The area now has an even more impressive web of railway junctions and lines than ever - especially as new stabling sidings have been added to take the pressure of [sic] the cramped Overground depot site at New Cross, which is hemmed in between running lines (…).

A posthumous child is as much entitled to a distributary share, under the statute of distributions, as one that is born at the time of the death of its father […]

Some think of themselves as demisexual, only able to feel attraction when a very strong emotional bond already exists.

Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land did not think it shame, faute de mieux, to take up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced Bobbing Joan, with the rest of the domestics in the servants' hall.