The farmers near the fishing towns in the same district [Cornwall] likewise buy the refuse of bruised and small pilchards, which are rejected as unfit for curing or the market, and are called caff, four cart-loads of twelve bushels each being considered as the quantity proper for an acre. […] The butt-load formerly cost about 9s. or 10s. but they now fetch 15s. or 20s. the load.

As well as being set upon ending faction in politics, the King was also determined to demonstrate to his people that, while his immediate predecessors had cared more for Hanover than for the great country over which they had come to rule, he was, for all his German blood, a true-born Englishman […]

I never realized that he was such a whiner, but he complained steadily about various minor discomforts for the entire road trip.

The fact is that a considerable number of Rembrandt's original coppers are still in material existence, though the greater part of them have been so much deteriorated by wear, and so injured by retouchings and rebitings, as to be artistically valueless.