash or other.[…]But this magnified but little with my Father.

A unilateral contract consists of a promise on the part of the offeror and performance of the requisite terms by the offeree.

We had the ponente, or west-wind, all night, but the speronara moved sluggishly, and in the morning it changed to the greco-levante, or north-east.

Of course among lilts so light many are unequal — some, if we may so term them, too pattersome for their subjects ; but if all are not poetry, all are at least verse — a rarer quality in these pretentious days than some imagine.